Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tongwei Solar (Chengdu) Co., Ltd. has 6 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating a portfolio with some repeated examiner and art-unit assignments.
AYAD, TAMIR is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That relationship is the clearest opportunity for coordinated response planning, while the remaining assignments call for examiner-specific analysis within the broader chemistry and materials practice.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AYAD, TAMIR | 2 | 42.3% | +48.1% |
| KANG, TAE-SIK | 1 | 58.5% | +27.7% |
| TRINH, THANH TRUC | 1 | 22.1% | +10.9% |
| JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1 | 34.8% | +44.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19223095 | SOLAR CELL, SOLAR CELL STRING, AND PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE | KANG, TAE-SIK | 12d |
| 19214654 | SOLAR CELL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE | AYAD, TAMIR | — |
| 19194917 | IBC SOLAR CELL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE, AND POWER GENERATION DEVICE | TRINH, THANH TRUC | — |
| 19073940 | COMPOSITE ADHESIVE FILM, METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME, AND PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | — |
| 19027298 | METAL-SEMICONDUCTOR CONTACT STRUCTURE, SOLAR CELL AND PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE | AYAD, TAMIR | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19223095 | SOLAR CELL, SOLAR CELL STRING, AND PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE | KANG, TAE-SIK | 12d |
| 19214654 | SOLAR CELL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE | AYAD, TAMIR | — |
| 19194917 | IBC SOLAR CELL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE, AND POWER GENERATION DEVICE | TRINH, THANH TRUC | — |
| 19073940 | COMPOSITE ADHESIVE FILM, METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME, AND PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | — |
| 19027298 | METAL-SEMICONDUCTOR CONTACT STRUCTURE, SOLAR CELL AND PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE | AYAD, TAMIR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1726 | 3 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19223095 | SOLAR CELL, SOLAR CELL STRING, AND PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE | KANG, TAE-SIK | 1728 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19214654 | SOLAR CELL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE | AYAD, TAMIR | 1726 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 21, 2025 |
| 19194917 | IBC SOLAR CELL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE, AND POWER GENERATION DEVICE | TRINH, THANH TRUC | 1726 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 19073940 | COMPOSITE ADHESIVE FILM, METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME, AND PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1787 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19027298 | METAL-SEMICONDUCTOR CONTACT STRUCTURE, SOLAR CELL AND PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE | AYAD, TAMIR | 1726 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialTongwei Solar (Chengdu) Co., Ltd. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Tamir Ayad has the most, with 2 of Tongwei Solar (Chengdu) Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
