Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ses Holdings Pte. Ltd. currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 4 actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting a focused range of chemical inventions. The prosecution involves 4 distinct examiners, which means that every pending case is being handled by a different individual.
BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This count of 1 is the highest number of actions assigned to any single examiner in the group. With 4 distinct examiners for 4 pending office actions, the workload is perfectly distributed, as no examiner is managing more than one case.
The 2 distinct art units involved mean that the 4 pending office actions are subject to the standards of two different examination groups. Practitioners should note that they will be dealing with 4 different examiners, which may lead to a variety of prosecution experiences. Since the busiest examiner, BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN, only has 1 pending office action, there is no single primary contact for the company's active Chemistry & Materials portfolio. This distribution of 4 pending office actions across 4 distinct examiners ensures a variety of perspectives on the company's technology.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 1 | 81.5% | +14.9% |
| CHAU, LINDA N | 1 | 44.6% | +16.0% |
| CUTLIFF, YATE KAI RENE | 1 | 79.8% | +24.3% |
| RHEE, JANE J | 1 | 86.0% | +12.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18955564 | Processes For Removing Reactive Solvents And Synthesis Byproducts From Crude Lithium Salts | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18265948 | Electrolytes Having Nonfluorinated Hybrid-Ether Cosolvent Systems, Methods of Making Such Electrolytes, and Electrochemical Devices Utilizing Such Electrolytes | RHEE, JANE J | 22d |
| 18727430 | Electrolytes Containing Acetamide-Based Solvent, And Electrochemical Devices Incorporating Such Electrolytes | CHAU, LINDA N | — |
| 18535114 | Synthesis of N,N-Dialkyl, -Dialkenyl, -Dialkynyl, and Related Cyclics, Sulfamoyl Fluoride Compounds Using Hydrogen Fluoride | CUTLIFF, YATE KAI RENE | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18265948 | Electrolytes Having Nonfluorinated Hybrid-Ether Cosolvent Systems, Methods of Making Such Electrolytes, and Electrochemical Devices Utilizing Such Electrolytes | RHEE, JANE J | 22d |
| 18955564 | Processes For Removing Reactive Solvents And Synthesis Byproducts From Crude Lithium Salts | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — |
| 18727430 | Electrolytes Containing Acetamide-Based Solvent, And Electrochemical Devices Incorporating Such Electrolytes | CHAU, LINDA N | — |
| 18535114 | Synthesis of N,N-Dialkyl, -Dialkenyl, -Dialkynyl, and Related Cyclics, Sulfamoyl Fluoride Compounds Using Hydrogen Fluoride | CUTLIFF, YATE KAI RENE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18955564 | Processes For Removing Reactive Solvents And Synthesis Byproducts From Crude Lithium Salts | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 1736 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18727430 | Electrolytes Containing Acetamide-Based Solvent, And Electrochemical Devices Incorporating Such Electrolytes | CHAU, LINDA N | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18535114 | Synthesis of N,N-Dialkyl, -Dialkenyl, -Dialkynyl, and Related Cyclics, Sulfamoyl Fluoride Compounds Using Hydrogen Fluoride | CUTLIFF, YATE KAI RENE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
| 18265948 | Electrolytes Having Nonfluorinated Hybrid-Ether Cosolvent Systems, Methods of Making Such Electrolytes, and Electrochemical Devices Utilizing Such Electrolytes | RHEE, JANE J | 1724 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
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