Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd.

8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
7
Medium (88%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (62%)
§102 only2 (25%)
No statute on record1 (12%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

8
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LAIOS, MARIA J 2 68.5% +18.1%
GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE 1 65.5% +33.1%
CHAU, LINDA N 1 43.6% +16.0%
VAN OUDENAREN, MATTHEW W 1 77.9% +11.0%
CREPEAU, JONATHAN 1 73.2% +18.1%
SMITH, JEREMIAH R 1 58.2% +25.2%
USYATINSKY, ALEXANDER 1 82.7% +19.6%

Interview Candidates (8)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18038616 NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY USYATINSKY, ALEXANDER 60d overdue
18261853 BATTERY PACK VAN OUDENAREN, MATTHEW W 28d overdue
18274899 NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERIES, AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY LAIOS, MARIA J 3d overdue
18277190 NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERIES, AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE 9d
18264588 POWER SUPPLY DEVICE CHAU, LINDA N 12d
18267323 NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY SMITH, JEREMIAH R 16d
18262029 POWER SOURCE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME LAIOS, MARIA J 28d
18261281 BATTERY PACK CREPEAU, JONATHAN 34d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1727 2
1721 1
1785 1
1728 1
1725 1
1723 1
1751 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18277190 NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERIES, AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE 1721 §102 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Aug 14, 2023
18264588 POWER SUPPLY DEVICE CHAU, LINDA N 1785 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Aug 08, 2023
18274899 NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERIES, AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY LAIOS, MARIA J 1727 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jul 28, 2023
18262029 POWER SOURCE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME LAIOS, MARIA J 1727 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jul 19, 2023
18261853 BATTERY PACK VAN OUDENAREN, MATTHEW W 1728 §102 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Jul 18, 2023
18261281 BATTERY PACK CREPEAU, JONATHAN 1725 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jul 13, 2023
18267323 NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY SMITH, JEREMIAH R 1723 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Jun 14, 2023
18038616 NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY USYATINSKY, ALEXANDER 1751 Other Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending May 24, 2023

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