Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 1 client • 6 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
MacMillan, Sobanski and Todd, LLC - FIRST SOLAR has 6 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials and 362 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 94.85%, with an average of 4.64 office actions per allowance.
The profile records a defined application base and active prosecution matters. The allowance rate describes resolved outcomes, while the office-action average indicates more examination activity per allowance within the reported record. Practitioners can use these measures to assess both results and response intensity.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (17%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOWLA, GOLAM | 1 | 62.1% | +28.0% |
| BUCK, LINDSEY A | 1 | 49.4% | +34.3% |
| WHITE, SADIE | 1 | 49.3% | +31.2% |
| PILLAY, DEVINA | 1 | 44.4% | +25.5% |
| LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 1 | 56.4% | +19.8% |
| TRINH, THANH TRUC | 1 | 22.1% | +10.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18708334 | Materials and Methods for Tandem Photovoltaic Devices | PILLAY, DEVINA | 78d overdue |
| 18399028 | Photovoltaic Devices and Methods for Producing Devices Using Perovskite Materials | TRINH, THANH TRUC | 41d |
| 19023233 | Photovoltaic Devices and Method of Making | MOWLA, GOLAM | 56d |
| 18628285 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VAPORIZATION AND VAPOR DISTRIBUTION | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18708334 | Materials and Methods for Tandem Photovoltaic Devices | PILLAY, DEVINA | 78d overdue |
| 18914841 | Buffer Layers for Photovoltaic Devices with Group V Doping | BUCK, LINDSEY A | 38d overdue |
| 18399028 | Photovoltaic Devices and Methods for Producing Devices Using Perovskite Materials | TRINH, THANH TRUC | 41d |
| 19023233 | Photovoltaic Devices and Method of Making | MOWLA, GOLAM | 56d |
| 18825810 | LAYER STRUCTURES FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES AND PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES INCLUDING THE SAME | WHITE, SADIE | — |
| 18628285 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VAPORIZATION AND VAPOR DISTRIBUTION | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| First Solar | 6 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1721 | 2 |
| 1726 | 2 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19023233 | Photovoltaic Devices and Method of Making | First Solar, Inc. | MOWLA, GOLAM | 1721 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18914841 | Buffer Layers for Photovoltaic Devices with Group V Doping | First Solar, Inc. | BUCK, LINDSEY A | 1728 | DP | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18825810 | LAYER STRUCTURES FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES AND PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES INCLUDING THE SAME | First Solar, Inc. | WHITE, SADIE | 1721 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18708334 | Materials and Methods for Tandem Photovoltaic Devices | First Solar, Inc. | PILLAY, DEVINA | 1726 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 78d overdue | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18628285 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VAPORIZATION AND VAPOR DISTRIBUTION | First Solar, Inc. | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 1717 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18399028 | Photovoltaic Devices and Methods for Producing Devices Using Perovskite Materials | First Solar, Inc. | TRINH, THANH TRUC | 1726 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial94.8% of resolved applications prosecuted by Macmillan, Sobanski And Todd, LLC - First Solar were allowed, across 362 applications in USPTO records.
4.64 office actions per allowed application on average.
6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 6 examiners in 4 art units.
