Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
FDK Corporation manages 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 5 distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter is reviewed by a different person. The portfolio is active in 3 distinct art units.
LAWRENCE LA RAIA III is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. This indicates an even distribution of work, as each of the 5 distinct examiners handles exactly one-fifth of the pending office actions. The concentration in 3 distinct art units suggests some overlap in the technical oversight of the Chemistry & Materials applications. Practitioners must manage 5 different examiner relationships, which requires a versatile prosecution strategy.
While the 3 distinct art units provide some technical grouping, the use of 5 distinct examiners introduces a variety of individual styles. The fact that LAWRENCE LA RAIA III only has 1 pending office action highlights the decentralized nature of this portfolio's current prosecution. This structure requires the company to address 5 unique sets of examiner feedback while maintaining a consistent approach within the 3 art units involved.
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 | 5 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LA RAIA III, LAWRENCE | 1 | 72.2% | +36.2% |
| CHENG, VIVIAN S | 1 | — | — |
| LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER | 1 | 70.2% | +11.4% |
| ARCIERO, ADAM A | 1 | 65.1% | -17.6% |
| AKRAM, IMRAN | 1 | 64.7% | +43.0% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18650419 | SOLID-STATE BATTERY AND SOLID-STATE BATTERY MANUFACTURING METHOD | LA RAIA III, LAWRENCE | — |
| 18490638 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR ZINC BATTERY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER | — |
| 18034084 | BATTERY PACKAGE | AKRAM, IMRAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 4100 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18650419 | SOLID-STATE BATTERY AND SOLID-STATE BATTERY MANUFACTURING METHOD | LA RAIA III, LAWRENCE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18604474 | ZINC SECONDARY BATTERY | CHENG, VIVIAN S | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18490638 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR ZINC BATTERY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER | 4100 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18337343 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE FOR ALKALINE SECONDARY BATTERY AND ALKALINE SECONDARY BATTERY HAVING THE SAME | ARCIERO, ADAM A | 1727 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Jun 19, 2023 |
| 18034084 | BATTERY PACKAGE | AKRAM, IMRAN | 1725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
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