Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 14, 2026

Honeycomb Battery Company

8 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

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.

8
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Multi-statute (no §101)8 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
88% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
12% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
JACOBSON, SARAH JORDAN 1 59.1% +69.2%
ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM 1 71.6% +6.1%
REDDY, SATHAVARAM I 1 47.0% +51.7%
YOUNG, WILLIAM D 1 54.4% +15.4%
TAN, ESTHER JIESI 1
RUMP, RICHARD M 1 74.6% +20.1%
MARTIN, ANGELA J 1 67.0% -31.9%
NEWELL, ANNA GOULD 1 52.2% +48.2%

Hard Cases (8)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18171505 Solution Deposited Silicon in Porous Conductive Particles for Use in a Lithium Battery Anode NEWELL, ANNA GOULD 15d overdue
18310855 PRODUCTION OF CARBON- OR GRAPHITE-BASED ANODE ACTIVE MATERIALS FROM BIOMASS FEEDSTOCK RUMP, RICHARD M 70d
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

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18171505 Solution Deposited Silicon in Porous Conductive Particles for Use in a Lithium Battery Anode NEWELL, ANNA GOULD 15d overdue
18310855 PRODUCTION OF CARBON- OR GRAPHITE-BASED ANODE ACTIVE MATERIALS FROM BIOMASS FEEDSTOCK RUMP, RICHARD M 70d
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

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
4100 1
1725 1
1718 1
1761 1
1751 1
1759 1
1727 1
1726 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 13, 2023
18316765 Protected Anode Active Materials, Anode, and Sodium Ion Battery TAN, ESTHER JIESI 1751 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 12, 2023
18310855 PRODUCTION OF CARBON- OR GRAPHITE-BASED ANODE ACTIVE MATERIALS FROM BIOMASS FEEDSTOCK RUMP, RICHARD M 1759 §102§103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending May 02, 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
18171505 Solution Deposited Silicon in Porous Conductive Particles for Use in a Lithium Battery Anode NEWELL, ANNA GOULD 1726 §103§112 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Feb 20, 2023

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