Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Électricité de France maintains 7 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This portfolio shows examiner diversity, with 7 distinct examiners assigned to the pending actions. The matters are spread across 5 distinct art units, reflecting a distribution of technical subject matter within the sector. This variety in art units suggests that the pending office actions cover several different sub-specialties.
The busiest examiner, SUN, MICHAEL Y, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because each examiner handles exactly 1 action, the workload is distributed evenly across the individual examiners. This lack of concentration suggests that prosecution outcomes will depend on a wide range of individual examiner preferences across the 5 distinct art units. Practitioners should prepare for different sets of examiner behaviors, as no single examiner dominates the current portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 3 (43%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUN, MICHAEL Y | 1 | 57.1% | +26.5% |
| FIGUEROA, JOHN J | 1 | 83.2% | +8.7% |
| DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | 1 | 44.8% | +47.2% |
| HANYON, SAMANTHA LEE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| PARK, HYUN D | 1 | 41.7% | +22.8% |
| LOPEZ ALVAREZ, OLVIN | 1 | 48.9% | +43.3% |
| KOTOWSKI, LISA MICHELLE | 1 | 46.4% | +47.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18702559 | CYCLIC AMINE MONOAMIDES FOR EXTRACTING URANIUM(VI) AND PLUTONIUM(IV) AND FOR SEPARATING THEM WITHOUT REDUCING PLUTONIUM(IV) | FIGUEROA, JOHN J | — |
| 18526521 | Reversible System Comprising A Reversible Fuel Cell And A Metal Hydride Storage Device | HANYON, SAMANTHA LEE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18384671 | Method For Non-Destructive Testing Of A Plurality Of Components | PARK, HYUN D | 3d overdue |
| 18948953 | SELF-REPAIRING MULTI-JUNCTION PHOTOVOLTAIC ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR SELF-REPAIRING SUCH AN ASSEMBLY | SUN, MICHAEL Y | — |
| 18071185 | Method For Driving The Charging And Discharging Of A Plurality Of Electrical Energy Storage Devices | KOTOWSKI, LISA MICHELLE | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18384671 | Method For Non-Destructive Testing Of A Plurality Of Components | PARK, HYUN D | 3d overdue |
| 18948953 | SELF-REPAIRING MULTI-JUNCTION PHOTOVOLTAIC ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR SELF-REPAIRING SUCH AN ASSEMBLY | SUN, MICHAEL Y | — |
| 18686267 | Protective Suit Comprising Removal Openings | DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | — |
| 18184156 | COORDINATED MANAGEMENT OF AN AGGREGATE TO PROVIDE PRIMARY FREQUENCY CONTROL | LOPEZ ALVAREZ, OLVIN | — |
| 18071185 | Method For Driving The Charging And Discharging Of A Plurality Of Electrical Energy Storage Devices | KOTOWSKI, LISA MICHELLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1728 | 1 |
| 3732 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2117 | 1 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18948953 | SELF-REPAIRING MULTI-JUNCTION PHOTOVOLTAIC ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR SELF-REPAIRING SUCH AN ASSEMBLY | SUN, MICHAEL Y | 1728 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18702559 | CYCLIC AMINE MONOAMIDES FOR EXTRACTING URANIUM(VI) AND PLUTONIUM(IV) AND FOR SEPARATING THEM WITHOUT REDUCING PLUTONIUM(IV) | FIGUEROA, JOHN J | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18686267 | Protective Suit Comprising Removal Openings | DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18526521 | Reversible System Comprising A Reversible Fuel Cell And A Metal Hydride Storage Device | HANYON, SAMANTHA LEE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18384671 | Method For Non-Destructive Testing Of A Plurality Of Components | PARK, HYUN D | 2857 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 18184156 | COORDINATED MANAGEMENT OF AN AGGREGATE TO PROVIDE PRIMARY FREQUENCY CONTROL | LOPEZ ALVAREZ, OLVIN | 2117 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2023 |
| 18071185 | Method For Driving The Charging And Discharging Of A Plurality Of Electrical Energy Storage Devices | KOTOWSKI, LISA MICHELLE | 2859 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2022 |
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