Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Factorial Inc. is managing 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. MCCONNELL, WYATT P is the busiest examiner, although he is responsible for only 1 pending office action.
The fact that 4 pending office actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners indicates a highly decentralized prosecution environment. This lack of examiner overlap means that the company must navigate four different individual perspectives simultaneously. Furthermore, the 4 distinct art units suggest that the 4 pending office actions involve diverse technical sub-categories within the chemistry field. Practitioners should be prepared for four separate sets of examination standards, as MCCONNELL, WYATT P only manages 1 pending office action. This one-to-one distribution of examiners to pending office actions for the entire docket requires a tailored approach for each application, as no single examiner has a broad view of the company's current patenting strategy. The presence of 4 distinct examiners for 4 pending office actions ensures that the company's patent prospects are not tied to the discretion of a single individual.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCONNELL, WYATT P | 1 | 80.8% | +9.2% |
| HOANG, THINH GIA | 1 | — | — |
| OSTWALT, ALEXIS ROSE | 1 | — | — |
| CHOI, EVERETT TIMOTHY | 1 | 10.0% | -13.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17878329 | COMPOSITION, ARTICLE, METHOD OF FORMING ARTICLE, ANODE-FREE RECHARGEABLE BATTERY AND FORMING METHOD THEREOF, AND BATTERY | CHOI, EVERETT TIMOTHY | 77d |
| 18772426 | FREE-STANDING SULFIDE SOLID ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE AND ALL SOLID-STATE BATTERIES COMPRISING THE SAME | MCCONNELL, WYATT P | — |
| 18617798 | ELECTROLYTE COMPOSITIONS AND ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICES THEREOF | HOANG, THINH GIA | — |
| 18350861 | CELL ASSEMBLY AND ALL SOLID-STATE BATTERY COMPRISING THE SAME | OSTWALT, ALEXIS ROSE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1727 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 1751 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18772426 | FREE-STANDING SULFIDE SOLID ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE AND ALL SOLID-STATE BATTERIES COMPRISING THE SAME | MCCONNELL, WYATT P | 1727 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18617798 | ELECTROLYTE COMPOSITIONS AND ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICES THEREOF | HOANG, THINH GIA | 1725 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18350861 | CELL ASSEMBLY AND ALL SOLID-STATE BATTERY COMPRISING THE SAME | OSTWALT, ALEXIS ROSE | 1789 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 17878329 | COMPOSITION, ARTICLE, METHOD OF FORMING ARTICLE, ANODE-FREE RECHARGEABLE BATTERY AND FORMING METHOD THEREOF, AND BATTERY | CHOI, EVERETT TIMOTHY | 1751 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 77d | Pending | Aug 01, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialFactorial Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Wyatt P Mcconnell has the most, with 1 of Factorial Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
