Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mu Ionic Solutions Corporation currently manages 8 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 8 distinct examiners, indicating that every pending office action is assigned to a different individual. The prosecution effort spans 6 distinct art units, which suggests the company's innovations intersect several specialized technical classifications within the broader chemistry field. This diversity in art units requires a strategy that accounts for different examination standards across the office.
The workload is highly fragmented among the assigned personnel. CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, yet this individual is responsible for only 1 pending office action. This distribution means that no single examiner holds a concentrated share of the 8 pending office actions. Consequently, the legal team must navigate 8 different examiner styles and 6 distinct art units simultaneously, as the 8 pending office actions are not clustered under any specific individual.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 6 (75%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG | 1 | 45.8% | +7.2% |
| WEINER, LAURA S | 1 | 85.3% | +14.3% |
| WANG, EUGENIA | 1 | 54.4% | +34.8% |
| IANNUCCI, LOUISE JAMES | 1 | — | — |
| PILLAY, DEVINA | 1 | 44.2% | +25.9% |
| MCNULTY, SEAMUS PATRICK | 1 | 42.9% | +32.1% |
| CHOI, EVERETT TIMOTHY | 1 | 10.0% | -13.3% |
| LI, AIQUN | 1 | 63.8% | +23.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18397118 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE BATTERY USING SAME | WEINER, LAURA S | 30d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17932917 | NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE AND ENERGY DEVICE USING SAID NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE | CHOI, EVERETT TIMOTHY | 28d overdue |
| 18529463 | NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE, AND NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE BATTERY USING SAID NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE | WANG, EUGENIA | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18118320 | Non-Aqueous Liquid Electrolyte, and Non-Aqueous Liquid-Electrolyte Secondary Cell in Which Said Non-Aqueous Liquid Electrolyte is Used | MCNULTY, SEAMUS PATRICK | 66d overdue |
| 18397118 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE BATTERY USING SAME | WEINER, LAURA S | 30d overdue |
| 18529463 | NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE, AND NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE BATTERY USING SAID NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE | WANG, EUGENIA | — |
| 18232626 | Nonaqueous Electrolytic Solution and Nonaqueous Electrolytic Solution Battery | PILLAY, DEVINA | — |
| 17837270 | Non-Aqueous Electrolyte Solution and Energy Device | LI, AIQUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1751 | 2 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| 1726 | 1 |
| 1752 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18413101 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE, NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY, AND ENERGY DEVICE | CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG | 1751 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 18397118 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE BATTERY USING SAME | WEINER, LAURA S | 1723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18529463 | NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE, AND NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE BATTERY USING SAID NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE | WANG, EUGENIA | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18369699 | Non-Aqueous Electrolyte and Non-Aqueous Electrolyte Battery Using Same | IANNUCCI, LOUISE JAMES | 1721 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18232626 | Nonaqueous Electrolytic Solution and Nonaqueous Electrolytic Solution Battery | PILLAY, DEVINA | 1726 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18118320 | Non-Aqueous Liquid Electrolyte, and Non-Aqueous Liquid-Electrolyte Secondary Cell in Which Said Non-Aqueous Liquid Electrolyte is Used | MCNULTY, SEAMUS PATRICK | 1752 | §103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
| 17932917 | NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE AND ENERGY DEVICE USING SAID NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE | CHOI, EVERETT TIMOTHY | 1751 | §102 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Sep 16, 2022 |
| 17837270 | Non-Aqueous Electrolyte Solution and Energy Device | LI, AIQUN | 1766 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2022 |
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