Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Enovix Corporation is actively prosecuting a portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently features 5 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 5 distinct examiners, meaning no single examiner is handling more than one pending matter. This distribution provides the company with broad exposure to different examination styles and interpretations within the USPTO.
The prosecution is organized across 4 distinct art units, showing a relatively high degree of technical variety within the Chemistry & Materials field. CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since each of the 5 distinct examiners holds 1 pending office action, the workload is distributed across the 5 individuals.
This suggests that the 5 pending office actions represent a wide-ranging set of inquiries across the 4 art units involved. Practitioners should prepare for independent prosecution tracks, as the lack of examiner overlap minimizes the opportunity for cross-application consistency. The focus for CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG and the other examiners will be on the specific merits of each individual application within their respective art units.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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% | +7.2% |
| SCHULER, JACOB JEROME | 1 | — | — |
| SONG, KEVIN | 1 | 70.0% | +11.3% |
| CULLEN, SEAN P | 1 | 69.1% | +28.0% |
| DAULTON, CHRISTINA RENEE | 1 | 34.8% | +3.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18135295 | ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY, SEALED SECONDARY BATTERY CELL, BATTERY PACK AND METHODS | SONG, KEVIN | — |
| 18189404 | METHODS OF FORMING A SECONDARY BATTERY ASSEMBLY | CULLEN, SEAN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1751 | 1 |
| 1728 | 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 | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18135295 | ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY, SEALED SECONDARY BATTERY CELL, BATTERY PACK AND METHODS | SONG, KEVIN | 1728 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 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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