Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Research Institute of Industrial Science & Technology manages a portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There are currently 7 pending office actions, which are distributed among 7 distinct examiners. This one-to-one ratio between actions and examiners suggests a broad distribution of work across the patent office, likely covering various sub-specialties within the materials science field.
Prosecution for this portfolio spans 5 distinct art units. This variety indicates that the institute's research and development efforts are diverse enough to trigger reviews from multiple specialized groups. APICELLA, KARIE O is identified as the busiest examiner, though they are currently handling only 1 pending office action. This means that no single examiner holds a majority of the pending workload, as the busiest examiner pending count is also 1.
For a patent practitioner, this distribution across 5 distinct art units and 7 distinct examiners requires a flexible strategy. Each of the 7 pending office actions may face different examination styles and prior art landscapes. The institute's reliance on multiple examiners suggests that prosecution outcomes are not dependent on any single individual's discretion, but rather on the collective standards of the various units involved in Chemistry & Materials.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (43%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 | 53.6% | +22.5% |
| BARCENA, CARLOS | 1 | 80.5% | +12.3% |
| WEST, ROBERT GENE | 1 | 74.8% | +24.4% |
| SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL | 1 | 76.9% | -1.5% |
| PARK, LISA S | 1 | 77.4% | +22.3% |
| LUO, KAN | 1 | 60.0% | +22.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18267986 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING SAME | BARCENA, CARLOS | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 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 | — |
| 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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17771932 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, MANUFACTURING THEREOF, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY USING SAME | PARK, LISA S | 1d overdue |
| 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 | — |
| 18267986 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING SAME | BARCENA, CARLOS | — |
| 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 | — |
| 17280574 | CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING SAME | LUO, KAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1723 | 1 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1729 | 1 |
| 1751 | 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 | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18694155 | METHOD FOR RECOVERING LITHIUM FROM WASTE LITHIUM BATTERY | WANG, NICHOLAS A | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18267986 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING SAME | BARCENA, CARLOS | 1723 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 28, 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 |
| 17771932 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, MANUFACTURING THEREOF, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY USING SAME | PARK, LISA S | 1729 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Apr 26, 2022 |
| 17280574 | CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING SAME | LUO, KAN | 1751 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2021 |
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