Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Fastcap Systems Corporation has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners but are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the examiners differ, the technical subject matter remains within a specific specialized group.
MCCONNELL, WYATT P is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. Since there are pending office actions in total, the workload is divided between the distinct examiners. Practitioners should consider how the 1 distinct art unit's specific guidelines might influence the pending office actions differently under each examiner. This concentration in a specific art unit allows for a focused understanding of the relevant prior art and examination standards. Coordinating responses between the examiners can help ensure that the company's overall objectives in the Chemistry & Materials sector are met consistently.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCONNELL, WYATT P | 1 | 80.6% | +9.4% |
| JONES, OLIVIA ANN | 1 | 58.6% | +52.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18580319 | ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES | MCCONNELL, WYATT P | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18081057 | ELECTRODES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES | JONES, OLIVIA ANN | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18580319 | ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES | MCCONNELL, WYATT P | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18081057 | ELECTRODES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES | JONES, OLIVIA ANN | 1789 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Dec 14, 2022 |
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