Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Furukawa Battery Co., Ltd. manages a patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area, currently featuring 7 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 7 distinct examiners, which indicates that each pending matter is being handled by a different individual. This distribution provides the company with a broad range of examiner perspectives across its current filings, reducing the impact of an examiner's tendencies on the overall portfolio.
The prosecution activity spans 5 distinct art units, showing that the company's technical reach within chemistry and materials is diverse enough to trigger review by multiple specialized groups. The busiest examiner, PARK, HYUN D, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the workload is perfectly balanced across the examiners. This lack of concentration under an examiner means the company's overall prosecution success is not overly dependent on the tendencies of an official, but rather on the collective outcomes of several independent reviews within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (33%) |
| §103 only | 3 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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, HYUN D | 1 | 41.7% | +22.8% |
| CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S | 1 | 64.6% | +30.6% |
| LE, SON T | 1 | 82.6% | +14.1% |
| AMPONSAH, OSEI K | 1 | 72.4% | +33.1% |
| HARRIS, MARY GRACE | 1 | 69.5% | +29.0% |
| KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 1 | 49.7% | +15.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18738603 | Lead-Acid Battery System And Lead-Acid Battery Life Estimation Method | LE, SON T | 28d |
| 18785744 | Lead-Acid Battery System And Lead-Acid Battery Life Estimation Method | PARK, HYUN D | — |
| 18784177 | Lead-Acid Battery System And Lead-Acid Battery Life Estimation Method | CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18323089 | Bipolar Storage Battery | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 5d |
| 18325319 | Lead Alloy, Lead Storage Battery Electrode, Lead Storage Battery, and Power Storage System | HARRIS, MARY GRACE | 21d |
| 18738603 | Lead-Acid Battery System And Lead-Acid Battery Life Estimation Method | LE, SON T | 28d |
| 18785744 | Lead-Acid Battery System And Lead-Acid Battery Life Estimation Method | PARK, HYUN D | — |
| 18784177 | Lead-Acid Battery System And Lead-Acid Battery Life Estimation Method | CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S | — |
| 18489483 | Lead Foil And Bipolar Lead Acid Storage Battery | AMPONSAH, OSEI K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| 1752 | 1 |
| 1729 | 1 |
| 1722 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18785744 | Lead-Acid Battery System And Lead-Acid Battery Life Estimation Method | PARK, HYUN D | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18784177 | Lead-Acid Battery System And Lead-Acid Battery Life Estimation Method | CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18738603 | Lead-Acid Battery System And Lead-Acid Battery Life Estimation Method | LE, SON T | 2858 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18489483 | Lead Foil And Bipolar Lead Acid Storage Battery | AMPONSAH, OSEI K | 1752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18325319 | Lead Alloy, Lead Storage Battery Electrode, Lead Storage Battery, and Power Storage System | HARRIS, MARY GRACE | 1729 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18323089 | Bipolar Storage Battery | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 1722 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
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