Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Quantumscape Battery Inc.

4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)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%)
4
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
75% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
25% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MURATA, AUSTIN 2 60.3% +20.5%
PACHECO, ALEXIS BOATENG 1 78.2% +13.1%
SMITH, JEREMIAH R 1 58.2% +25.2%

Interview Candidates (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17281159 METHODS OF MAKING AND USING AN ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL COMPRISING AN INTERLAYER SMITH, JEREMIAH R 96d overdue
18541108 THIN FILM LITHIUM CONDUCTING POWDER MATERIAL DEPOSITION FROM FLUX MURATA, AUSTIN 18d overdue
19013591 LITHIUM-STUFFED GARNET ELECTROLYTES WITH A REDUCED SURFACE DEFECT DENSITY AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME MURATA, AUSTIN 29d
18339707 METAL NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ULTRASONIC CHARGING PACHECO, ALEXIS BOATENG 46d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1712 2
2859 1
1723 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19013591 LITHIUM-STUFFED GARNET ELECTROLYTES WITH A REDUCED SURFACE DEFECT DENSITY AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME MURATA, AUSTIN 1712 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jan 08, 2025
18541108 THIN FILM LITHIUM CONDUCTING POWDER MATERIAL DEPOSITION FROM FLUX MURATA, AUSTIN 1712 §103 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2023
18339707 METAL NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ULTRASONIC CHARGING PACHECO, ALEXIS BOATENG 2859 §103 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Jun 22, 2023
17281159 METHODS OF MAKING AND USING AN ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL COMPRISING AN INTERLAYER SMITH, JEREMIAH R 1723 §103 Final Rejection 96d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2021

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