Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Form Energy Inc. is navigating 8 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio shows a high degree of distribution across the patent office, involving 7 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units. This spread suggests that the company's innovations touch on various specialized sub-sectors within its primary field, requiring a broad understanding of different examination styles.
The busiest examiner, MARTIN, ANGELA J, is responsible for 2 pending office actions. While this examiner holds the largest share of the current workload, the remaining 6 actions are spread among other officials. This distribution minimizes the impact of any single examiner's tendencies on the overall portfolio. Practitioners should prepare for a variety of procedural approaches given the involvement of 6 distinct art units. The diversity of 7 distinct examiners indicates a complex prosecution environment that requires managing multiple distinct technical and procedural expectations simultaneously.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 4 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARTIN, ANGELA J | 2 | 67.3% | -31.5% |
| AMPONSAH, OSEI K | 1 | 72.4% | +33.1% |
| TRAN, DAN NGUYEN | 1 | — | — |
| SCHULER, JACOB JEROME | 1 | — | — |
| APICELLA, KARIE O | 1 | 80.6% | +12.3% |
| CHOI, EVERETT TIMOTHY | 1 | 10.0% | -13.3% |
| WYROUGH, PAUL CHRISTIAN ST | 1 | 58.1% | +34.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18300970 | OXYANION-BASED ENERGY STORAGE | APICELLA, KARIE O | 105d overdue |
| 17661256 | ELECTROLYTE FORMULATIONS AND ADDITIVES FOR IRON ANODE ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS | CHOI, EVERETT TIMOTHY | 42d overdue |
| 18454260 | CONSTRUCTION OF ELECTRODE AND CELL COMPONENTS FOR METAL-AIR BATTERIES | TRAN, DAN NGUYEN | — |
| 18352223 | GAS MANAGEMENT FOR METAL-AIR BATTERIES | SCHULER, JACOB JEROME | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18300970 | OXYANION-BASED ENERGY STORAGE | APICELLA, KARIE O | 105d overdue |
| 18479668 | SOLID STATE ADDITIVES FOR IRON NEGATIVE ELECTRODES | AMPONSAH, OSEI K | — |
| 17236677 | POROUS MATERIALS FOR BATTERY ELECTRODES | WYROUGH, PAUL CHRISTIAN ST | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1727 | 3 |
| 1752 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| 1751 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18621659 | AQUEOUS POLYSULFIDE-BASED ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL | MARTIN, ANGELA J | 1727 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18479668 | SOLID STATE ADDITIVES FOR IRON NEGATIVE ELECTRODES | AMPONSAH, OSEI K | 1752 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18454260 | CONSTRUCTION OF ELECTRODE AND CELL COMPONENTS FOR METAL-AIR BATTERIES | TRAN, DAN NGUYEN | 1754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18352223 | GAS MANAGEMENT FOR METAL-AIR BATTERIES | SCHULER, JACOB JEROME | 1727 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2023 |
| 18300970 | OXYANION-BASED ENERGY STORAGE | APICELLA, KARIE O | 1725 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 105d overdue | Pending | Apr 14, 2023 |
| 17661256 | ELECTROLYTE FORMULATIONS AND ADDITIVES FOR IRON ANODE ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS | CHOI, EVERETT TIMOTHY | 1751 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Apr 28, 2022 |
| 17236677 | POROUS MATERIALS FOR BATTERY ELECTRODES | WYROUGH, PAUL CHRISTIAN ST | 1723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2021 |
| 16914012 | MEMBRANES FOR AQUEOUS REDOX FLOW BATTERIES | MARTIN, ANGELA J | 1727 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2020 |
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