Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

U.S. Department of Energy

11 pending office actions • 10 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due later (1)

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%)
10
Medium (91%)
1
Easy (9%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (82%)
§102 only1 (9%)
§112 only1 (9%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
55% of docket
1
Information Tech
9% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
3
Semiconductors
27% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
9% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
RAMASWAMY, ARUN 1 84.4% +12.6%
DRAGICEVICH, ZACHARY T 1 79.2% +5.1%
HOQUE, FARHANA AKHTER 1 86.0% +11.2%
KAKARLA, BHASKAR 1
FORREST, MICHAEL 1 59.2% +13.4%
SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH 1 70.8% +33.3%
PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY 1 38.1% +2.5%
HINSON, RONALD 1 73.7% +14.3%
BULLOCK, IN SUK C 1 50.0% +32.0%
CREPEAU, JONATHAN 1 73.2% +18.1%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18780828 Carbon Electrode Material for Improving the Performance of Supercapacitors and Method of Making Carbon Electrode Material RAMASWAMY, ARUN 2d overdue
18636431 DISTRIBUTED ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERROGATION SYSTEM HOQUE, FARHANA AKHTER 1d overdue

Interview Candidates (7)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17901537 Sorbent-based oxygen separation BULLOCK, IN SUK C 51d overdue
18137768 Perovskite Oxygen Carriers and Methods for Making and Using Perovskite Oxygen Carriers SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH 9d overdue
18780828 Carbon Electrode Material for Improving the Performance of Supercapacitors and Method of Making Carbon Electrode Material RAMASWAMY, ARUN 2d overdue
18636431 DISTRIBUTED ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERROGATION SYSTEM HOQUE, FARHANA AKHTER 1d overdue
17759822 RAPID POLYMERIZED CATECHOL BASED SURFACTANT ASSISTED INFILTRATION OF SOLID OXIDE ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL INFILTRATION USING SPRAYING METHOD CREPEAU, JONATHAN 1d overdue
18097183 HIGH FREQUENCY MEDIUM VOLTAGE TRANSFORMER WITH CENTRAL INSULATING DIVIDER HINSON, RONALD 15d
18225207 SELECTIVE MATERIAL RECOVERY FROM NATURAL BRINES FORREST, MICHAEL 84d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1738 2
2848 1
3679 1
2858 1
2116 1
1735 1
2837 1
1772 1
1725 1
1797 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18780828 Carbon Electrode Material for Improving the Performance of Supercapacitors and Method of Making Carbon Electrode Material RAMASWAMY, ARUN 2848 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jul 23, 2024
18758144 Piping Connection Seal and Leak Detection DRAGICEVICH, ZACHARY T 3679 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2024
18636431 DISTRIBUTED ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERROGATION SYSTEM HOQUE, FARHANA AKHTER 2858 §102 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Apr 16, 2024
18545807 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PEAK-CLIPPING AND LOAD-SHIFTING ENERGY STORAGE DISPATCH CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR EVENT-BASED DEMAND RESPONSE KAKARLA, BHASKAR 2116 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2023
18225207 SELECTIVE MATERIAL RECOVERY FROM NATURAL BRINES FORREST, MICHAEL 1738 §112 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Jul 24, 2023
18137768 Perovskite Oxygen Carriers and Methods for Making and Using Perovskite Oxygen Carriers SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH 1735 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Apr 21, 2023
18137793 Perovskite Oxygen Carriers and Methods for Making and Using Perovskite Oxygen Carriers PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY 1738 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Apr 21, 2023
18097183 HIGH FREQUENCY MEDIUM VOLTAGE TRANSFORMER WITH CENTRAL INSULATING DIVIDER HINSON, RONALD 2837 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jan 13, 2023
17901537 Sorbent-based oxygen separation BULLOCK, IN SUK C 1772 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Sep 01, 2022
17759822 RAPID POLYMERIZED CATECHOL BASED SURFACTANT ASSISTED INFILTRATION OF SOLID OXIDE ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL INFILTRATION USING SPRAYING METHOD CREPEAU, JONATHAN 1725 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Jul 29, 2022
17729511 Metal Oxides Enabled Fiber Optic pH Sensor for High temperature High pH Subsurface Environments JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO 1797 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Apr 26, 2022

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