Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days
CALB Co., Ltd. has 8 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The portfolio spans 7 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, showing a distributed prosecution workload across multiple examination assignments.
ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The remaining actions require separate docketing and response strategies, while the concentration before that examiner supports targeted review of those matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 (38%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM | 2 | 69.0% | +6.5% |
| KENLAW, GRACE A | 1 | 50.8% | +36.8% |
| FRANCIS, ADAM JOSEPH | 1 | 73.6% | +24.8% |
| DIGNAN, MICHAEL L | 1 | 58.1% | +16.1% |
| NEWMAN, DREW C | 1 | 41.8% | +29.7% |
| KERNS, KEVIN P | 1 | 78.9% | +21.2% |
| JELSMA, JONATHAN G | 1 | 69.9% | +14.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17746977 | ENERGY STORAGE FRAME AND ENERGY STORAGE BATTERY CLUSTER | JELSMA, JONATHAN G | 134d overdue |
| 17978216 | BATTERY CASE AND BATTERY DEVICE | NEWMAN, DREW C | 34d |
| 17984227 | BATTERY PACK, ASSEMBLY METHOD FOR BATTERY PACK, AND DISASSEMBLY METHOD FOR BATTERY PACK | ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM | — |
| 17974539 | BATTERY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR BATTERY | ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17746977 | ENERGY STORAGE FRAME AND ENERGY STORAGE BATTERY CLUSTER | JELSMA, JONATHAN G | 134d overdue |
| 18150793 | BATTERY | KENLAW, GRACE A | 35d overdue |
| 18079845 | BATTERY MODULE AND BATTERY PACK | DIGNAN, MICHAEL L | 9d overdue |
| 18085546 | BATTERY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR BATTERY | FRANCIS, ADAM JOSEPH | 8d overdue |
| 17978216 | BATTERY CASE AND BATTERY DEVICE | NEWMAN, DREW C | 34d |
| 17971646 | BATTERY, BATTERY APPARATUS AND BATTERY MANUFACTURING METHOD | KERNS, KEVIN P | 62d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1723 | 2 |
| 1725 | 2 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| 1751 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1722 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18150793 | BATTERY | KENLAW, GRACE A | 1723 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
| 18085546 | BATTERY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR BATTERY | FRANCIS, ADAM JOSEPH | 1728 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Dec 20, 2022 |
| 18079845 | BATTERY MODULE AND BATTERY PACK | DIGNAN, MICHAEL L | 1723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Dec 12, 2022 |
| 17984227 | BATTERY PACK, ASSEMBLY METHOD FOR BATTERY PACK, AND DISASSEMBLY METHOD FOR BATTERY PACK | ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM | 1725 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2022 |
| 17978216 | BATTERY CASE AND BATTERY DEVICE | NEWMAN, DREW C | 1751 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Nov 01, 2022 |
| 17974539 | BATTERY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR BATTERY | ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM | 1725 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
| 17971646 | BATTERY, BATTERY APPARATUS AND BATTERY MANUFACTURING METHOD | KERNS, KEVIN P | 1735 | §103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Oct 24, 2022 |
| 17746977 | ENERGY STORAGE FRAME AND ENERGY STORAGE BATTERY CLUSTER | JELSMA, JONATHAN G | 1722 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 134d overdue | Pending | May 18, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialCALB Co., Ltd. has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 7 examiners.
Jonathan William Estes has the most, with 2 of CALB Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
