Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Enovix Corporation is managing 7 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 7 distinct examiners, meaning that every pending case is being reviewed by a different person. The involvement of 6 distinct art units highlights the technical breadth of the portfolio, as the company's applications are distributed across nearly as many art units as there are pending actions.
The busiest examiner, CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG, is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 7 distinct examiners and 7 pending office actions, there is no examiner overlap, which prevents the development of a single unified relationship with any one reviewer. For practitioners, this decentralized structure across 6 distinct art units means that prosecution tactics must be tailored to the specific tendencies of each individual examiner. The high number of art units relative to the number of actions suggests a diverse array of technical challenges within the chemistry and materials sector.
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 (17%) |
| §102 only | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG | 1 | 45.8% | +7.3% |
| SCHULER, JACOB JEROME | 1 | — | — |
| AKHTAR, KIRAN QURAISHI | 1 | 65.0% | -5.8% |
| SLIFKA, COLIN W | 1 | 67.4% | +16.1% |
| CULLEN, SEAN P | 1 | 69.2% | +28.0% |
| DAULTON, CHRISTINA RENEE | 1 | 35.7% | +4.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17851908 | CARRIER ION LOADING OF SECONDARY BATTERIES UTILIZING AUXILIARY ELECTRODES | DAULTON, CHRISTINA RENEE | 50d overdue |
| 18653761 | Activation of Electrical Unit Cells | CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG | — |
| 18284820 | METHODS AND STRUCTURES FOR TRANSFER OF CARRIER IONS THROUGH CONSTRAINT SYSTEM FROM AUXILIARY ELECTRODE | SLIFKA, COLIN W | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18284820 | METHODS AND STRUCTURES FOR TRANSFER OF CARRIER IONS THROUGH CONSTRAINT SYSTEM FROM AUXILIARY ELECTRODE | SLIFKA, COLIN W | — |
| 18189404 | METHODS OF FORMING A SECONDARY BATTERY ASSEMBLY | CULLEN, SEAN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1751 | 2 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| 1729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18653761 | Activation of Electrical Unit Cells | CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG | 1751 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18424239 | CATHODE INTER-CONNECT WITH POLYMER-BASED SCHEMES | SCHULER, JACOB JEROME | 1727 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18285027 | METHODS AND STRUCTURES FOR TRANSFER OF CARRIER IONS FROM AUXILIARY ELECTRODE | AKHTAR, KIRAN QURAISHI | 1751 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18284820 | METHODS AND STRUCTURES FOR TRANSFER OF CARRIER IONS THROUGH CONSTRAINT SYSTEM FROM AUXILIARY ELECTRODE | SLIFKA, COLIN W | 1732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18189404 | METHODS OF FORMING A SECONDARY BATTERY ASSEMBLY | CULLEN, SEAN P | 1725 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2023 |
| 17851908 | CARRIER ION LOADING OF SECONDARY BATTERIES UTILIZING AUXILIARY ELECTRODES | DAULTON, CHRISTINA RENEE | 1729 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialEnovix Corporation has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Tony Sheng Hsiang Chuo has the most, with 1 of Enovix Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
