Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tongwei Solar (Meishan) Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a focus on specific solar-related technologies. The company is working with 3 distinct examiners. CRAWFORD EASON, LATANYA N is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 pending office actions and the examiners are distinct, each case is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution across 2 distinct art units and 3 distinct examiners suggests that the company's current prosecution is spread among multiple examiners.
Practitioners should note that with 3 pending office actions and the examiners, the company must manage separate relationships and prosecution styles. The 2 distinct art units involved further show that the company's work spans different specialized areas of semiconductors and optics. This structure means that the success of the portfolio is not dependent on any single examiner like CRAWFORD EASON, LATANYA N. Instead, it requires a strategy that can adapt to the varied requirements of 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This level of dispersion is common for a company with focused but technically distinct interests in the solar technology sector, with 1 pending office action per examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRAWFORD EASON, LATANYA N | 1 | 78.5% | +0.4% |
| HO, TU TU V | 1 | 93.6% | +5.2% |
| NICELY, JOSEPH C | 1 | 77.7% | +19.9% |
| CAMPBELL, SHAUN M | 1 | 72.9% | +8.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18714992 | SOLAR CELL, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR AND BATTERY ASSEMBLY | HO, TU TU V | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18697212 | BIFACIAL SOLAR CELL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | NICELY, JOSEPH C | 15d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2813 | 2 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18852182 | SOLAR CELL, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND APPLICATION THEREOF | CRAWFORD EASON, LATANYA N | 2813 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18714992 | SOLAR CELL, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR AND BATTERY ASSEMBLY | HO, TU TU V | 2818 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18697212 | BIFACIAL SOLAR CELL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | NICELY, JOSEPH C | 2813 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18573511 | PASSIVATED CONTACT BATTERY AND PREPARATION PROCESS THEREFOR | CAMPBELL, SHAUN M | 2893 | §103 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free TrialTongwei Solar (Meishan) Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Latanya N Crawford Eason has the most, with 1 of Tongwei Solar (Meishan) Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
