Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lockheed Martin Energy LLC has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct art units, indicating different chemical or material classifications for their energy solutions. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, with MCCARTY, PATRICK M identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. This distribution across two examiners and two art units shows a balanced and decentralized prosecution status for their current filings.
For a practitioner, the involvement of 2 distinct examiners means that each of the 2 pending office actions requires a separate strategy. While MCCARTY, PATRICK M is the busiest examiner, he only manages one of the active cases. The distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations touch on different specialized fields within chemistry. This requires the legal team to be prepared for different examination styles and technical standards. The current data reflects a prosecution environment where each application is subject to a unique set of examiner expectations, with no concentration of cases in a single art unit or under a single official.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCARTY, PATRICK M | 1 | 62.4% | +21.4% |
| AKHTAR, KIRAN QURAISHI | 1 | 65.0% | -5.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18343547 | MITIGATING INTER-STACK SHUNT CURRENT IN A FLOW BATTERY | AKHTAR, KIRAN QURAISHI | 5d |
| 18725215 | ENCAPSULATED ELECTRODE AND THE MEANS TO ATTACH IT TO A SOFT GOODS ASSEMB LY (SGA) | MCCARTY, PATRICK M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18725215 | ENCAPSULATED ELECTRODE AND THE MEANS TO ATTACH IT TO A SOFT GOODS ASSEMB LY (SGA) | MCCARTY, PATRICK M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1774 | 1 |
| 1751 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18725215 | ENCAPSULATED ELECTRODE AND THE MEANS TO ATTACH IT TO A SOFT GOODS ASSEMB LY (SGA) | MCCARTY, PATRICK M | 1774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18343547 | MITIGATING INTER-STACK SHUNT CURRENT IN A FLOW BATTERY | AKHTAR, KIRAN QURAISHI | 1751 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialLockheed Martin Energy LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Patrick M Mccarty has the most, with 1 of Lockheed Martin Energy LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
