Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Research Institute of Industrial Science & Technology has 6 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The portfolio involves 6 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, so the actions are distributed across examiners while one art unit accounts for more than one assignment.
APICELLA, KARIE O is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. No examiner has a larger individual pending load in the supplied data, which supports coordinating responses by examiner and tracking the art-unit allocation separately.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| APICELLA, KARIE O | 1 | 80.6% | +12.3% |
| WANG, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 53.5% | +22.1% |
| EOFF, ANCA | 1 | 80.1% | +10.8% |
| JELSMA, JONATHAN G | 1 | 69.9% | +14.7% |
| WEST, ROBERT GENE | 1 | 73.8% | +21.7% |
| SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL | 1 | 77.8% | -2.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18720912 | CATHOD ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY, CATHODE, AND ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY | APICELLA, KARIE O | — |
| 18694155 | METHOD FOR RECOVERING LITHIUM FROM WASTE LITHIUM BATTERY | WANG, NICHOLAS A | — |
| 18268764 | POSITIVE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERY, METHOD OF PREPARING SAME, AND RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERY INCLUDING SAME | EOFF, ANCA | — |
| 17787101 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ANODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, ANODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, MANUFACTURED BY SAME METHOD, FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING ANODE ACTIVE MATERIAL | WEST, ROBERT GENE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18720912 | CATHOD ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY, CATHODE, AND ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY | APICELLA, KARIE O | — |
| 18694155 | METHOD FOR RECOVERING LITHIUM FROM WASTE LITHIUM BATTERY | WANG, NICHOLAS A | — |
| 18268764 | POSITIVE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERY, METHOD OF PREPARING SAME, AND RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERY INCLUDING SAME | EOFF, ANCA | — |
| 18268085 | METAL-CARBON COMPOSITE ANODE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING SAME | JELSMA, JONATHAN G | — |
| 17787101 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ANODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, ANODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, MANUFACTURED BY SAME METHOD, FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING ANODE ACTIVE MATERIAL | WEST, ROBERT GENE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1722 | 2 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18720912 | CATHOD ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY, CATHODE, AND ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY | APICELLA, KARIE O | 1725 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18694155 | METHOD FOR RECOVERING LITHIUM FROM WASTE LITHIUM BATTERY | WANG, NICHOLAS A | 1734 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18268764 | POSITIVE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERY, METHOD OF PREPARING SAME, AND RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERY INCLUDING SAME | EOFF, ANCA | 1722 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 18268085 | METAL-CARBON COMPOSITE ANODE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING SAME | JELSMA, JONATHAN G | 1722 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 17787101 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ANODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, ANODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, MANUFACTURED BY SAME METHOD, FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING ANODE ACTIVE MATERIAL | WEST, ROBERT GENE | 1721 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2022 |
| 17787010 | A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SIZE OF LITHIUM PEROXIDE AND A METHOD FOR PREPARING LITHIUM OXIDE WITH CONTROLLED SIZE | SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL | 1736 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialResearch Institute of Industrial Science & Technology has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Karie O Apicella has the most, with 1 of Research Institute of Industrial Science & Technology's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
