Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Honeycomb Battery Company currently manages a portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 8 pending office actions. These matters are widely distributed across 8 distinct examiners, meaning that every active office action is being handled by a different individual. This lack of concentration among examiners suggests that the company's prosecution strategy must account for 8 different sets of examiner preferences.
The technical breadth of the portfolio is further evidenced by the involvement of 7 distinct art units. Because the 8 pending office actions are spread across 7 distinct art units, the company's intellectual property likely spans a diverse range of specialized sub-fields. This distribution requires the applicant to navigate multiple sets of prior art and procedural norms within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
JACOBSON, SARAH JORDAN is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that there are 8 pending office actions in total, this busiest examiner handles a portion of the active workload. This high level of diversification across 8 distinct examiners ensures that no single person has a dominant impact on the company's current patenting efforts.
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 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (88%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JACOBSON, SARAH JORDAN | 1 | 51.9% | +76.5% |
| ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM | 1 | 69.0% | +6.5% |
| REDDY, SATHAVARAM I | 1 | 47.2% | +50.4% |
| YOUNG, WILLIAM D | 1 | 54.3% | +15.2% |
| DOVE, TRACY MAE | 1 | 68.9% | +9.6% |
| GODO, OLATUNJI A | 1 | 85.9% | +9.0% |
| TAN, ESTHER JIESI | 1 | — | — |
| MARTIN, ANGELA J | 1 | 67.3% | -31.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18317348 | Thermally Stable Composite Separator for a Lithium Secondary Battery and Manufacturing Method | GODO, OLATUNJI A | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18327936 | Hybrid Separator Comprising Ceramic-Coated Thermally Stable Polymer Fibers for a Lithium Battery or Sodium Battery and Manufacturing Method | DOVE, TRACY MAE | 30d overdue |
| 18494415 | Flame-Resistant Solid-State Batteries and Manufacturing Method | JACOBSON, SARAH JORDAN | — |
| 18340369 | Composite Particulates for Lithium Batteries | ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM | — |
| 18335230 | Porous Carbon/Semiconductor Nanowire Particulates for Battery Applications and Production Process | REDDY, SATHAVARAM I | — |
| 18333876 | CARBON- OR GRAPHITE-BASED ANODE ACTIVE MATERIALS FROM BIOMASS-DERIVED ACTIVATED CARBON | YOUNG, WILLIAM D | — |
| 18316765 | Protected Anode Active Materials, Anode, and Sodium Ion Battery | TAN, ESTHER JIESI | — |
| 18188889 | METHOD OF MASS-PRODUCING SILICON OXIDE (SiOx) POWDER AND ANODE FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES | MARTIN, ANGELA J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18494415 | Flame-Resistant Solid-State Batteries and Manufacturing Method | JACOBSON, SARAH JORDAN | — |
| 18335230 | Porous Carbon/Semiconductor Nanowire Particulates for Battery Applications and Production Process | REDDY, SATHAVARAM I | — |
| 18333876 | CARBON- OR GRAPHITE-BASED ANODE ACTIVE MATERIALS FROM BIOMASS-DERIVED ACTIVATED CARBON | YOUNG, WILLIAM D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1725 | 2 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1752 | 1 |
| 1751 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18494415 | Flame-Resistant Solid-State Batteries and Manufacturing Method | JACOBSON, SARAH JORDAN | 4100 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
| 18340369 | Composite Particulates for Lithium Batteries | ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM | 1725 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 18335230 | Porous Carbon/Semiconductor Nanowire Particulates for Battery Applications and Production Process | REDDY, SATHAVARAM I | 1718 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
| 18333876 | CARBON- OR GRAPHITE-BASED ANODE ACTIVE MATERIALS FROM BIOMASS-DERIVED ACTIVATED CARBON | YOUNG, WILLIAM D | 1761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 18327936 | Hybrid Separator Comprising Ceramic-Coated Thermally Stable Polymer Fibers for a Lithium Battery or Sodium Battery and Manufacturing Method | DOVE, TRACY MAE | 1725 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
| 18317348 | Thermally Stable Composite Separator for a Lithium Secondary Battery and Manufacturing Method | GODO, OLATUNJI A | 1752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2023 |
| 18316765 | Protected Anode Active Materials, Anode, and Sodium Ion Battery | TAN, ESTHER JIESI | 1751 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
| 18188889 | METHOD OF MASS-PRODUCING SILICON OXIDE (SiOx) POWDER AND ANODE FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES | MARTIN, ANGELA J | 1727 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 23, 2023 |
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