Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 2 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tongwei Solar (Chengdu) Co., Ltd. currently manages 8 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio's workload is distributed among 7 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests that the company's prosecution strategy involves many individual examiner interactions rather than a concentrated effort with a single primary contact.
The 8 pending office actions are situated within 2 distinct art units. This concentration indicates a narrow technical focus for the portfolio's current filings, despite the involvement of 7 distinct examiners. For a patent practitioner, this means that while the subject matter is technically similar across cases, the prosecution must be tailored to the styles of many different examiners working within the 2 distinct art units.
TAMIR AYAD is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. This represents the only instance of examiner overlap in the current pending workload, as the remaining actions are each handled by a different distinct examiner. The presence of these actions with TAMIR AYAD provides an opportunity for consistent messaging within that specific examiner's docket.
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 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (88%) |
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% | +47.9% |
| KANG, TAE-SIK | 1 | 58.2% | +27.8% |
| TRINH, THANH TRUC | 1 | 22.1% | +10.8% |
| JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1 | 34.9% | +44.1% |
| CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 1 | 55.7% | +36.9% |
| JEFFERSON, QUOVAUNDA | 1 | 79.3% | +8.7% |
| MUSE, ISMAIL A | 1 | 86.9% | +7.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18725488 | PREPARATION METHOD FOR SOLAR CELL AND SOLAR CELL | MUSE, ISMAIL A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19067075 | PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 4d overdue |
| 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 | — |
| 18725185 | SOLAR CELL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | JEFFERSON, QUOVAUNDA | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19067075 | PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 4d overdue |
| 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 | 4 |
| 1728 | 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 | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19067075 | PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 1726 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19027298 | METAL-SEMICONDUCTOR CONTACT STRUCTURE, SOLAR CELL AND PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE | AYAD, TAMIR | 1726 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18725185 | SOLAR CELL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | JEFFERSON, QUOVAUNDA | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18725488 | PREPARATION METHOD FOR SOLAR CELL AND SOLAR CELL | MUSE, ISMAIL A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
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