Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Guangdong Mic-Power New Energy Co. Ltd. maintains 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, showing that the company's current filings are being reviewed by a diverse group of specialists. This spread suggests that the company's chemistry-related innovations cover a broad range of technical sub-fields, each requiring different expertise at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner, CHAU, LINDA N, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This indicates that the 4 pending actions are evenly spread, with no single examiner handling more than one case. Because the portfolio involves 4 distinct art units, practitioners must be prepared for varying examination timelines and potentially different interpretations of patentability across the units. The lack of concentration in a single art unit or under a single examiner means that the company's overall prosecution success is not dependent on any one individual, but rather on navigating four separate examination processes simultaneously.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAU, LINDA N | 1 | 44.6% | +16.0% |
| WYLUDA, KIMBERLY | 1 | 71.2% | +10.6% |
| GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE | 1 | 66.3% | +34.2% |
| LU, ZIHENG NMN | 1 | 84.3% | +15.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17754251 | ELECTRODE PAD FOR BATTERY ROLL CORE, AND CYLINDRICAL OR BUTTON BATTERY | LU, ZIHENG NMN | 50d overdue |
| 18022188 | ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE AND CELL THEREOF | CHAU, LINDA N | 26d |
| 17789960 | ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE | GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE | 27d |
| 17923720 | BUTTON BATTERY OR CYLINDRICAL BATTERY | WYLUDA, KIMBERLY | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17754251 | ELECTRODE PAD FOR BATTERY ROLL CORE, AND CYLINDRICAL OR BUTTON BATTERY | LU, ZIHENG NMN | 50d overdue |
| 18022188 | ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE AND CELL THEREOF | CHAU, LINDA N | 26d |
| 17789960 | ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE | GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE | 27d |
| 17923720 | BUTTON BATTERY OR CYLINDRICAL BATTERY | WYLUDA, KIMBERLY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1785 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| 1752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18022188 | ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE AND CELL THEREOF | CHAU, LINDA N | 1785 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Feb 20, 2023 |
| 17923720 | BUTTON BATTERY OR CYLINDRICAL BATTERY | WYLUDA, KIMBERLY | 1725 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2022 |
| 17789960 | ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE | GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE | 1721 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jun 29, 2022 |
| 17754251 | ELECTRODE PAD FOR BATTERY ROLL CORE, AND CYLINDRICAL OR BUTTON BATTERY | LU, ZIHENG NMN | 1752 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2022 |
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