Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
18 pending office actions • 12 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Global Graphene Group Inc. maintains a robust patent portfolio with 16 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This high volume of activity is distributed across 14 distinct examiners, showing a broad and complex prosecution landscape. The diversity of examiners suggests that the company is pursuing a wide array of innovations that fall under different specialized review criteria within the patent office. With 16 pending office actions, the company demonstrates a significant and ongoing commitment to expanding its intellectual property in the materials sector.
Nathanael T Zemui is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 2 busiest examiner pending actions. The fact that the pending actions are spread over 11 distinct art units indicates that the company's chemistry and materials research spans many specialized technical fields. Practitioners should note that while the workload is distributed, certain examiners like Nathanael T Zemui handle a slightly higher concentration of the company's active matters. This distributed model across 14 distinct examiners requires a coordinated strategy to ensure consistency in claim construction and terminology across the entire chemistry and materials portfolio. The high number of 11 distinct art units suggests deep penetration into various material science categories.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 15 (83%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | 2 | 56.0% | +24.1% |
| CHMIELECKI, SCOTT J | 2 | 79.6% | +19.8% |
| MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | 1 | 66.7% | +0.0% |
| LEE, JAMES | 1 | 74.2% | +19.5% |
| MCCRACKEN, DANIEL | 1 | 72.0% | +16.2% |
| CASERTO, JULIA SHARON | 1 | 71.4% | +28.9% |
| ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM | 1 | 69.0% | +6.5% |
| MEDLEY, JOHN SAMUEL | 1 | 67.8% | +31.4% |
| CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE | 1 | 66.7% | +25.0% |
| CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | 1 | 50.3% | +29.0% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17662724 | Rechargeable Sodium Battery Containing a Solid Elastomer Electrolyte and Manufacturing Method | CASERTO, JULIA SHARON | 140d overdue |
| 17118980 | ELASTIC CROSSLINKED POLYMER-ENCAPSULATED ANODE PARTICLES FOR LITHIUM BATTERIES AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING | SMITH, JEREMIAH R | 120d overdue |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17662724 | Rechargeable Sodium Battery Containing a Solid Elastomer Electrolyte and Manufacturing Method | CASERTO, JULIA SHARON | 140d overdue |
| 17063567 | ELECTRODE STRUCTURES FOR LITHIUM BATTERIES | CHMIELECKI, SCOTT J | 85d overdue |
| 17175954 | SOLID-STATE MEDIUM FOR LITHIUM ION TRANSPORT, LITHIUM BATTERIES AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | 73d overdue |
| 17121435 | LITHIUM-PROTECTING POLYMER COMPOSITE LAYER FOR A LITHIUM METAL SECONDARY BATTERY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | CHMIELECKI, SCOTT J | 3d overdue |
| 18310772 | TEMPERATURE-REGULATED BATTERY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME | LEE, JAMES | 16d |
| 18305808 | Production of Graphite from Recycled Plastics | MCCRACKEN, DANIEL | 19d |
| 17402188 | Prelithiated Anode, Lithium-Ion Battery Containing Same, and Method of Producing Same | CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE | 26d |
| 17533192 | Elastic Polymer-Protected Anode Particles, Anode, and Lithium-Ion Battery | MEDLEY, JOHN SAMUEL | 30d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1725 | 4 |
| 1729 | 3 |
| 1727 | 2 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 1751 | 1 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| 1724 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18315207 | Production of Graphite from a Sustainable Source | MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | 1738 | §103 | Final Rejection | 89d overdue | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
| 18310772 | TEMPERATURE-REGULATED BATTERY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME | LEE, JAMES | 1725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | May 02, 2023 |
| 18305808 | Production of Graphite from Recycled Plastics | MCCRACKEN, DANIEL | 1736 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Apr 24, 2023 |
| 17662724 | Rechargeable Sodium Battery Containing a Solid Elastomer Electrolyte and Manufacturing Method | CASERTO, JULIA SHARON | 1789 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 140d overdue | Pending | May 10, 2022 |
| 17649149 | Conducting Polymer/Inorganic Hybrid Solid-State Electrolytes, Lithium Batteries Containing Same, and Production Processes | ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | 1727 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2022 |
| 17648167 | Inorganic-Polymeric Hybrid Solid-State Electrolytes, Lithium Batteries Containing Same, and Production Processes | ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | 1727 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2022 |
| 17539453 | Elastomer-Protected Anode and Lithium-Ion Battery | ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM | 1725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Dec 01, 2021 |
| 17533192 | Elastic Polymer-Protected Anode Particles, Anode, and Lithium-Ion Battery | MEDLEY, JOHN SAMUEL | 1751 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Nov 23, 2021 |
| 17402188 | Prelithiated Anode, Lithium-Ion Battery Containing Same, and Method of Producing Same | CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE | 1721 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Aug 13, 2021 |
| 17175954 | SOLID-STATE MEDIUM FOR LITHIUM ION TRANSPORT, LITHIUM BATTERIES AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | 1729 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Feb 15, 2021 |
| 17129127 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL ELASTIC POLYMER LAYER FOR A LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | LYNCH, VICTORIA HOM | 1724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Dec 21, 2020 |
| 17121435 | LITHIUM-PROTECTING POLYMER COMPOSITE LAYER FOR A LITHIUM METAL SECONDARY BATTERY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | CHMIELECKI, SCOTT J | 1729 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Dec 14, 2020 |
| 17118980 | ELASTIC CROSSLINKED POLYMER-ENCAPSULATED ANODE PARTICLES FOR LITHIUM BATTERIES AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING | SMITH, JEREMIAH R | 1723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 120d overdue | Pending | Dec 11, 2020 |
| 17063567 | ELECTRODE STRUCTURES FOR LITHIUM BATTERIES | CHMIELECKI, SCOTT J | 1729 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 85d overdue | Pending | Oct 05, 2020 |
| 17005609 | GRAPHENE-PROTECTED LITHIOPHILIC OR NATHIOPHILIC METAL ANODE FOR AN ALKALI METAL BATTERY | HORNSBY, BARTHOLOMEW ANDREW | 1728 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Aug 28, 2020 |
| 16878282 | CONDUCTING POLYMER NETWORK/EXPANDED GRAPHITE-ENABLED NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR A LITHIUM-ION BATTERY | DOMONE, CHRISTOPHER P | 1725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2020 |
| 16833616 | GRAPHITIC FILM-ENABLED BATTERY COOLING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME | LING, FOR K. | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2020 |
| 16773227 | POROUS GRAPHENE/CARBON COMPOSITE BALLS FOR AN ALKALI METAL BATTERY ANODE | WYLUDA, KIMBERLY | 1725 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Jan 27, 2020 |
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