Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Form Energy Inc.

10 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

7
Hard (70%)
2
Medium (20%)
1
Easy (10%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (20%)
§112 only1 (10%)
Multi-statute (no §101)7 (70%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

9
Life Sciences
90% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
10% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MARTIN, ANGELA J 2 67.0% -31.9%
APICELLA, KARIE O 2 80.5% +12.4%
CARRICO, ROBERT SCOTT 1 65.9% +32.4%
TRAN, DAN NGUYEN 1
SCHULER, JACOB JEROME 1
CULLEN, SEAN P 1 69.1% +28.2%
TRISCHLER, JOHN T 1 68.9% +21.3%
CHOI, EVERETT TIMOTHY 1 11.8% -14.3%

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18300970 OXYANION-BASED ENERGY STORAGE APICELLA, KARIE O 105d overdue
18305941 BATTERY STRING CONFIGURATION TRISCHLER, JOHN T 23d overdue
18049957 ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES AND COMPONENTS INCLUDING AQUEOUS OXYANION ELECTROLYTES APICELLA, KARIE O 9d
18050322 ELECTROLYTE FORMULATIONS AND ADDITIVES FOR IRON ANODE ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS CHOI, EVERETT TIMOTHY 15d
18378860 CARBON-OXYGEN BATTERY AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF CARRICO, ROBERT SCOTT
18454260 CONSTRUCTION OF ELECTRODE AND CELL COMPONENTS FOR METAL-AIR BATTERIES TRAN, DAN NGUYEN
18352223 GAS MANAGEMENT FOR METAL-AIR BATTERIES SCHULER, JACOB JEROME

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18300970 OXYANION-BASED ENERGY STORAGE APICELLA, KARIE O 105d overdue
18305941 BATTERY STRING CONFIGURATION TRISCHLER, JOHN T 23d overdue
18331446 BATTERY INCLUDING ROLLING DIAPHRAGM ACCOMODATING VOLUME CHANGE OF BATTERY CULLEN, SEAN P 8d overdue
18049957 ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES AND COMPONENTS INCLUDING AQUEOUS OXYANION ELECTROLYTES APICELLA, KARIE O 9d
18378860 CARBON-OXYGEN BATTERY AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF CARRICO, ROBERT SCOTT

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1727 4
1725 3
1754 1
2859 1
1751 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18621659 AQUEOUS POLYSULFIDE-BASED ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL MARTIN, ANGELA J 1727 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 29, 2024
18378860 CARBON-OXYGEN BATTERY AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF CARRICO, ROBERT SCOTT 1727 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 11, 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
18331446 BATTERY INCLUDING ROLLING DIAPHRAGM ACCOMODATING VOLUME CHANGE OF BATTERY CULLEN, SEAN P 1725 §112 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jun 08, 2023
18305941 BATTERY STRING CONFIGURATION TRISCHLER, JOHN T 2859 §102§103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Apr 24, 2023
18300970 OXYANION-BASED ENERGY STORAGE APICELLA, KARIE O 1725 §102§103 Final Rejection 105d overdue Pending Apr 14, 2023
18050322 ELECTROLYTE FORMULATIONS AND ADDITIVES FOR IRON ANODE ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS CHOI, EVERETT TIMOTHY 1751 §102§103Other Non-Final OA 15d Pending Oct 27, 2022
18049957 ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES AND COMPONENTS INCLUDING AQUEOUS OXYANION ELECTROLYTES APICELLA, KARIE O 1725 §102§103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Oct 26, 2022
16914012 MEMBRANES FOR AQUEOUS REDOX FLOW BATTERIES MARTIN, ANGELA J 1727 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 26, 2020

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