Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Voltagrid LLC is currently processing 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, ensuring a diverse perspective across the pending portfolio. This arrangement means that the company's success in this technology area is not tied to the decision-making of a single individual, but rather distributed across multiple reviewers. For the practitioner, this requires managing two separate prosecution tracks, each with its own set of examiner tendencies.
The matters are split across 2 distinct art units. VORTMAN, ANATOLY is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that the company's 2 pending cases are technically distinct enough to be assigned to different administrative units and different examiners. This lack of concentration across art units suggests a broader technical scope for the company's current innovation, requiring a flexible approach to prosecution that accounts for the different standards and procedures of two separate technical divisions within the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VORTMAN, ANATOLY | 1 | 69.9% | +13.8% |
| SHIAO, DAVID A | 1 | 75.5% | +30.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18635326 | COMMON BUS SWITCHGEAR FOR MOBILE HYBRID MICRO-GRIDS | VORTMAN, ANATOLY | 14d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17748543 | COORDINATED GENERATION, TRANSMISSION, AND UTILIZATION OF ELECTRIC POWER AMONG GEOGRAPHICALLY REMOTE LOCATIONS | SHIAO, DAVID A | 139d overdue |
| 18635326 | COMMON BUS SWITCHGEAR FOR MOBILE HYBRID MICRO-GRIDS | VORTMAN, ANATOLY | 14d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2835 | 1 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18635326 | COMMON BUS SWITCHGEAR FOR MOBILE HYBRID MICRO-GRIDS | VORTMAN, ANATOLY | 2835 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 17748543 | COORDINATED GENERATION, TRANSMISSION, AND UTILIZATION OF ELECTRIC POWER AMONG GEOGRAPHICALLY REMOTE LOCATIONS | SHIAO, DAVID A | 2836 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 139d overdue | Pending | May 19, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialVoltagrid LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Anatoly Vortman has the most, with 1 of Voltagrid LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
