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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Soteria Battery Innovation Group Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct art units, which suggests that the company's current filings cover different specialized aspects of chemical or material science.
The prosecution is overseen by a pair of distinct examiners. COLIN W SLIFKA is identified as the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. This indicates that the pending office actions are divided equally between the examiners.
The use of 2 distinct art units for the pending office actions highlights a lack of concentration in a single examination group. Each examiner is responsible for a single pending office action, requiring the company to navigate different examiner preferences across both active cases. This lack of consolidation means that the company must tailor its arguments to the specific tendencies of each individual examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SLIFKA, COLIN W | 1 | 67.2% | +16.2% |
| LIN, GIGI LEE | 1 | 22.7% | -3.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18372224 | JOINING METHODS AND DEVICES MADE USING SAID METHODS | SLIFKA, COLIN W | — |
| 18202276 | WATER-SCAVENGING CELLULOSE-BASED LITHIUM-ION BATTERY SEPARATORS | LIN, GIGI LEE | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18372224 | JOINING METHODS AND DEVICES MADE USING SAID METHODS | SLIFKA, COLIN W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1732 | 1 |
| 1726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18372224 | JOINING METHODS AND DEVICES MADE USING SAID METHODS | SLIFKA, COLIN W | 1732 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18202276 | WATER-SCAVENGING CELLULOSE-BASED LITHIUM-ION BATTERY SEPARATORS | LIN, GIGI LEE | 1726 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
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