Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
9 pending office actions • 7 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Quantumscape Battery Inc. has 9 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 9 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units. MURATA, AUSTIN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action.
The 9 pending office actions are spread across 7 distinct art units, indicating a departmental footprint within the chemistry and materials sector. Each of the 9 distinct examiners is handling exactly 1 action. MURATA, AUSTIN, as the busiest examiner, is responsible for 1 pending action, showing that the workload is evenly dispersed across the assigned examiners. With 9 pending office actions and 7 distinct art units, the company's prosecution is decentralized, requiring coordination across multiple specialized groups. This distribution ensures that the 1 pending action assigned to MURATA, AUSTIN is just 1 part of a larger review process within the Chemistry & Materials area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (11%) |
| §103 only | 5 (56%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MURATA, AUSTIN | 1 | 60.9% | +21.2% |
| HILTON, ALBERT MICHAEL | 1 | 62.4% | +43.1% |
| WILSON, GREGORY A | 1 | 81.8% | +6.9% |
| LUSTGRAAF, BENJAMIN T | 1 | 58.3% | +21.4% |
| MCCONNELL, WYATT P | 1 | 80.6% | +9.4% |
| CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE | 1 | 66.7% | +25.0% |
| PACHECO, ALEXIS BOATENG | 1 | 77.7% | +12.6% |
| CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | 1 | 50.3% | +29.0% |
| SMITH, JEREMIAH R | 1 | 58.2% | +25.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 18477484 | LITHIUM-STUFFED GARNET THIN FILMS AND PELLETS HAVING AN OXYFLUORINATED AND/OR FLUORINATED SURFACE AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE THIN FILMS AND PELLETS | CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17281159 | METHODS OF MAKING AND USING AN ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL COMPRISING AN INTERLAYER | SMITH, JEREMIAH R | 96d 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 |
| 18835996 | CALENDERED CATHODE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING THEREOF | HILTON, ALBERT MICHAEL | — |
| 18703169 | CATHOLYTES FOR A SOLID-STATE BATTERY | LUSTGRAAF, BENJAMIN T | — |
| 18477484 | LITHIUM-STUFFED GARNET THIN FILMS AND PELLETS HAVING AN OXYFLUORINATED AND/OR FLUORINATED SURFACE AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE THIN FILMS AND PELLETS | CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE | — |
| 18044200 | CATHODE COATING | CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1723 | 2 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| 1729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19013591 | LITHIUM-STUFFED GARNET ELECTROLYTES WITH A REDUCED SURFACE DEFECT DENSITY AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | MURATA, AUSTIN | 1712 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 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 | — | §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 |
| 18477484 | LITHIUM-STUFFED GARNET THIN FILMS AND PELLETS HAVING AN OXYFLUORINATED AND/OR FLUORINATED SURFACE AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE THIN FILMS AND PELLETS | CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE | 1721 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 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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