Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Solarpaint Ltd. faces 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This ratio indicates a high degree of concentration, as the count of pending matters exceeds the number of individuals reviewing them.
Specifically, the busiest examiner is GOLDEN, ANDREW J, who manages 4 pending office actions. This means that 4 out of the 5 total pending actions are being handled by one person. Such concentration allows for a more focused prosecution strategy, as the outcomes of the majority of the company's current matters depend on the decisions of a single examiner.
The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the portfolio's technical scope is narrow enough to be handled by a small group of specialists. With only 2 distinct examiners involved, the company has a high likelihood of encountering consistent examination patterns. Practitioners can leverage the concentration under GOLDEN, ANDREW J to streamline responses across the 4 matters he oversees.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (80%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLDEN, ANDREW J | 4 | 43.0% | +38.1% |
| LEBENTRITT, MICHAEL | 1 | 92.2% | +6.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18129865 | Flexible Solar Panels and Photovoltaic Devices, and Methods and Systems of Producing Them | LEBENTRITT, MICHAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18631106 | Flexible Solar Panels Incorporated Within Non-Planar Generally-Rigid Vehicular Components | GOLDEN, ANDREW J | 12d |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18631106 | Flexible Solar Panels Incorporated Within Non-Planar Generally-Rigid Vehicular Components | GOLDEN, ANDREW J | 12d |
| 18586478 | Enhanced Flexible Solar Panels and Photovoltaic Devices, and Methods and Systems for Producing Them | GOLDEN, ANDREW J | 12d |
| 18372720 | Flexible and Rollable Self-Floating and Self-Buoyant Solar Panels and Photovoltaic Devices | GOLDEN, ANDREW J | 39d |
| 18582685 | Solar Panels having an Integral and Internal Metal Foil, Mounted on a Support Substrate with Embedded Wires | GOLDEN, ANDREW J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1726 | 4 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18631106 | Flexible Solar Panels Incorporated Within Non-Planar Generally-Rigid Vehicular Components | GOLDEN, ANDREW J | 1726 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18586478 | Enhanced Flexible Solar Panels and Photovoltaic Devices, and Methods and Systems for Producing Them | GOLDEN, ANDREW J | 1726 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Feb 25, 2024 |
| 18582685 | Solar Panels having an Integral and Internal Metal Foil, Mounted on a Support Substrate with Embedded Wires | GOLDEN, ANDREW J | 1726 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
| 18372720 | Flexible and Rollable Self-Floating and Self-Buoyant Solar Panels and Photovoltaic Devices | GOLDEN, ANDREW J | 1726 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 18129865 | Flexible Solar Panels and Photovoltaic Devices, and Methods and Systems of Producing Them | LEBENTRITT, MICHAEL | 2893 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2023 |
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