Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Berzelius (Hefei) Co. Ltd. currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and several distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's patenting efforts are spread across different technical or administrative divisions within the USPTO. With multiple distinct examiners assigned to the pending actions, the company faces different perspectives and requirements for each active matter.
The busiest examiner, EGGERDING, ALIX ECHELMEYER, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This is one of the 2 total pending office actions currently active for the company. Because the pending actions are handled by different examiners, the company must manage multiple separate examiner relationships. The involvement of distinct art units further suggests that the prosecution strategy must account for varying standards across these divisions. This structure indicates a portfolio where each active matter is being handled in a unique administrative environment. Practitioners should focus on the 1 busiest examiner pending action to ensure progress in that specific art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EGGERDING, ALIX ECHELMEYER | 1 | 57.4% | +17.9% |
| HA, STEVEN S | 1 | 70.2% | +30.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18253456 | SILICON-BASED PARTICLE WITH CORE-SHELL STRUCTURE, METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME, ANODE MATERIAL, ELECTRODE AND BATTERY | EGGERDING, ALIX ECHELMEYER | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17780636 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL USED FOR BATTERY AND METHOD FOR FABRICATION THEREOF, AND BATTERY NEGATIVE ELECTRODE AND BATTERY | HA, STEVEN S | 33d |
| 18253456 | SILICON-BASED PARTICLE WITH CORE-SHELL STRUCTURE, METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME, ANODE MATERIAL, ELECTRODE AND BATTERY | EGGERDING, ALIX ECHELMEYER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1729 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18253456 | SILICON-BASED PARTICLE WITH CORE-SHELL STRUCTURE, METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME, ANODE MATERIAL, ELECTRODE AND BATTERY | EGGERDING, ALIX ECHELMEYER | 1729 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 18, 2023 |
| 17780636 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL USED FOR BATTERY AND METHOD FOR FABRICATION THEREOF, AND BATTERY NEGATIVE ELECTRODE AND BATTERY | HA, STEVEN S | 1735 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | May 27, 2022 |
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