Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hheli LLC is managing 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters involve 4 distinct examiners and are distributed across 2 distinct art units. This arrangement shows that while the company's work is concentrated in 2 specific technical divisions, it is being reviewed by a relatively large group of individual examiners. This can lead to varied perspectives on the patentability of the company's chemical claims.
VO, JIMMY is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is currently handling 1 pending office action, while the company manages a total of 4 pending actions across its various filings. With 4 distinct examiners involved, the company must be prepared for different sets of examiner preferences and interpretations. Although the work is limited to 2 distinct art units, the high number of examiners relative to the number of pending actions suggests a lack of consolidation. Practitioners must carefully track the active filings to ensure that arguments made to 1 examiner do not conflict with those made to the others in the same technology area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VO, JIMMY | 1 | 73.6% | +21.9% |
| PARK, SAMUEL SUNWOOK | 1 | — | — |
| ZHANG, HAIXIA | 1 | 62.9% | +17.8% |
| JEPPSON, PAMELA J | 1 | 64.1% | +24.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18635852 | SURFACE-FUNCTIONALIZED METAL OXIDE NANOMATERIALS AND USE IN BATTERY ELECTRODES | VO, JIMMY | — |
| 18234779 | DYNAMIC PARALLEL TO SERIES CONTROLLER | PARK, SAMUEL SUNWOOK | — |
| 18049079 | POLYMER DIPPED POUCH CELL | ZHANG, HAIXIA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17320725 | BATTERY CHARGER | JEPPSON, PAMELA J | 103d overdue |
| 18635852 | SURFACE-FUNCTIONALIZED METAL OXIDE NANOMATERIALS AND USE IN BATTERY ELECTRODES | VO, JIMMY | — |
| 18049079 | POLYMER DIPPED POUCH CELL | ZHANG, HAIXIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1723 | 2 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18635852 | SURFACE-FUNCTIONALIZED METAL OXIDE NANOMATERIALS AND USE IN BATTERY ELECTRODES | VO, JIMMY | 1723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18234779 | DYNAMIC PARALLEL TO SERIES CONTROLLER | PARK, SAMUEL SUNWOOK | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 18049079 | POLYMER DIPPED POUCH CELL | ZHANG, HAIXIA | 1723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2022 |
| 17320725 | BATTERY CHARGER | JEPPSON, PAMELA J | 2859 | §103 | Final Rejection | 103d overdue | Pending | May 14, 2021 |
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