Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sicona Battery Technologies Pty Ltd. operates within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 3 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and are being reviewed across 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates a diverse prosecution landscape where each application is being evaluated by a different technical division within the patent office.
TRI V NGUYEN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. The presence of 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's 3 pending office actions involve varied chemical or material innovations that require specialized expertise. This structure means the company must manage multiple separate prosecution tracks simultaneously, as no two applications are currently being handled by the same examiner or within the same art unit. Such a broad footprint across 3 distinct art units may require a more complex coordination of legal arguments to ensure consistency across the portfolio.
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.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, TRI V | 1 | 67.6% | +57.2% |
| RUMP, RICHARD M | 1 | 74.6% | +20.1% |
| ELLIOTT, QUINTIN DALE | 1 | 33.3% | +50.0% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18723782 | EDGE FUNCTIONALISED GRAPHENE THERMAL NANOFLUIDS | NGUYEN, TRI V | 9d overdue |
| 17784447 | ANODE FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERY AND METHOD OF FABRICATING SAME | ELLIOTT, QUINTIN DALE | 5d overdue |
| 18250044 | SILICON CARBON COMPOSITE MATERIALS AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME | RUMP, RICHARD M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1764 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18723782 | EDGE FUNCTIONALISED GRAPHENE THERMAL NANOFLUIDS | NGUYEN, TRI V | 1764 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18250044 | SILICON CARBON COMPOSITE MATERIALS AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME | RUMP, RICHARD M | 1759 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
| 17784447 | ANODE FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERY AND METHOD OF FABRICATING SAME | ELLIOTT, QUINTIN DALE | 1724 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Jun 10, 2022 |
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