Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
CPS Technology Holdings LLC currently manages 6 pending office actions. These actions are situated within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution effort involves 6 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units.
CHEUNG, MARY DA ZHI WANG is the busiest examiner for this company, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 action is part of the 6 pending office actions currently active. Since there are 6 distinct examiners, each individual is responsible for 1 case.
The presence of 4 distinct art units for the 6 pending office actions suggests that the company's Chemistry & Materials filings are spread across several specialized groups. For a practitioner, this means that while each case has a unique examiner, some of the 6 pending office actions share an art unit. CHEUNG, MARY DA ZHI WANG is 1 of the 6 points of contact for the portfolio.
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 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEUNG, MARY DA ZHI WANG | 1 | 83.0% | +12.9% |
| COMBER, KEVIN J | 1 | 82.6% | +11.8% |
| GATEWOOD, DANIEL S | 1 | 77.9% | +18.8% |
| CAVALLARI, DANIEL | 1 | 78.6% | +13.9% |
| NGUYEN, HUY TRAM | 1 | 79.3% | +6.6% |
| FRANCIS, ADAM JOSEPH | 1 | 73.2% | +25.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19183390 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BATTERY SELECTION | CHEUNG, MARY DA ZHI WANG | — |
| 18863734 | BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | COMBER, KEVIN J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18678135 | METHOD FOR BONDING THERMOPLASTIC COMPONENTS IN A BATTERY MODULE | GATEWOOD, DANIEL S | — |
| 18690046 | ADJUSTABLE BATTERY CHARGER | CAVALLARI, DANIEL | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19183390 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BATTERY SELECTION | CHEUNG, MARY DA ZHI WANG | — |
| 18863734 | BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | COMBER, KEVIN J | — |
| 18678135 | METHOD FOR BONDING THERMOPLASTIC COMPONENTS IN A BATTERY MODULE | GATEWOOD, DANIEL S | — |
| 18690046 | ADJUSTABLE BATTERY CHARGER | CAVALLARI, DANIEL | — |
| 18033655 | VENT ADAPTOR AND BATTERY INCLUDING A VENT ADAPTER | FRANCIS, ADAM JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3665 | 1 |
| 1729 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19183390 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BATTERY SELECTION | CHEUNG, MARY DA ZHI WANG | 3665 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 18863734 | BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | COMBER, KEVIN J | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18678135 | METHOD FOR BONDING THERMOPLASTIC COMPONENTS IN A BATTERY MODULE | GATEWOOD, DANIEL S | 1729 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18690046 | ADJUSTABLE BATTERY CHARGER | CAVALLARI, DANIEL | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18587852 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLOSED-LOOP RECYCLING OF A LIQUID COMPONENT OF A LEACHING MIXTURE WHEN RECYCLING LEAD FROM SPENT LEAD-ACID BATTERIES | NGUYEN, HUY TRAM | 1774 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18033655 | VENT ADAPTOR AND BATTERY INCLUDING A VENT ADAPTER | FRANCIS, ADAM JOSEPH | 1728 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2023 |
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