Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Form Energy Inc.

9 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)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.

0
Hard (0%)
7
Medium (78%)
2
Easy (22%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (78%)
§112 only2 (22%)

Industry Mix

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

8
Life Sciences
89% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
11% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
APICELLA, KARIE O 2 80.3% +12.4%
CHOI, EVERETT TIMOTHY 2 12.5% -15.4%
CULLEN, SEAN P 1 68.9% +28.8%
TRISCHLER, JOHN T 1 68.3% +21.5%
YANG, JIE 1 62.2% +19.0%
HANSEN, JARED A 1 54.4% +44.4%
DOVE, TRACY MAE 1 69.3% +10.2%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18300970 OXYANION-BASED ENERGY STORAGE APICELLA, KARIE O 105d overdue
18049957 ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES AND COMPONENTS INCLUDING AQUEOUS OXYANION ELECTROLYTES APICELLA, KARIE O 9d

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17661256 ELECTROLYTE FORMULATIONS AND ADDITIVES FOR IRON ANODE ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS CHOI, EVERETT TIMOTHY 42d overdue
18050322 ELECTROLYTE FORMULATIONS AND ADDITIVES FOR IRON ANODE ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS CHOI, EVERETT TIMOTHY 15d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18300970 OXYANION-BASED ENERGY STORAGE APICELLA, KARIE O 105d overdue
17523389 METHOD OF IRON ELECTRODE MANUFACTURE AND ARTICLES AND SYSTEMS THEREFROM HANSEN, JARED A 86d overdue
16913958 LOW COST AIR ELECTRODES DOVE, TRACY MAE 60d overdue
18165186 PROCESSES FOR PURIFYING IRON-BEARING MATERIALS YANG, JIE 38d 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

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1725 4
1751 2
2859 1
1734 1
1723 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Apr 24, 2023
18300970 OXYANION-BASED ENERGY STORAGE APICELLA, KARIE O 1725 §103 Non-Final OA 105d overdue Pending Apr 14, 2023
18165186 PROCESSES FOR PURIFYING IRON-BEARING MATERIALS YANG, JIE 1734 §103 Final Rejection 38d overdue Pending Feb 06, 2023
18050322 ELECTROLYTE FORMULATIONS AND ADDITIVES FOR IRON ANODE ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS CHOI, EVERETT TIMOTHY 1751 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Oct 27, 2022
18049957 ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES AND COMPONENTS INCLUDING AQUEOUS OXYANION ELECTROLYTES APICELLA, KARIE O 1725 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Oct 26, 2022
17661256 ELECTROLYTE FORMULATIONS AND ADDITIVES FOR IRON ANODE ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS CHOI, EVERETT TIMOTHY 1751 §103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Apr 28, 2022
17523389 METHOD OF IRON ELECTRODE MANUFACTURE AND ARTICLES AND SYSTEMS THEREFROM HANSEN, JARED A 1723 §103 Final Rejection 86d overdue Pending Nov 10, 2021
16913958 LOW COST AIR ELECTRODES DOVE, TRACY MAE 1725 §112 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Jun 26, 2020

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