Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Sila Nanotechnologies Inc.

7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
1
Due this week
0
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (1)

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%)
6
Medium (86%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (14%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (71%)
§102 only1 (14%)
No statute on record1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

7
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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FRASER, STEWART A 1 86.0% +14.2%
WALLS, CYNTHIA KYUNG SOO 1 71.8% -0.6%
AMPONSAH, OSEI K 1 72.0% +33.6%
PATEL, SUHANI JITENDRA 1 72.7% +13.3%
BARROW, AMANDA J 1 54.7% +19.0%
WANG, EUGENIA 1 54.1% +35.1%
GATEWOOD, DANIEL S 1 77.8% +18.8%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19271066 SCAFFOLDING MATRIX WITH INTERNAL NANOPARTICLES FRASER, STEWART A 35d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17813803 SEPARATOR WITH A CERAMIC-COMPRISING SEPARATOR LAYER WANG, EUGENIA 60d overdue
18159237 ELECTROLYTES FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERY CELLS WITH NITRILE ADDITIVES PATEL, SUHANI JITENDRA 53d overdue
17935789 HIGH-CAPACITY BATTERY ELECTRODES WITH IMPROVED BINDERS, CONSTRUCTION, AND PERFORMANCE BARROW, AMANDA J 23d overdue
17222017 LITHIUM-ION BATTERY WITH ANODE COMPRISING BLEND OF INTERCALATION-TYPE ANODE MATERIAL AND CONVERSION-TYPE ANODE MATERIAL GATEWOOD, DANIEL S 5d
18334129 RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES WITH ALKALI METAL ION CATHODES, ALUMINUM METAL-BASED ANODES AND DISPLACEMENT ELECTROLYTE AMPONSAH, OSEI K 33d
19271066 SCAFFOLDING MATRIX WITH INTERNAL NANOPARTICLES FRASER, STEWART A 35d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1729 2
1724 1
1751 1
1752 1
1783 1
1759 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19271066 SCAFFOLDING MATRIX WITH INTERNAL NANOPARTICLES FRASER, STEWART A 1724 §102 Final Rejection 35d Pending Jul 16, 2025
18535016 CORE-SHELL COMPOSITES FOR ELECTRODES IN METAL-ION BATTERIES WALLS, CYNTHIA KYUNG SOO 1751 §103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Dec 11, 2023
18334129 RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES WITH ALKALI METAL ION CATHODES, ALUMINUM METAL-BASED ANODES AND DISPLACEMENT ELECTROLYTE AMPONSAH, OSEI K 1752 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jun 13, 2023
18159237 ELECTROLYTES FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERY CELLS WITH NITRILE ADDITIVES PATEL, SUHANI JITENDRA 1783 §103 Final Rejection 53d overdue Pending Jan 25, 2023
17935789 HIGH-CAPACITY BATTERY ELECTRODES WITH IMPROVED BINDERS, CONSTRUCTION, AND PERFORMANCE BARROW, AMANDA J 1729 Other Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2022
17813803 SEPARATOR WITH A CERAMIC-COMPRISING SEPARATOR LAYER WANG, EUGENIA 1759 §103 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Jul 20, 2022
17222017 LITHIUM-ION BATTERY WITH ANODE COMPRISING BLEND OF INTERCALATION-TYPE ANODE MATERIAL AND CONVERSION-TYPE ANODE MATERIAL GATEWOOD, DANIEL S 1729 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Apr 05, 2021

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