Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fastcap Ultracapacitors LLC has 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and the same number of art units. This arrangement shows that the company's active filings are being evaluated by different technical teams within the patent office. FERGUSON, DION is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action.
Since there are 2 pending actions in total, this examiner manages a portion of the company's current active prosecution. The use of 2 examiners across multiple art units suggests a diverse technological reach within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. Practitioners must manage separate prosecution tracks, each with its own examiner and art unit standards. This distribution may require different tactical approaches for each application to address the specific concerns of the different examiners involved. The company's current patenting activity is spread evenly across its assigned examiners, ensuring that each application receives a specialized review tailored to its specific technical niche while maintaining a presence in multiple art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAY, GEORGE STERLING | 1 | 75.3% | +9.9% |
| FERGUSON, DION | 1 | 87.0% | +8.2% |
| WEST, ROBERT GENE | 1 | 74.8% | +24.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18945893 | CHIP FORM ULTRACAPACITOR | FERGUSON, DION | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18240545 | ELECTRODES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES | WEST, ROBERT GENE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18240545 | ELECTRODES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES | WEST, ROBERT GENE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3676 | 1 |
| 2847 | 1 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19451802 | POWER SYSTEM FOR DOWNHOLE TOOLSTRING | GRAY, GEORGE STERLING | 3676 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2026 |
| 18945893 | CHIP FORM ULTRACAPACITOR | FERGUSON, DION | 2847 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18240545 | ELECTRODES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES | WEST, ROBERT GENE | 1721 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
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