Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Microvast Power Systems Co. Ltd. currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners, which indicates a one-to-one ratio of examiners to pending matters. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit suggests that all 4 pending actions are being reviewed within the same specialized examination group at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MATHEW, ISWARYA, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since each of the 4 distinct examiners holds exactly 1 pending action, the prosecution is decentralized across the individual examiners. This distribution means that the company must navigate four different sets of examiner preferences despite the matters being located in a single art unit.
Practitioners should note that the 1 distinct art unit provides a common administrative framework for all 4 pending office actions. This allows for potential consistency in the application of art unit-specific policies even though 4 distinct examiners are involved. The lack of concentration under any single examiner suggests that the company is receiving a broad range of individual feedback within its primary technical silo.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATHEW, ISWARYA | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| ARMSTRONG, KAREN JOYCE | 1 | 68.6% | +7.5% |
| STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 1 | 60.2% | +25.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17788752 | Electrolyte containing solid particles and lithium ion secondary battery | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 368d overdue |
| 18631083 | BATTERY CASE | MATHEW, ISWARYA | — |
| 18561743 | POSITIVE CURRENT COLLECTOR PLATE AND CYLINDRICAL BATTERY | ARMSTRONG, KAREN JOYCE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17788752 | Electrolyte containing solid particles and lithium ion secondary battery | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 368d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2178 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18631083 | BATTERY CASE | MATHEW, ISWARYA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18561743 | POSITIVE CURRENT COLLECTOR PLATE AND CYLINDRICAL BATTERY | ARMSTRONG, KAREN JOYCE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 17788752 | Electrolyte containing solid particles and lithium ion secondary battery | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 368d overdue | Pending | Jun 24, 2022 |
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