Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
9 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aph Epower Co. Ltd. currently has 9 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 7 distinct art units, indicating a range of chemical and material science applications. The company interacts with 8 distinct examiners for these 9 pending matters. Patrick Marshall Greene is the busiest examiner, handling 2 pending office actions.
The remaining actions are each assigned to a different examiner. This high number of 7 distinct art units relative to 9 pending actions suggests that the company's technology is spread across many specialized sub-fields. With 8 distinct examiners involved, the company must manage a variety of examiner styles. Patrick Marshall Greene manages 2 of the active cases. The number of examiners is higher than the 7 distinct art units involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (22%) |
| §103 only | 6 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GREENE, PATRICK MARSHALL | 2 | 70.4% | +25.0% |
| LY, XUAN | 1 | 85.4% | +6.4% |
| MOLNAR, HUNTER A | 1 | 50.6% | +33.1% |
| WALLICK, STEPHANIE SHOSHANA | 1 | 29.3% | +37.6% |
| LUSTGRAAF, BENJAMIN T | 1 | 58.3% | +21.4% |
| YOON, KEVIN E | 1 | 59.6% | +42.8% |
| PARK, LISA S | 1 | 77.4% | +22.3% |
| MERKLING, MATTHEW J | 1 | 68.3% | +13.1% |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19004431 | CARBON EMISSION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF | MOLNAR, HUNTER A | 33d |
| 18979599 | CARBON EMISSION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF | WALLICK, STEPHANIE SHOSHANA | — |
| 18764321 | ALUMINUM BATTERY | GREENE, PATRICK MARSHALL | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18327070 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE STRUCTURE APPLIED TO ALUMINUM BATTERY | LUSTGRAAF, BENJAMIN T | 8d |
| 19004431 | CARBON EMISSION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF | MOLNAR, HUNTER A | 33d |
| 17978985 | ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE MADE OF ALLUMINUM ELECTRODE | MERKLING, MATTHEW J | 34d |
| 18979599 | CARBON EMISSION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF | WALLICK, STEPHANIE SHOSHANA | — |
| 18764321 | ALUMINUM BATTERY | GREENE, PATRICK MARSHALL | — |
| 18326009 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE STRUCTURE APPLIED TO ALUMINUM BATTERY | YOON, KEVIN E | — |
| 18326001 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE STRUCTURE OF ALUMINUM BATTERY | PARK, LISA S | — |
| 17979722 | ALLUMINUM BATTERY | GREENE, PATRICK MARSHALL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3628 | 2 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1729 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| 1724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19277341 | POWER CONVERSION DEVICE | LY, XUAN | 2836 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 |
| 19004431 | CARBON EMISSION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF | MOLNAR, HUNTER A | 3628 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Dec 29, 2024 |
| 18979599 | CARBON EMISSION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF | WALLICK, STEPHANIE SHOSHANA | 3628 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18764321 | ALUMINUM BATTERY | GREENE, PATRICK MARSHALL | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 04, 2024 |
| 18327070 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE STRUCTURE APPLIED TO ALUMINUM BATTERY | LUSTGRAAF, BENJAMIN T | 1727 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Jun 01, 2023 |
| 18326009 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE STRUCTURE APPLIED TO ALUMINUM BATTERY | YOON, KEVIN E | 1735 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
| 18326001 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE STRUCTURE OF ALUMINUM BATTERY | PARK, LISA S | 1729 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
| 17978985 | ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE MADE OF ALLUMINUM ELECTRODE | MERKLING, MATTHEW J | 1725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Nov 02, 2022 |
| 17979722 | ALLUMINUM BATTERY | GREENE, PATRICK MARSHALL | 1724 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2022 |
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