Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. Kg currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners, indicating a broad spread of oversight for the portfolio. The workload is concentrated within 2 distinct art units, which suggests that while the examiners are varied, the technical focus remains relatively narrow within the broader field of chemistry.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is WANG, EUGENIA, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that no single examiner holds a majority of the workload. For a practitioner, this means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to the individual preferences of multiple examiners rather than focusing on a single primary contact at the patent office.
The involvement of different examiners for every action highlights a high level of examiner diversity relative to the portfolio size. This lack of concentration with a single examiner like WANG, EUGENIA, who only manages a single matter, suggests that the outcomes of these filings will likely depend on a wide range of individual examiner interpretations. Managing 2 distinct art units further requires navigating the specific procedural nuances of different examination groups.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WANG, EUGENIA | 1 | 54.4% | +34.8% |
| HANYON, SAMANTHA LEE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 1 | 54.7% | +13.8% |
| NEWMAN, DREW C | 1 | 42.4% | +28.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18432345 | Stopper for Closing and Sealing an Opening in a Housing of An Energy Storage System and Energy Storage System | HANYON, SAMANTHA LEE | — |
| 18561882 | BATTERY CONNECTOR AND BATTERY COVER | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | — |
| 18123734 | GRID ASSEMBLY FOR A PLATE-SHAPED BATTERY ELECTRODE OF AN ELECTROCHEMICAL ACCUMULATOR BATTERY | NEWMAN, DREW C | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18604333 | ABSORBENT GLASS MAT BATTERY | WANG, EUGENIA | 1d overdue |
| 18561882 | BATTERY CONNECTOR AND BATTERY COVER | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | — |
| 18123734 | GRID ASSEMBLY FOR A PLATE-SHAPED BATTERY ELECTRODE OF AN ELECTROCHEMICAL ACCUMULATOR BATTERY | NEWMAN, DREW C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1751 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18604333 | ABSORBENT GLASS MAT BATTERY | WANG, EUGENIA | 1759 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18432345 | Stopper for Closing and Sealing an Opening in a Housing of An Energy Storage System and Energy Storage System | HANYON, SAMANTHA LEE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18561882 | BATTERY CONNECTOR AND BATTERY COVER | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18123734 | GRID ASSEMBLY FOR A PLATE-SHAPED BATTERY ELECTRODE OF AN ELECTROCHEMICAL ACCUMULATOR BATTERY | NEWMAN, DREW C | 1751 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2023 |
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