Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Aesc Japan Ltd.

17 pending office actions • 12 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

17
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
3
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (3)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
16
Medium (94%)
1
Easy (6%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only12 (71%)
§102 only4 (24%)
§112 only1 (6%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

17
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

170 h
Manual time on pending OAs
34 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
59 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE 2 68.7% +29.7%
PEREZ, JELITZA M 1 75.3% +29.0%
GUPTA, SARIKA 1 74.4% +21.7%
HEMINGWAY, TIMOTHY G 1 41.7% +18.5%
ERWIN, JAMES M 1 82.2% +6.0%
LEE, DANIEL H. 1 70.5% +25.6%
RASSOULI, LILI 1
NEWMAN, DREW C 1 42.4% +34.3%
LIANG, JACKIE 1
MARROQUIN, DOUGLAS C 1 50.0% +75.0%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18355137 BATTERY CELL ERWIN, JAMES M 5d

Interview Candidates (8)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18086621 BATTERY, BATTERY ASSEMBLY AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE 45d overdue
18176803 NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERIES AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING SAME MARROQUIN, DOUGLAS C 37d overdue
17978084 CURRENT COLLECTING MEMBER, CELL AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE 4d overdue
18358416 BATTERY CELL GUPTA, SARIKA 28d
18303583 CYLINDRICAL CELL AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE NEWMAN, DREW C 33d
18316202 CELL AND ELECTRICAL APPARATUS COMPRISING THE CELL LEE, DANIEL H. 55d
18488023 POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS PEREZ, JELITZA M 62d
18357652 BATTERY CELL HEMINGWAY, TIMOTHY G 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1725 3
1729 2
1723 2
1721 2
1774 1
1754 1
1746 1
1728 1
1751 1
1726 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18488023 POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS PEREZ, JELITZA M 1774 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Oct 16, 2023
18358416 BATTERY CELL GUPTA, SARIKA 1729 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jul 25, 2023
18357652 BATTERY CELL HEMINGWAY, TIMOTHY G 1754 §102 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jul 24, 2023
18355137 BATTERY CELL ERWIN, JAMES M 1725 §102 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Jul 19, 2023
18316202 CELL AND ELECTRICAL APPARATUS COMPRISING THE CELL LEE, DANIEL H. 1746 §112 Final Rejection 55d Pending May 11, 2023
18314152 BATTERY PACK RASSOULI, LILI 1728 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending May 09, 2023
18303583 CYLINDRICAL CELL AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE NEWMAN, DREW C 1751 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Apr 20, 2023
18303562 BUSBAR ASSEMBLY AND CELL MODULE LIANG, JACKIE 1726 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Apr 19, 2023
18176803 NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERIES AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING SAME MARROQUIN, DOUGLAS C 1723 §103 Final Rejection 37d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2023
18169164 BATTERY PACK OROZCO, MARIA F 1729 §103 Final Rejection 196d overdue Pending Feb 14, 2023
18086674 BATTERY CHAN, HENG M 1725 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2022
18086621 BATTERY, BATTERY ASSEMBLY AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE 1721 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2022
18009991 ELECTROLYTE AND ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE THEREOF AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE OTERO, KENNETH MAX 1725 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Dec 13, 2022
17990732 CURRENT COLLECTING MEMBER, BATTERY AND BATTERY MANUFACTURING METHOD WYROUGH, PAUL CHRISTIAN ST 1723 §102 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Nov 20, 2022
17988770 ELECTROLYTE, ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF JACOBSON, SARAH JORDAN 1785 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Nov 17, 2022
17987785 ELECTRODE SHEET AND ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE BLACKWELL-RUDASIL, RYAN KENZIE 1722 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2022
17978084 CURRENT COLLECTING MEMBER, CELL AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE 1721 §102 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Oct 31, 2022

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