Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Terrasmart Inc. maintains 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 2 actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, including DINH, BACH T, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending case. This distribution shows that the workload is split evenly, with each examiner managing 1 matter.
The portfolio is spread across 2 distinct art units, matching the number of 2 distinct examiners and 2 pending office actions. This indicates a technical footprint that is as wide as the number of cases. With 2 pending office actions in 2 different art units, the company must adapt its prosecution strategy to the specific standards of two different technical groups within the patent office. Practitioners should prepare for 2 distinct examiner interactions across these 2 distinct art units in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DINH, BACH T | 1 | 55.4% | +31.3% |
| SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | 1 | 74.1% | +28.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18286963 | STRUCTURAL GUTTER SYSTEM FOR SOLAR PANEL ARRAY | SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | 72d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18438975 | SOLAR MOUNTING SYSTEM HAVING INTEGRATED ELECTRICAL BONDING AND GROUNDING OF PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES | DINH, BACH T | 128d overdue |
| 18286963 | STRUCTURAL GUTTER SYSTEM FOR SOLAR PANEL ARRAY | SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | 72d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1726 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18438975 | SOLAR MOUNTING SYSTEM HAVING INTEGRATED ELECTRICAL BONDING AND GROUNDING OF PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES | DINH, BACH T | 1726 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 128d overdue | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18286963 | STRUCTURAL GUTTER SYSTEM FOR SOLAR PANEL ARRAY | SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | 3762 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 72d overdue | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
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