Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
W L French Hydropower Holdings LLC has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are split across 2 distinct art units, indicating some technical breadth within this sector. The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners, so each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution across 3 distinct examiners requires the company to manage three separate examiner relationships.
The busiest examiner is TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 3 pending actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly distributed. The company must manage 3 separate examiner relationships across 2 distinct art units, requiring a strategy that accounts for the specific feedback of each individual examiner. Practitioners should note that each of the 3 pending office actions is being handled by a unique examiner, which may lead to different prosecution outcomes across the 2 distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 1 | 70.1% | +32.2% |
| NGUYEN, VIET P | 1 | 61.4% | +30.6% |
| FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 1 | 73.9% | +7.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19281549 | Dam with Contaminants Entombing Cap | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | — |
| 18961377 | MODULAR PRECAST PUMPED STORAGE HYDRO SYSTEM FOR POWER GENERATION | FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19043414 | MODULAR HYDROPOWER SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH PUMPED STORAGE | NGUYEN, VIET P | 87d overdue |
| 19281549 | Dam with Contaminants Entombing Cap | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3678 | 2 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19281549 | Dam with Contaminants Entombing Cap | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 3678 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19043414 | MODULAR HYDROPOWER SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH PUMPED STORAGE | NGUYEN, VIET P | 2834 | §103 | Final Rejection | 87d overdue | Pending | Feb 01, 2025 |
| 18961377 | MODULAR PRECAST PUMPED STORAGE HYDRO SYSTEM FOR POWER GENERATION | FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 3678 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
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