Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
10 pending office actions • 9 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Saft Groupe S.A. has 10 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 10 distinct examiners and 9 distinct art units, reflecting broad examiner distribution and limited art-unit overlap.
LYNCH, VICTORIA HOM is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. A portfolio-level docket is useful, but each response will likely require file-specific preparation because the matters are spread across examiners.
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 | 3 (30%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (70%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYNCH, VICTORIA HOM | 1 | 86.3% | +9.8% |
| KERNS, KEVIN P | 1 | 78.9% | +21.2% |
| CASERTO, JULIA SHARON | 1 | 71.4% | +28.9% |
| ROLDAN RAMOS, CHRISTIAN | 1 | 69.6% | +15.4% |
| LOVASZ, MYLES ALAN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| KOUSAR, SADIA | 1 | 65.9% | +10.9% |
| CARRICO, ROBERT SCOTT | 1 | 66.0% | +32.5% |
| JACOBSON, SARAH JORDAN | 1 | 51.9% | +76.5% |
| GRANNUM, VERITA EUDORA EBUN | 1 | 61.3% | +45.6% |
| HANSEN, JARED A | 1 | 53.1% | +48.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17914426 | IMPROVED CURRENT COLLECTOR FOR A BATTERY | GRANNUM, VERITA EUDORA EBUN | 40d |
| 18709145 | THERMOPLASTIC VULCANIZATE COMPOSITIONS AS SOLID POLYMER ELECTROLYTES | LYNCH, VICTORIA HOM | — |
| 18700068 | BATTERY MODULE HAVING INTERMEDIATE PARTS, ASSOCIATED BATTERY AND VEHICLE | KERNS, KEVIN P | — |
| 18562098 | ELECTROCHEMICAL ELEMENT FOR A BATTERY, AND CORRESPONDING BATTERY | CASERTO, JULIA SHARON | — |
| 18283982 | MIXTURE OF ACTIVE MATERIALS FOR CATHODE OF A LITHIUM-ION CELL | ROLDAN RAMOS, CHRISTIAN | — |
| 18281407 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE COMPRISING AN ELECTROCHEMICALLY ACTIVE ZINC MATERIAL | LOVASZ, MYLES ALAN | — |
| 18002596 | USE OF LITHIUM SECONDARY ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS CONTAINING A BLEND OF A LITHIUM NICKEL OXIDE AND A LITHIUM MANGANESE IRON PHOSPHATE FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS | CARRICO, ROBERT SCOTT | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17914426 | IMPROVED CURRENT COLLECTOR FOR A BATTERY | GRANNUM, VERITA EUDORA EBUN | 40d |
| 18700068 | BATTERY MODULE HAVING INTERMEDIATE PARTS, ASSOCIATED BATTERY AND VEHICLE | KERNS, KEVIN P | — |
| 18562098 | ELECTROCHEMICAL ELEMENT FOR A BATTERY, AND CORRESPONDING BATTERY | CASERTO, JULIA SHARON | — |
| 18283982 | MIXTURE OF ACTIVE MATERIALS FOR CATHODE OF A LITHIUM-ION CELL | ROLDAN RAMOS, CHRISTIAN | — |
| 18038486 | DEVICE FOR INERTING A BATTERY AND ASSOCIATED POWER SUPPLY, INERTING METHOD AND SYSTEM | KOUSAR, SADIA | — |
| 18002596 | USE OF LITHIUM SECONDARY ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS CONTAINING A BLEND OF A LITHIUM NICKEL OXIDE AND A LITHIUM MANGANESE IRON PHOSPHATE FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS | CARRICO, ROBERT SCOTT | — |
| 18008386 | CONNECTION ELEMENT FOR CONNECTING TWO ACCUMULATORS | JACOBSON, SARAH JORDAN | — |
| 17771287 | GELLED ELECTROLYTE FOR LITHIUM-ION ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL | HANSEN, JARED A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1723 | 2 |
| 1724 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18709145 | THERMOPLASTIC VULCANIZATE COMPOSITIONS AS SOLID POLYMER ELECTROLYTES | LYNCH, VICTORIA HOM | 1724 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18700068 | BATTERY MODULE HAVING INTERMEDIATE PARTS, ASSOCIATED BATTERY AND VEHICLE | KERNS, KEVIN P | 1735 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18562098 | ELECTROCHEMICAL ELEMENT FOR A BATTERY, AND CORRESPONDING BATTERY | CASERTO, JULIA SHARON | 1789 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18283982 | MIXTURE OF ACTIVE MATERIALS FOR CATHODE OF A LITHIUM-ION CELL | ROLDAN RAMOS, CHRISTIAN | 1723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18281407 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE COMPRISING AN ELECTROCHEMICALLY ACTIVE ZINC MATERIAL | LOVASZ, MYLES ALAN | 1788 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
| 18038486 | DEVICE FOR INERTING A BATTERY AND ASSOCIATED POWER SUPPLY, INERTING METHOD AND SYSTEM | KOUSAR, SADIA | 2859 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18002596 | USE OF LITHIUM SECONDARY ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS CONTAINING A BLEND OF A LITHIUM NICKEL OXIDE AND A LITHIUM MANGANESE IRON PHOSPHATE FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS | CARRICO, ROBERT SCOTT | 1727 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2022 |
| 18008386 | CONNECTION ELEMENT FOR CONNECTING TWO ACCUMULATORS | JACOBSON, SARAH JORDAN | 1785 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2022 |
| 17914426 | IMPROVED CURRENT COLLECTOR FOR A BATTERY | GRANNUM, VERITA EUDORA EBUN | 1721 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Sep 26, 2022 |
| 17771287 | GELLED ELECTROLYTE FOR LITHIUM-ION ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL | HANSEN, JARED A | 1723 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSaft Groupe S.A. has 10 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 10 examiners.
Victoria Hom Lynch has the most, with 1 of Saft Groupe S.A.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
