Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tongwei Solar (Meishan) Co. Ltd. is currently managing 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. All of these actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a very high degree of technical consistency in the company's current patent filings. Despite this concentration, the cases are assigned to 3 distinct examiners.
LATANYA N CRAWFORD EASON is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing a pending office action. Since there are pending office actions and multiple examiners, the workload is evenly distributed among the assigned officials. This arrangement allows the company to receive feedback from multiple examiners while remaining within the specialized environment of a single art unit. The 1 distinct art unit represents a focused effort within the semiconductor field. This strategy balances technical specialization with examiner diversity.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 | 78.4% | +0.4% |
| HO, TU TU V | 1 | 93.6% | +5.2% |
| NICELY, JOSEPH C | 1 | 77.7% | +19.8% |
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 |
| 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 | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18697212 | BIFACIAL SOLAR CELL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | NICELY, JOSEPH C | 2813 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
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