Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Solarlab Aiko Europe GmbH currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. The focused nature of this portfolio suggests a highly specific prosecution track for the company's current filings, with no diversification across different technical groups at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is WHITE, SADIE, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently on record. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the prosecution strategy remains concentrated under a single point of review. This lack of examiner variety means that the company's immediate patenting success in this area is entirely dependent on the specific requirements and interpretations of WHITE, SADIE.
Operating within 1 distinct art unit further simplifies the administrative landscape for the company. While this concentration reduces the complexity of managing multiple office actions, it also means the company does not currently benefit from the varied perspectives that multiple art units might provide. Practitioners should focus on the specific tendencies of the assigned examiner to navigate the pending matter effectively.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHITE, SADIE | 1 | 48.8% | +31.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18846195 | Conductive Contact Structure of Solar Cell, Solar Module, and Solar Cell | WHITE, SADIE | 78d |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18846195 | Conductive Contact Structure of Solar Cell, Solar Module, and Solar Cell | WHITE, SADIE | 78d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1721 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18846195 | Conductive Contact Structure of Solar Cell, Solar Module, and Solar Cell | WHITE, SADIE | 1721 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 78d | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
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