Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE is active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 7 pending office actions. These 7 pending actions are distributed among 7 distinct examiners, which means the number of examiners is equal to the total number of pending office actions. This distribution indicates that each examiner is responsible for an individual pending matter within the company's current workload. The company's prosecution efforts are spread across 4 distinct art units, which is a lower count than the 7 distinct examiners involved.
SON, TAEYOUNG is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 1 pending office action. This count of 1 is lower than the total of 7 pending office actions across the entire portfolio. Because the busiest examiner only handles 1 pending action, the workload is spread among the examiners. This lack of concentration means that the company's overall prosecution progress is not determined by any individual examiner's review. The presence of 4 distinct art units shows that the company's chemical and material applications are being evaluated by multiple specialized groups at the patent office.
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 | 3 (43%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SON, TAEYOUNG | 1 | 45.7% | +34.0% |
| SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH | 1 | 54.3% | +50.0% |
| LEE, JOHN | 1 | 30.0% | +39.6% |
| SORKIN, DAVID L | 1 | 67.4% | +12.8% |
| SMITH, CATHERINE P | 1 | 15.8% | +16.1% |
| FAN, LYNN Y | 1 | 47.3% | +49.5% |
| KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | 1 | 20.8% | +95.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17741825 | DIMETHYLMERCURY PERMEATION DEVICE AND FORMATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF | KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | 35d overdue |
| 18331395 | NANO-AMENDED CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS FOR WASTE STABILIZATION | SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH | 26d |
| 18174002 | SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS FOR DISPERSING PARTICLES IN A FLUID OF A FLUID CONTAINER | SORKIN, DAVID L | 26d |
| 17974791 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BUILDING THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS IN A CYLINDRICAL COORDINATE SYSTEM USING POWDER-BASED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES | SMITH, CATHERINE P | 33d |
| 18340994 | PLASMONIC PHOTOELECTRODES FOR PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL REDOX FLOW BATTERIES | SON, TAEYOUNG | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17741825 | DIMETHYLMERCURY PERMEATION DEVICE AND FORMATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF | KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | 35d overdue |
| 18331395 | NANO-AMENDED CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS FOR WASTE STABILIZATION | SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH | 26d |
| 18174002 | SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS FOR DISPERSING PARTICLES IN A FLUID OF A FLUID CONTAINER | SORKIN, DAVID L | 26d |
| 17974791 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BUILDING THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS IN A CYLINDRICAL COORDINATE SYSTEM USING POWDER-BASED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES | SMITH, CATHERINE P | 33d |
| 18340994 | PLASMONIC PHOTOELECTRODES FOR PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL REDOX FLOW BATTERIES | SON, TAEYOUNG | — |
| 18330512 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CRYSTALLIZED ALUMINUM HYDRIDE | LEE, JOHN | — |
| 17855141 | POROUS GLASS-BASED MICROBIAL STORAGE AND DELIVERY SYSTEM | FAN, LYNN Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 2 |
| 1774 | 2 |
| 1751 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18340994 | PLASMONIC PHOTOELECTRODES FOR PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL REDOX FLOW BATTERIES | SON, TAEYOUNG | 1751 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2023 |
| 18331395 | NANO-AMENDED CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS FOR WASTE STABILIZATION | SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH | 1735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
| 18330512 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CRYSTALLIZED ALUMINUM HYDRIDE | LEE, JOHN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 18174002 | SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS FOR DISPERSING PARTICLES IN A FLUID OF A FLUID CONTAINER | SORKIN, DAVID L | 1774 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
| 17974791 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BUILDING THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS IN A CYLINDRICAL COORDINATE SYSTEM USING POWDER-BASED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES | SMITH, CATHERINE P | 1735 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
| 17855141 | POROUS GLASS-BASED MICROBIAL STORAGE AND DELIVERY SYSTEM | FAN, LYNN Y | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2022 |
| 17741825 | DIMETHYLMERCURY PERMEATION DEVICE AND FORMATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF | KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | 1774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | May 11, 2022 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial