Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tandem Pv manages a patent portfolio focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently faces 1 pending office action. This workload is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The limited number of active matters suggests a very specific prosecution strategy. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company does not currently deal with varying examiner styles or different art unit standards. The alignment between the total pending actions and the number of distinct examiners confirms that no examiner is currently handling multiple cases for the firm.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is MILLER, JR, JOSEPH ALBERT. This individual is responsible for 1 pending office action. The figure of 1 busiest examiner pending case matches the total number of pending office actions for the entire portfolio. This indicates that MILLER, JR, JOSEPH ALBERT is the only official currently reviewing the company's applications. The presence of 1 distinct art unit further confirms that the legal arguments and technical disclosures are being evaluated within 1 specialized group at the patent office. This concentration allows for a consistent prosecution narrative but also creates a dependency on the decisions of 1 examiner. Practitioners should note that the lack of diversity in art units simplifies the procedural requirements for these filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLER, JR, JOSEPH ALBERT | 1 | 68.5% | +16.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18477463 | APPLYING A TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE FILM TO FLUORINE-DOPED TIN OXIDE | MILLER, JR, JOSEPH ALBERT | 6d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18477463 | APPLYING A TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE FILM TO FLUORINE-DOPED TIN OXIDE | MILLER, JR, JOSEPH ALBERT | 1712 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialTandem Pv has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jr, Joseph Albert Miller has the most, with 1 of Tandem Pv's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
