Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
International Battery Company Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to distinct examiners. However, the prosecution is centralized within 1 distinct art unit.
MURPHY, RYAN PATRICK is the busiest examiner for the company. This examiner handles 1 pending office action. The fact that multiple examiners are working within a single distinct art unit indicates that while the technical oversight is concentrated, the individual examiner interactions will vary.
Practitioners should observe that the pending office actions are subject to the same art unit's standards. This concentration in a single distinct art unit provides a stable baseline for prosecution, even as different examiners apply their individual interpretations to the Chemistry & Materials filings. This structure allows for some consistency in procedural expectations.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MURPHY, RYAN PATRICK | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| KOPEC, MARK T | 1 | 84.5% | +12.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18419556 | LI ION PRODUCT FOR ACCESSIBLE ENERGY DENSITY OPTIMIZATION | MURPHY, RYAN PATRICK | — |
| 18401130 | X-PROCESSING OF NMC CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL (CAM) FOR LONGER CYCLE LIFE AND STABILITY | KOPEC, MARK T | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18401130 | X-PROCESSING OF NMC CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL (CAM) FOR LONGER CYCLE LIFE AND STABILITY | KOPEC, MARK T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18419556 | LI ION PRODUCT FOR ACCESSIBLE ENERGY DENSITY OPTIMIZATION | MURPHY, RYAN PATRICK | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18401130 | X-PROCESSING OF NMC CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL (CAM) FOR LONGER CYCLE LIFE AND STABILITY | KOPEC, MARK T | 1762 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
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