Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
QuantumScape Battery Inc. has 8 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 8 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, indicating that examiner assignments are fully distributed while some art units contain more than one pending matter. The examiner count matches the office-action count, so no examiner handles more than one matter in the supplied data.
WIESE, NOAH S is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The portfolio therefore lacks a dominant examiner relationship, but the lower art-unit count creates an opportunity to coordinate technical positions within shared examination areas.
Counsel should combine matter-specific examiner analysis with art-unit-level issue tracking. Consistent treatment of recurring chemistry and materials issues may support efficiency, while individual responses remain necessary because examiner assignments are distinct.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 4 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WIESE, NOAH S | 1 | 83.4% | -1.8% |
| HILTON, ALBERT MICHAEL | 1 | 63.4% | +41.8% |
| WILSON, GREGORY A | 1 | 81.9% | +6.9% |
| LUSTGRAAF, BENJAMIN T | 1 | 58.3% | +21.4% |
| MCCONNELL, WYATT P | 1 | 80.8% | +9.2% |
| PACHECO, ALEXIS BOATENG | 1 | 77.7% | +12.7% |
| CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | 1 | 50.2% | +27.6% |
| SMITH, JEREMIAH R | 1 | 58.1% | +24.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18822053 | LITHIUM STUFFED GARNET SETTER PLATES FOR SOLID ELECTROLYTE FABRICATION | WIESE, NOAH S | — |
| 18776978 | RAPID CERAMIC PROCESSING TECHNIQUES AND EQUIPMENT | WILSON, GREGORY A | — |
| 18703169 | CATHOLYTES FOR A SOLID-STATE BATTERY | LUSTGRAAF, BENJAMIN T | — |
| 18495873 | ELECTROLYTE SEPARATORS INCLUDING LITHIUM BOROHYDRIDE AND COMPOSITE ELECTROLYTE SEPARATORS OF LITHIUM-STUFFED GARNET AND LITHIUM BOROHYDRIDE | MCCONNELL, WYATT P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17281159 | METHODS OF MAKING AND USING AN ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL COMPRISING AN INTERLAYER | SMITH, JEREMIAH R | 96d overdue |
| 18339707 | METAL NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ULTRASONIC CHARGING | PACHECO, ALEXIS BOATENG | 46d |
| 18835996 | CALENDERED CATHODE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING THEREOF | HILTON, ALBERT MICHAEL | — |
| 18703169 | CATHOLYTES FOR A SOLID-STATE BATTERY | LUSTGRAAF, BENJAMIN T | — |
| 18044200 | CATHODE COATING | CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1723 | 2 |
| 1727 | 2 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| 1729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18822053 | LITHIUM STUFFED GARNET SETTER PLATES FOR SOLID ELECTROLYTE FABRICATION | WIESE, NOAH S | 1731 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18835996 | CALENDERED CATHODE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING THEREOF | HILTON, ALBERT MICHAEL | 1723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 18776978 | RAPID CERAMIC PROCESSING TECHNIQUES AND EQUIPMENT | WILSON, GREGORY A | 3762 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18703169 | CATHOLYTES FOR A SOLID-STATE BATTERY | LUSTGRAAF, BENJAMIN T | 1727 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18495873 | ELECTROLYTE SEPARATORS INCLUDING LITHIUM BOROHYDRIDE AND COMPOSITE ELECTROLYTE SEPARATORS OF LITHIUM-STUFFED GARNET AND LITHIUM BOROHYDRIDE | MCCONNELL, WYATT P | 1727 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 18339707 | METAL NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ULTRASONIC CHARGING | PACHECO, ALEXIS BOATENG | 2859 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18044200 | CATHODE COATING | CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | 1729 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
| 17281159 | METHODS OF MAKING AND USING AN ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL COMPRISING AN INTERLAYER | SMITH, JEREMIAH R | 1723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 96d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialQuantumScape Battery Inc. has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 8 examiners.
Noah S Wiese has the most, with 1 of QuantumScape Battery Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
