Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 7 (88%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | 2 | 29.9% | +32.9% |
| JONES, GORDON A | 1 | 60.7% | +38.0% |
| DIGNAN, MICHAEL L | 1 | 57.9% | +16.4% |
| CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG | 1 | 45.7% | +7.2% |
| SMITH, JEREMIAH R | 1 | 58.1% | +25.4% |
| THOMAS, BRENT C | 1 | 50.1% | +26.1% |
| ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | 1 | 55.7% | +24.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16288968 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING PARTICULATES OF GRAPHENE/CARBON-ENCAPSULATED ALKALI METAL, ELECTRODES, AND ALKALI METAL BATTERY | MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | 18d overdue |
| 16580334 | PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR GRAPHENE-ENABLED BI-POLAR ELECTRODE AND BATTERY CONTAINING SAME | MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | 72d |
| 16397284 | EXPANDED GRAPHITE-ENHANCED VAPOR-BASED HEAT TRANSFER DEVICE AND PRODUCTION PROCESS | JONES, GORDON A | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16364220 | GRAPHENE-ENCAPSULATED GRAPHITE-SUPPORTED ANODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES | DIGNAN, MICHAEL L | 73d overdue |
| 15952532 | ALKALI METAL-SELENIUM SECONDARY BATTERY CONTAINING A CATHODE OF PROTECTED SELENIUM | THOMAS, BRENT C | 42d overdue |
| 16288968 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING PARTICULATES OF GRAPHENE/CARBON-ENCAPSULATED ALKALI METAL, ELECTRODES, AND ALKALI METAL BATTERY | MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | 18d overdue |
| 16120875 | METHOD OF IMPROVING ANODE STABILITY IN A LITHIUM METAL SECONDARY BATTERY | SMITH, JEREMIAH R | 19d |
| 15391379 | Process for Flexible and Shape-Conformal Cable-Shape Alkali Metal-Sulfur Batteries | ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | 33d |
| 16580334 | PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR GRAPHENE-ENABLED BI-POLAR ELECTRODE AND BATTERY CONTAINING SAME | MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | 72d |
| 16397284 | EXPANDED GRAPHITE-ENHANCED VAPOR-BASED HEAT TRANSFER DEVICE AND PRODUCTION PROCESS | JONES, GORDON A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1718 | 2 |
| 1723 | 2 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1751 | 1 |
| 1724 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16580334 | PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR GRAPHENE-ENABLED BI-POLAR ELECTRODE AND BATTERY CONTAINING SAME | MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | 1718 | §103 | Final Rejection | 72d | Pending | Sep 24, 2019 |
| 16397284 | EXPANDED GRAPHITE-ENHANCED VAPOR-BASED HEAT TRANSFER DEVICE AND PRODUCTION PROCESS | JONES, GORDON A | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2019 |
| 16364220 | GRAPHENE-ENCAPSULATED GRAPHITE-SUPPORTED ANODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES | DIGNAN, MICHAEL L | 1723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Mar 26, 2019 |
| 16288968 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING PARTICULATES OF GRAPHENE/CARBON-ENCAPSULATED ALKALI METAL, ELECTRODES, AND ALKALI METAL BATTERY | MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | 1718 | §103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2019 |
| 16246896 | GRAPHENE/SILICON NANOWIRE HYBRID MATERIAL FOR A LITHIUM-ION BATTERY | CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG | 1751 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2019 |
| 16120875 | METHOD OF IMPROVING ANODE STABILITY IN A LITHIUM METAL SECONDARY BATTERY | SMITH, JEREMIAH R | 1723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Sep 04, 2018 |
| 15952532 | ALKALI METAL-SELENIUM SECONDARY BATTERY CONTAINING A CATHODE OF PROTECTED SELENIUM | THOMAS, BRENT C | 1724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Apr 13, 2018 |
| 15391379 | Process for Flexible and Shape-Conformal Cable-Shape Alkali Metal-Sulfur Batteries | ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | 1727 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Dec 27, 2016 |
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