Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The Furukawa Battery Co., Ltd.

13 pending office actions • 9 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
13
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only12 (92%)
§102 only1 (8%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

12
Life Sciences
92% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
8% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LE, SON T 1 82.3% +14.4%
MERKLING, MATTHEW J 1 67.9% +13.0%
ZENG, LINGWEN R 1 76.5% +20.6%
LYNCH, VICTORIA HOM 1 86.4% +9.4%
GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE 1 65.5% +33.1%
HAILEY, PATRICIA L 1 88.2% +10.0%
HARRIS, MARY GRACE 1 68.9% +32.0%
WILLS, MONIQUE M 1 85.7% -31.4%
KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K 1 55.4% +15.6%
FREEMAN, EMILY ELIZABETH 1 73.2% +12.1%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18325329 Lead Alloy, Lead Storage Battery Electrode, Lead Storage Battery, and Power Storage System HAILEY, PATRICIA L 73d overdue
18325304 Bipolar Battery WILLS, MONIQUE M 60d overdue
18331452 Bipolar Storage Battery LYNCH, VICTORIA HOM 42d overdue
18738603 Lead-Acid Battery System And Lead-Acid Battery Life Estimation Method LE, SON T 28d

Interview Candidates (8)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18190690 Bipolar Lead-Acid Battery FREEMAN, EMILY ELIZABETH 103d overdue
18325329 Lead Alloy, Lead Storage Battery Electrode, Lead Storage Battery, and Power Storage System HAILEY, PATRICIA L 73d overdue
18332486 Bipolar Storage Battery ZENG, LINGWEN R 50d overdue
18330668 Bipolar Electrode and Bipolar Storage Battery GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE 26d overdue
18362893 Bipolar Storage Battery MERKLING, MATTHEW J 15d overdue
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

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1724 3
1723 2
1729 2
2858 1
1725 1
1721 1
1732 1
1722 1
1727 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18738603 Lead-Acid Battery System And Lead-Acid Battery Life Estimation Method LE, SON T 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jun 10, 2024
18362893 Bipolar Storage Battery MERKLING, MATTHEW J 1725 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2023
18332486 Bipolar Storage Battery ZENG, LINGWEN R 1723 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Jun 09, 2023
18331452 Bipolar Storage Battery LYNCH, VICTORIA HOM 1724 §102 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Jun 08, 2023
18330668 Bipolar Electrode and Bipolar Storage Battery GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE 1721 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Jun 07, 2023
18325329 Lead Alloy, Lead Storage Battery Electrode, Lead Storage Battery, and Power Storage System HAILEY, PATRICIA L 1732 §103 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending May 30, 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
18325304 Bipolar Battery WILLS, MONIQUE M 1723 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending May 30, 2023
18323089 Bipolar Storage Battery KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K 1722 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending May 24, 2023
18190690 Bipolar Lead-Acid Battery FREEMAN, EMILY ELIZABETH 1724 §103 Non-Final OA 103d overdue Pending Mar 27, 2023
18190671 Bipolar Storage Battery LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER 1724 §103 Non-Final OA 124d overdue Pending Mar 27, 2023
18018009 Liquid Lead Storage Battery PARK, LISA S 1729 §103 Non-Final OA 147d overdue Pending Jan 25, 2023
17860702 POSITIVE ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY AND LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY LA RAIA III, LAWRENCE 1727 §103 Non-Final OA 67d overdue Pending Jul 08, 2022

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