Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Echion Technologies Limited is currently managing 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and are located in 2 distinct art units. TADAYYON ESLAMI, TABASSOM is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action.
The distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units indicates a decentralized prosecution landscape. Each case is being handled by a different examiner in a different technical division of the USPTO. This requires the applicant to manage separate sets of examiner expectations and different sets of art unit-specific procedures.
TADAYYON ESLAMI, TABASSOM's role as the busiest examiner involves 1 pending office action, which represents a significant portion of the company's current pending workload. This structure means that the company must be prepared for varied feedback and different examination timelines. The presence of the 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's technology spans multiple specialized areas within the Chemistry & Materials field.
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 (33%) |
| §112 only | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TADAYYON ESLAMI, TABASSOM | 1 | 49.5% | +26.5% |
| MURATA, AUSTIN | 1 | 60.9% | +21.2% |
| GATEWOOD, DANIEL S | 1 | 77.9% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18021703 | ACTIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL | GATEWOOD, DANIEL S | 46d |
| 18838143 | ELECTRODE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | TADAYYON ESLAMI, TABASSOM | — |
| 18728618 | ACTIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL | MURATA, AUSTIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1718 | 1 |
| 1729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18838143 | ELECTRODE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | TADAYYON ESLAMI, TABASSOM | 1718 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18728618 | ACTIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL | MURATA, AUSTIN | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18021703 | ACTIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL | GATEWOOD, DANIEL S | 1729 | §112 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | Feb 16, 2023 |
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