Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
9 pending office actions • 7 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sslm Co. Ltd. has 9 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 9 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units, indicating that prosecution is spread across examiners and technical groupings rather than concentrated in one examination channel.
SHAT, ATEF ARAFAT is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Because the busiest examiner accounts for only 1 matter, counsel may need a portfolio-level tracking process that preserves matter-specific response planning across the examiner and art-unit assignments.
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 | 8 (89%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAT, ATEF ARAFAT | 1 | — | — |
| FRANCIS, ADAM JOSEPH | 1 | 73.6% | +24.8% |
| ROLDAN RAMOS, CHRISTIAN | 1 | 69.6% | +15.4% |
| WANG, PIN JAN | 1 | 65.4% | +44.0% |
| MCNULTY, SEAMUS PATRICK | 1 | 44.2% | +34.5% |
| KOROVINA, ANNA | 1 | 29.1% | +22.0% |
| WALKE, AMANDA C | 1 | 88.5% | +8.6% |
| HANSEN, JARED A | 1 | 53.1% | +48.0% |
| NEWMAN, DREW C | 1 | 41.8% | +29.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18203546 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY SEPARATOR | WALKE, AMANDA C | 83d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18622850 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY SEPARATOR, NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY MEMBER, AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTER | SHAT, ATEF ARAFAT | — |
| 18385986 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY FUNCTIONAL LAYER | KOROVINA, ANNA | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18075772 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY POROUS LAYER | NEWMAN, DREW C | 35d |
| 18385954 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY FUNCTIONAL LAYER | FRANCIS, ADAM JOSEPH | — |
| 18385961 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY FUNCTIONAL LAYER | ROLDAN RAMOS, CHRISTIAN | — |
| 18385963 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY LAMINATED SEPARATOR | WANG, PIN JAN | — |
| 18499301 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY LAMINATED SEPARATOR | MCNULTY, SEAMUS PATRICK | — |
| 18385986 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY FUNCTIONAL LAYER | KOROVINA, ANNA | — |
| 18324224 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY LAMINATED SEPARATOR | HANSEN, JARED A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1723 | 2 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 1752 | 1 |
| 1722 | 1 |
| 1751 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18622850 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY SEPARATOR, NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY MEMBER, AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTER | SHAT, ATEF ARAFAT | 1712 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18385954 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY FUNCTIONAL LAYER | FRANCIS, ADAM JOSEPH | 1728 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18385961 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY FUNCTIONAL LAYER | ROLDAN RAMOS, CHRISTIAN | 1723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18385963 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY LAMINATED SEPARATOR | WANG, PIN JAN | 1717 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18499301 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY LAMINATED SEPARATOR | MCNULTY, SEAMUS PATRICK | 1752 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18385986 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY FUNCTIONAL LAYER | KOROVINA, ANNA | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18203546 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY SEPARATOR | WALKE, AMANDA C | 1722 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18324224 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY LAMINATED SEPARATOR | HANSEN, JARED A | 1723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 18075772 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY POROUS LAYER | NEWMAN, DREW C | 1751 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Dec 06, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSslm Co. Ltd. has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 9 examiners.
Atef Arafat Shat has the most, with 1 of Sslm Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.