Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Solidedge Solution Inc. manages 6 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 6 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating a broad prosecution footprint. JAMES LEE is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. The fact that 6 pending actions are assigned to 6 distinct examiners suggests that no single individual at the patent office has a concentrated influence over the company's current filings.
The prosecution activity is further spread across 4 distinct art units. This indicates that the company's intellectual property in the Chemistry & Materials sector spans several specialized technical groups. For a practitioner, this data implies that prosecution strategies must be tailored to 6 different examiners across 4 separate art units. The lack of examiner overlap means that successful arguments in one case may not necessarily influence the others.
The involvement of 4 distinct art units also suggests that the technical subject matter is diverse enough to be classified under multiple examination categories. JAMES LEE is one of the 6 examiners, and his pending count of 1 represents a small portion of the total workload. This low concentration for the busiest examiner highlights the decentralized nature of the company's current interactions with the patent office. The involvement of 6 distinct examiners for 6 pending office actions indicates a lack of examiner concentration.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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) | 6 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, JAMES | 1 | 74.2% | +19.5% |
| KANG, TAE-SIK | 1 | 58.2% | +27.8% |
| DIGNAN, MICHAEL L | 1 | 58.0% | +16.4% |
| PHILLIPS, SAVANNAH GRACE | 1 | — | — |
| ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 1 | 74.1% | +24.5% |
| ALLEN, JOSHUA L | 1 | 52.1% | +62.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18609919 | HOLE TRANSPORT LAYER, PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, AND PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELL | KANG, TAE-SIK | 4d overdue |
| 18219744 | HORIZONTAL GRINDER ROTOR, GRINDING BEAD DRIVING DEVICE AND HORIZONTAL GRINDER | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 12d |
| 18743159 | LITHIUM-ION BATTERY | LEE, JAMES | — |
| 18386316 | SILICON-CARBON COMPOSITE MATERIAL, PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF AND PREPARATION METHOD OF SILICON-CARBON COMPOSITE SLURRY | DIGNAN, MICHAEL L | — |
| 18243906 | METHOD OF PREPARING LITHIUM-FRIENDLY COLLOID PAINT, LITHIUM-FRIENDLY COLLOID PAINT AND LITHIUM METAL BATTERY NEGATIVE ELECTRODE | PHILLIPS, SAVANNAH GRACE | — |
| 18213855 | FLAME-RETARDANT ELECTROLYTE, PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, AND LITHIUM ION BATTERY | ALLEN, JOSHUA L | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18609919 | HOLE TRANSPORT LAYER, PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, AND PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELL | KANG, TAE-SIK | 4d overdue |
| 18219744 | HORIZONTAL GRINDER ROTOR, GRINDING BEAD DRIVING DEVICE AND HORIZONTAL GRINDER | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 12d |
| 18743159 | LITHIUM-ION BATTERY | LEE, JAMES | — |
| 18386316 | SILICON-CARBON COMPOSITE MATERIAL, PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF AND PREPARATION METHOD OF SILICON-CARBON COMPOSITE SLURRY | DIGNAN, MICHAEL L | — |
| 18213855 | FLAME-RETARDANT ELECTROLYTE, PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, AND LITHIUM ION BATTERY | ALLEN, JOSHUA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1728 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| 1713 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18743159 | LITHIUM-ION BATTERY | LEE, JAMES | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18609919 | HOLE TRANSPORT LAYER, PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, AND PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELL | KANG, TAE-SIK | 1728 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18386316 | SILICON-CARBON COMPOSITE MATERIAL, PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF AND PREPARATION METHOD OF SILICON-CARBON COMPOSITE SLURRY | DIGNAN, MICHAEL L | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
| 18243906 | METHOD OF PREPARING LITHIUM-FRIENDLY COLLOID PAINT, LITHIUM-FRIENDLY COLLOID PAINT AND LITHIUM METAL BATTERY NEGATIVE ELECTRODE | PHILLIPS, SAVANNAH GRACE | 1725 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18219744 | HORIZONTAL GRINDER ROTOR, GRINDING BEAD DRIVING DEVICE AND HORIZONTAL GRINDER | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 3725 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
| 18213855 | FLAME-RETARDANT ELECTROLYTE, PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, AND LITHIUM ION BATTERY | ALLEN, JOSHUA L | 1713 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2023 |
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