Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zhejiang Aiko Solar Energy Technology Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action. This matter involves 1 distinct examiner and 0 distinct art units. CHRISTINA CHERN is the busiest examiner. The company's current patent activity is limited to this single filing, making the interaction with examiner CHRISTINA CHERN the central focus of its current patent prosecution.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHERN, CHRISTINA | 1 | 39.1% | +41.3% |
| GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 1 | 54.7% | +13.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19299623 | SOLAR CELL, CELL ASSEMBLY, AND PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM | CHERN, CHRISTINA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19018332 | DOPED REGION STRUCTURE AND SOLAR CELL COMPRISING THE SAME, CELL ASSEMBLY, AND PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 55d |
| 19299623 | SOLAR CELL, CELL ASSEMBLY, AND PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM | CHERN, CHRISTINA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1721 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19299623 | SOLAR CELL, CELL ASSEMBLY, AND PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM | CHERN, CHRISTINA | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19018332 | DOPED REGION STRUCTURE AND SOLAR CELL COMPRISING THE SAME, CELL ASSEMBLY, AND PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 1721 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
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