Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sion Power Corporation has 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, which means every pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. The prosecution is spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating a relatively broad technical scope within the company's primary technology area.
DOUYETTE, KENNETH J is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is responsible for one of the 4 pending office actions currently active. Each of the other 3 pending office actions is managed by one of the remaining 3 distinct examiners.
Practitioners must navigate 4 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units, requiring a highly individualized approach for each of the 4 pending office actions. The lack of examiner concentration means that no single individual's preferences dominate the portfolio. Success in the Chemistry & Materials area will depend on meeting the specific requirements of all 4 distinct examiners involved while accounting for the standards of the 3 distinct art units.
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 | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOUYETTE, KENNETH J | 1 | 81.8% | +14.4% |
| KASS-MULLET, BENJAMIN ELI | 1 | 70.4% | +8.3% |
| OTERO, KENNETH MAX | 1 | 52.4% | +43.3% |
| WYROUGH, PAUL CHRISTIAN ST | 1 | 58.1% | +34.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18572297 | SOLID-STATE ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL COMPONENTS AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DOUYETTE, KENNETH J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17942469 | HIGH VOLTAGE LITHIUM-CONTAINING ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS AND RELATED METHODS | OTERO, KENNETH MAX | 23d |
| 18572297 | SOLID-STATE ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL COMPONENTS AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DOUYETTE, KENNETH J | — |
| 17942489 | HIGH VOLTAGE LITHIUM-CONTAINING ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS INCLUDING MAGNESIUM-COMPRISING PROTECTIVE LAYERS AND RELATED METHODS | WYROUGH, PAUL CHRISTIAN ST | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1752 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18572297 | SOLID-STATE ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL COMPONENTS AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DOUYETTE, KENNETH J | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18270720 | MIXTURES AND/OR LAYERS COMPRISING CERAMIC PARTICLES AND A POLYMERIC SURFACTANT, AND RELATED ARTICLES AND METHODS | KASS-MULLET, BENJAMIN ELI | 1752 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 17942469 | HIGH VOLTAGE LITHIUM-CONTAINING ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS AND RELATED METHODS | OTERO, KENNETH MAX | 1725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Sep 12, 2022 |
| 17942489 | HIGH VOLTAGE LITHIUM-CONTAINING ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS INCLUDING MAGNESIUM-COMPRISING PROTECTIVE LAYERS AND RELATED METHODS | WYROUGH, PAUL CHRISTIAN ST | 1723 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2022 |
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