Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
18 pending office actions • 8 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dongguan Amperex Technology Limited is managing 19 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 9 distinct art units, showing a significant range of technical classifications for the company's current filings. The portfolio involves 19 distinct examiners, which means that every pending action is currently assigned to a different individual at the patent office.
FRAZIER, KELVIN MITCHELL is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. This 1 action is part of the 19 total pending actions currently active. The distribution of 19 actions across 9 art units and 19 distinct examiners suggests a broad prosecution effort within the chemistry and materials sector, with no concentration of matters under a single examiner. For practitioners, this means that each of the 19 pending office actions requires a unique strategy tailored to the specific examiner and art unit involved. The lack of examiner concentration across these 19 matters requires managing 19 separate relationships and prosecution styles simultaneously. This distribution across 9 art units highlights the scale and complexity of the company's current Chemistry & Materials portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 | 11 (61%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (39%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAUND, SIMRAN SINGH | 1 | — | — |
| FRAZIER, KELVIN MITCHELL | 1 | — | — |
| MARTIN, MATTHEW T | 1 | 44.4% | +38.5% |
| STAGG, MIRIAM | 1 | 31.8% | +15.7% |
| HIGGINS, KATHERINE NICOLE | 1 | 64.4% | +22.0% |
| JELSMA, JONATHAN G | 1 | 69.8% | +14.9% |
| CHMIELECKI, SCOTT J | 1 | 79.6% | +19.8% |
| ZENG, LINGWEN R | 1 | 76.6% | +20.3% |
| DIGNAN, MICHAEL L | 1 | 58.0% | +16.4% |
| CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES | 1 | 59.1% | +38.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18129287 | PACKAGE HOUSING, ELECTROCHEMICAL APPARATUS AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | KRONE, TAYLOR HARRISON | 21d |
| 17909075 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING SAME | KASS-MULLET, BENJAMIN ELI | 33d |
| 17583514 | LI-ION BATTERY ELECTRODE PIECE | HA, STEVEN S | 33d |
| 18400146 | ELECTROCHEMICAL APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | JELSMA, JONATHAN G | — |
| 18392779 | BATTERY-FIXING BONDING TAPE AND MOBILE TERMINAL | CHMIELECKI, SCOTT J | — |
| 18539288 | SECONDARY BATTERY AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | DIGNAN, MICHAEL L | — |
| 17710161 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE PLATE, ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | ORTIZ, ARYANA YASMINE | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18651860 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE CONTAINING SAME | MARTIN, MATTHEW T | — |
| 18622406 | BATTERY AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | STAGG, MIRIAM | — |
| 18619933 | BATTERY AND BATTERY PACK | HIGGINS, KATHERINE NICOLE | — |
| 18400146 | ELECTROCHEMICAL APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | JELSMA, JONATHAN G | — |
| 18392779 | BATTERY-FIXING BONDING TAPE AND MOBILE TERMINAL | CHMIELECKI, SCOTT J | — |
| 18544744 | BATTERY CELL, BATTERY AND ELECTRICAL DEVICE | ZENG, LINGWEN R | — |
| 18539288 | SECONDARY BATTERY AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | DIGNAN, MICHAEL L | — |
| 18194019 | ELECTROCHEMICAL APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1725 | 2 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| 1729 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| 1726 | 1 |
| 1752 | 1 |
| 1751 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18758096 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING SAME | SAUND, SIMRAN SINGH | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18758179 | BINDER AND APPLICATION THEREOF | FRAZIER, KELVIN MITCHELL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18651860 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE CONTAINING SAME | MARTIN, MATTHEW T | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18622406 | BATTERY AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | STAGG, MIRIAM | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18619933 | BATTERY AND BATTERY PACK | HIGGINS, KATHERINE NICOLE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18400146 | ELECTROCHEMICAL APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | JELSMA, JONATHAN G | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18392779 | BATTERY-FIXING BONDING TAPE AND MOBILE TERMINAL | CHMIELECKI, SCOTT J | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18544744 | BATTERY CELL, BATTERY AND ELECTRICAL DEVICE | ZENG, LINGWEN R | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18539288 | SECONDARY BATTERY AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | DIGNAN, MICHAEL L | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18194019 | ELECTROCHEMICAL APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES | 1794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 18194000 | ELECTROCHEMICAL APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND PREPARATION METHOD OF ELECTROCHEMICAL APPARATUS | DAULTON, CHRISTINA RENEE | 1729 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 18129287 | PACKAGE HOUSING, ELECTROCHEMICAL APPARATUS AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | KRONE, TAYLOR HARRISON | 1725 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 18192939 | Electrochemical Apparatus and Electronic Apparatus | WEI, ZHONGQING | 1727 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
| 18191230 | ELECTROCHEMICAL APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | BARTON, JEFFREY THOMAS | 1726 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 17951375 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL, ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | FEHR, JULIA MARIE | 1725 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Sep 23, 2022 |
| 17909075 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING SAME | KASS-MULLET, BENJAMIN ELI | 1752 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Sep 02, 2022 |
| 17710161 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE PLATE, ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | ORTIZ, ARYANA YASMINE | 1751 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2022 |
| 17583514 | LI-ION BATTERY ELECTRODE PIECE | HA, STEVEN S | 1735 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Jan 25, 2022 |
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