Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
14 pending office actions • 7 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Terawatt Technology K K is managing a significant workload of 15 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This portfolio is highly distributed, involving 15 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units. Such a broad distribution suggests that the company's innovations span a wide variety of specialized chemical and material sub-sectors.
The busiest examiner, PARK, LISA S, is responsible for only 1 pending office action. This indicates that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the portfolio, as every pending case is handled by a different official. With 7 distinct art units involved, the company must navigate a complex array of examination standards and technical expertise. This decentralized structure requires a versatile prosecution strategy that can adapt to many different examiner preferences simultaneously. The high number of 15 distinct examiners relative to the 15 pending office actions highlights a total lack of examiner concentration. Practitioners must be prepared for highly individualized prosecution paths for every application in the current workload.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 9 (64%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARK, LISA S | 1 | 77.4% | +22.3% |
| BROWN, MADISON ELIZABETH | 1 | — | — |
| WALLS-MURRAY, JESSIE LOGAN | 1 | 74.5% | +25.8% |
| MAYES, MELVIN C | 1 | 34.1% | +5.2% |
| WANG, EUGENIA | 1 | 54.4% | +34.8% |
| RUSERE, LINAH NATSAI | 1 | — | — |
| LYNCH, VICTORIA HOM | 1 | 86.2% | +10.0% |
| CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | 1 | 50.3% | +29.0% |
| SUN, MICHAEL Y | 1 | 57.1% | +26.5% |
| WILLIAMS, ARUN C | 1 | 82.0% | +16.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18337696 | BATTERY SYSTEM, CHARGING DEVICE, AND CHARGING METHOD | WILLIAMS, ARUN C | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18616446 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | PARK, LISA S | — |
| 18596152 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | WALLS-MURRAY, JESSIE LOGAN | — |
| 18543156 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | MAYES, MELVIN C | — |
| 18522833 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | WANG, EUGENIA | — |
| 18480013 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | LYNCH, VICTORIA HOM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18616446 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | PARK, LISA S | — |
| 18596152 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | WALLS-MURRAY, JESSIE LOGAN | — |
| 18522833 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | WANG, EUGENIA | — |
| 18480013 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | LYNCH, VICTORIA HOM | — |
| 18358182 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | — |
| 18342205 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | SUN, MICHAEL Y | — |
| 18337696 | BATTERY SYSTEM, CHARGING DEVICE, AND CHARGING METHOD | WILLIAMS, ARUN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1729 | 2 |
| 1724 | 1 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| 1722 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18616446 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | PARK, LISA S | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18601657 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | BROWN, MADISON ELIZABETH | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18596152 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | WALLS-MURRAY, JESSIE LOGAN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18543156 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | MAYES, MELVIN C | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18522833 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | WANG, EUGENIA | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18507206 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, METHOD FOR USING SAME, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | RUSERE, LINAH NATSAI | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18480013 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | LYNCH, VICTORIA HOM | 1724 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2023 |
| 18358182 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | 1729 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18342205 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | SUN, MICHAEL Y | 1728 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18337696 | BATTERY SYSTEM, CHARGING DEVICE, AND CHARGING METHOD | WILLIAMS, ARUN C | 2859 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 18196291 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | BILLIET, AMANDA JUNE | 1729 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
| 18136125 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | MARROQUIN, DOUGLAS C | 1723 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2023 |
| 18111339 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | APPLEGATE, SARAH ARIMINTIA | 1725 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Feb 17, 2023 |
| 18111337 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY | EOFF, ANCA | 1722 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2023 |
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