Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Posco Future M Co. Ltd. currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The distribution of these actions is spread across 4 distinct examiners and an equal number of distinct art units. This distribution of actions and examiners suggests a diverse set of filings rather than a concentrated push in a single niche. The lack of overlap between art units indicates that each pending matter likely addresses a different technical sub-field within the broader chemistry category.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is WOLFORD, KURT JOSEPH, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner only handles a portion of the pending actions, the prosecution workload is distributed across the legal staff. Practitioners should prepare for varied examiner behaviors and differing procedural norms across the different art units involved in these proceedings. The absence of examiner concentration means that no single individual's decision-making style will dominate the outcome of the current pending portfolio.
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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOLFORD, KURT JOSEPH | 1 | 74.8% | +28.5% |
| WHITE, SADIE | 1 | 48.8% | +31.6% |
| ZHANG, HAIXIA | 1 | 62.9% | +17.8% |
| CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | 1 | 50.3% | +29.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18717018 | APPARATUS FOR FIRING CATHODE MATERIAL OF SECONDARY BATTERY | WOLFORD, KURT JOSEPH | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17787737 | METHOD FOR PREPARING SECONDARY BATTERY CATHODE MATERIAL | ZHANG, HAIXIA | 9d overdue |
| 18037267 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING NEGATIVE ELECTRODE MANUFACTURED USING SAME | WHITE, SADIE | 21d |
| 17787006 | CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING SAME | CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | 30d |
| 18717018 | APPARATUS FOR FIRING CATHODE MATERIAL OF SECONDARY BATTERY | WOLFORD, KURT JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| 1729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18717018 | APPARATUS FOR FIRING CATHODE MATERIAL OF SECONDARY BATTERY | WOLFORD, KURT JOSEPH | 3762 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18037267 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING NEGATIVE ELECTRODE MANUFACTURED USING SAME | WHITE, SADIE | 1721 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | May 16, 2023 |
| 17787737 | METHOD FOR PREPARING SECONDARY BATTERY CATHODE MATERIAL | ZHANG, HAIXIA | 1723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Jun 21, 2022 |
| 17787006 | CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING SAME | CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | 1729 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
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