Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Shanghai Volta Institute Of Digital Battery Energy Storage currently has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 2 matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. However, both examiners are located within the same 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a very specific technical focus for the institute's filings.
The busiest examiner is DAVIS, CYNTHIA L, who handles 1 pending office action. The remaining pending action is assigned to the other distinct examiner. This structure means that while the institute interacts with 2 distinct examiners, the prosecution environment is limited to 1 distinct art unit for all current matters.
Practitioners should observe that the concentration in 1 distinct art unit may lead to consistent prior art citations across the 2 pending office actions. Although DAVIS, CYNTHIA L is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, the workload is small. The strategy should account for the shared art unit context while addressing the individual preferences of the 2 distinct examiners in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (50%) |
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIS, CYNTHIA L | 1 | 71.6% | +29.1% |
| SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER | 1 | 56.7% | +19.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18474308 | METHOD FOR CALCULATING STATE OF CHARGE OF BATTERY | DAVIS, CYNTHIA L | 6d |
| 18370407 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING BATTERY CELL DATA, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18474308 | METHOD FOR CALCULATING STATE OF CHARGE OF BATTERY | DAVIS, CYNTHIA L | 6d |
| 18370407 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING BATTERY CELL DATA, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18474308 | METHOD FOR CALCULATING STATE OF CHARGE OF BATTERY | DAVIS, CYNTHIA L | 2857 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 18370407 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING BATTERY CELL DATA, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER | 2857 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
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