Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Saft

3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

3
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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%)
3
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% 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.

30 h
Manual time on pending OAs
6 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
10 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BLACKWELL-RUDASIL, RYAN KENZIE 1 73.3% +36.4%
GRANNUM, VERITA EUDORA EBUN 1 68.8% +56.7%
WEI, ZHONGQING 1 58.4% +16.4%

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18010620 SURFACE-TREATED ELECTRODE, PROTECTION OF SOLID ELECTROLYTES, AND ELEMENTS, MODULES AND BATTERIES COMPRISING SAID ELECTRODE BLACKWELL-RUDASIL, RYAN KENZIE 5d overdue
17914426 IMPROVED CURRENT COLLECTOR FOR A BATTERY GRANNUM, VERITA EUDORA EBUN 40d
16062977 USE OF ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS CONTAINING A LITHIATED TITANATE OXIDE NEGATIVE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LOW EARTH ORBIT APPLICATIONS WEI, ZHONGQING —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1722 1
1721 1
1727 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18010620 SURFACE-TREATED ELECTRODE, PROTECTION OF SOLID ELECTROLYTES, AND ELEMENTS, MODULES AND BATTERIES COMPRISING SAID ELECTRODE BLACKWELL-RUDASIL, RYAN KENZIE 1722 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2022
17914426 IMPROVED CURRENT COLLECTOR FOR A BATTERY GRANNUM, VERITA EUDORA EBUN 1721 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Sep 26, 2022
16062977 USE OF ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS CONTAINING A LITHIATED TITANATE OXIDE NEGATIVE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LOW EARTH ORBIT APPLICATIONS WEI, ZHONGQING 1727 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 15, 2018

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