Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Structural Solar Designs LLC currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to examiner NGUYEN, NGOC T, who serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending matter. The concentration of work under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a highly focused prosecution strategy. For a practitioner, this narrow distribution means that the outcome of the entire pending portfolio depends on a single individual's interpretation of the prior art. There is no internal baseline for comparing examiner behavior across different units or individuals within this specific company profile.
The presence of only 1 pending office action indicates a low volume of active disputes at the patent office. This centralization in 1 distinct art unit simplifies the administrative tracking of the portfolio but increases the impact of any single examiner's specific preferences or procedural requirements. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of NGUYEN, NGOC T, as there are no other examiners currently handling pending matters for this company. The focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering suggests that the technical arguments will likely involve physical structures or mechanical components. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company has a very streamlined presence in the current patent landscape.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, NGOC T | 1 | 83.7% | +19.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18653199 | ENCASEMENT SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATION OF SOLAR DEVICES INTO A STRUCTURE AND SOLAR DEVICES FOR USE IN THE SAME | NGUYEN, NGOC T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18653199 | ENCASEMENT SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATION OF SOLAR DEVICES INTO A STRUCTURE AND SOLAR DEVICES FOR USE IN THE SAME | NGUYEN, NGOC T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18653199 | ENCASEMENT SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATION OF SOLAR DEVICES INTO A STRUCTURE AND SOLAR DEVICES FOR USE IN THE SAME | NGUYEN, NGOC T | 3799 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialStructural Solar Designs LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ngoc T Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Structural Solar Designs LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
