Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Xcel Energy Inc. holds a company patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently has 3 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, with each examiner handling a single pending matter. This 1-to-1 ratio between actions and examiners indicates a decentralized review process. The presence of 3 pending office actions suggests a steady level of prosecution activity for the company's mechanical and transportation technologies.
The workload is situated within 3 distinct art units, indicating a broad technical distribution for the pending applications. AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN is identified as the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This structure shows that the 3 pending office actions are being reviewed by a diverse group of examiners across multiple art units. For the practitioner, this means that each of the 3 pending office actions is likely to face a unique set of technical challenges and examiner expectations, as there is no overlap in examiners or art units for the current pending workload.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (67%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | 1 | 80.6% | +19.7% |
| TRUONG, BENJAMIN LY | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S | 1 | 42.2% | +54.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18905437 | TRIPPING ENERGY LOADS DURING UNDER-FREQUENCY EVENTS BASED ON DECELERATION OF RATE OF CHANGE OF FREQUENCY | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18660572 | EVENT LEARNING AND OPERATIONAL RISK ASSESSMENT FOR ASSET PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S | 8d |
| 18762853 | ELECTRONIC AND COMPUTER-BASED EMERGENCY OPERATING PROCEDURES FOR REGULATED FACILITIES | TRUONG, BENJAMIN LY | 16d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18660572 | EVENT LEARNING AND OPERATIONAL RISK ASSESSMENT FOR ASSET PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S | 8d |
| 18905437 | TRIPPING ENERGY LOADS DURING UNDER-FREQUENCY EVENTS BASED ON DECELERATION OF RATE OF CHANGE OF FREQUENCY | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 1 |
| 3626 | 1 |
| 3623 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18905437 | TRIPPING ENERGY LOADS DURING UNDER-FREQUENCY EVENTS BASED ON DECELERATION OF RATE OF CHANGE OF FREQUENCY | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | 2838 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18762853 | ELECTRONIC AND COMPUTER-BASED EMERGENCY OPERATING PROCEDURES FOR REGULATED FACILITIES | TRUONG, BENJAMIN LY | 3626 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18660572 | EVENT LEARNING AND OPERATIONAL RISK ASSESSMENT FOR ASSET PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S | 3623 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
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