Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shanghai Energy New Materials Technology Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across multiple examiners and multiple art units. This even distribution suggests that the company's chemistry-related innovations are being reviewed by different technical groups within the patent office.
Jonathan Crepeau is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. The workload is distributed such that each of the 2 distinct examiners is responsible for one of the active matters. This structure prevents a single examiner from having total control over the company's active portfolio.
The involvement of multiple art units means that the company must manage different sets of technical expectations and divisional policies. While this adds some complexity to the prosecution strategy, it also provides a level of diversification. The progress of the active actions will depend on how well the company can address the specific requirements of each examiner and the assigned units.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CREPEAU, JONATHAN | 1 | 73.1% | +18.0% |
| MARTIN, MATTHEW T | 1 | 44.4% | +38.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19001792 | BATTERY DIAPHRAGM AND LITHIUM BATTERY PREPARED THEREFROM | CREPEAU, JONATHAN | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18034652 | POLYOLEFIN MICROPOROUS MEMBRANE AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEM THEREOF, AND BATTERY SEPARATOR AND ELECTROCHEMICAL APPARATUS | MARTIN, MATTHEW T | 29d |
| 19001792 | BATTERY DIAPHRAGM AND LITHIUM BATTERY PREPARED THEREFROM | CREPEAU, JONATHAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1725 | 1 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19001792 | BATTERY DIAPHRAGM AND LITHIUM BATTERY PREPARED THEREFROM | CREPEAU, JONATHAN | 1725 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18034652 | POLYOLEFIN MICROPOROUS MEMBRANE AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEM THEREOF, AND BATTERY SEPARATOR AND ELECTROCHEMICAL APPARATUS | MARTIN, MATTHEW T | 1728 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
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