Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
13 pending office actions • 8 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ecopro BM Co., Ltd. has 12 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. Those matters are distributed among 11 examiners and 8 art units, so the portfolio requires coordination across multiple examination settings rather than a single prosecution channel.
MEDLEY, JOHN SAMUEL is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That concentration is limited relative to the overall docket, which suggests that most prosecution activity is dispersed among other examiners. Practitioners should maintain matter-specific tracking for examiner practice, art-unit requirements, and response timing across the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 4 (31%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (62%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEDLEY, JOHN SAMUEL | 2 | 67.5% | +32.6% |
| ORTIZ, ARYANA YASMINE | 1 | 50.0% | +29.2% |
| THOMAS, JAISON P | 1 | 82.8% | +17.6% |
| MERKLING, MATTHEW J | 1 | 68.2% | +13.2% |
| COCHENOUR, ZACKARY RICHARD | 1 | 75.4% | +32.4% |
| NGUYEN, KHANH TUAN | 1 | 74.5% | +18.7% |
| RIDLEY, BASIA ANNA | 1 | 13.5% | +1.7% |
| TAN, ESTHER JIESI | 1 | — | — |
| WEST, ROBERT GENE | 1 | 73.8% | +21.7% |
| FREEMAN, EMILY ELIZABETH | 1 | 72.8% | +13.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18314558 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING THE SAME | RIDLEY, BASIA ANNA | 31d overdue |
| 18308863 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING THE SAME | WEST, ROBERT GENE | 2d overdue |
| 18177550 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING THE SAME | JACOBSON, SARAH JORDAN | 23d |
| 18820309 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR SODIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME, AND SODIUM SECONDARY | THOMAS, JAISON P | — |
| 18465445 | SOLID ELECTROLYTE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE SAME | MERKLING, MATTHEW J | — |
| 18323928 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING THE SAME | COCHENOUR, ZACKARY RICHARD | — |
| 18246523 | Cathode Active Material for Lithium Secondary Battery, Preparation Method Therefor, and Lithium Secondary Battery Comprising Same | FREEMAN, EMILY ELIZABETH | — |
| 18046045 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING THE SAME | MEDLEY, JOHN SAMUEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18308863 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING THE SAME | WEST, ROBERT GENE | 2d overdue |
| 18246526 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING SAME | MEDLEY, JOHN SAMUEL | 1d overdue |
| 19060905 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | ORTIZ, ARYANA YASMINE | — |
| 18820309 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR SODIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME, AND SODIUM SECONDARY | THOMAS, JAISON P | — |
| 18465445 | SOLID ELECTROLYTE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE SAME | MERKLING, MATTHEW J | — |
| 18323928 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING THE SAME | COCHENOUR, ZACKARY RICHARD | — |
| 18198477 | METHOD OF PREPARING POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY USING WASTE POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL | NGUYEN, KHANH TUAN | — |
| 18246523 | Cathode Active Material for Lithium Secondary Battery, Preparation Method Therefor, and Lithium Secondary Battery Comprising Same | FREEMAN, EMILY ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1751 | 4 |
| 1725 | 2 |
| 1761 | 2 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| 1752 | 1 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| 1724 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19060905 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | ORTIZ, ARYANA YASMINE | 1751 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 18820309 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR SODIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME, AND SODIUM SECONDARY | THOMAS, JAISON P | 1762 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18465445 | SOLID ELECTROLYTE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE SAME | MERKLING, MATTHEW J | 1725 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
| 18323928 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING THE SAME | COCHENOUR, ZACKARY RICHARD | 1752 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18198477 | METHOD OF PREPARING POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY USING WASTE POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL | NGUYEN, KHANH TUAN | 1761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2023 |
| 18314558 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING THE SAME | RIDLEY, BASIA ANNA | 1725 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
| 18311520 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING THE SAME | TAN, ESTHER JIESI | 1751 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
| 18308863 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING THE SAME | WEST, ROBERT GENE | 1721 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
| 18246526 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING SAME | MEDLEY, JOHN SAMUEL | 1751 | §112 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Mar 24, 2023 |
| 18246523 | Cathode Active Material for Lithium Secondary Battery, Preparation Method Therefor, and Lithium Secondary Battery Comprising Same | FREEMAN, EMILY ELIZABETH | 1724 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2023 |
| 18177550 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING THE SAME | JACOBSON, SARAH JORDAN | 1785 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Mar 02, 2023 |
| 18046045 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING THE SAME | MEDLEY, JOHN SAMUEL | 1751 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2022 |
| 18045537 | LITHIUM METAL COMPLEX OXIDE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME | DIAZ, MATTHEW R | 1761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialEcopro BM Co., Ltd. has 13 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 12 examiners.
John Samuel Medley has the most, with 2 of Ecopro BM Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
