Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
15 pending office actions • 5 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
VARTA Microbattery GmbH has 15 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The active matters are distributed among 13 distinct examiners across 5 distinct art units, indicating a broad and operationally dispersed prosecution docket. The difference between the action volume and examiner count shows that some examiner assignments contain more than one active matter.
FEHR, JULIA MARIE is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That concentration is limited, so counsel should combine centralized docket control with examiner-specific review, particularly for recurring battery or materials claim issues within the five art-unit assignments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 1 (7%) |
| §103 only | 6 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (53%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FEHR, JULIA MARIE | 2 | 51.6% | -2.0% |
| CULLEN, SEAN P | 2 | 69.2% | +28.0% |
| CREPEAU, JONATHAN | 1 | 73.2% | +17.4% |
| LEE, JAMES | 1 | 74.4% | +19.4% |
| RAYMOND, BRITTANY L | 1 | 77.3% | +10.6% |
| CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C | 1 | 59.7% | +18.5% |
| LIU, SHUYI S | 1 | 73.4% | +25.8% |
| KEKIA, OMAR M | 1 | 67.5% | +22.2% |
| BARCENA, CARLOS | 1 | 80.6% | +12.3% |
| LAIOS, MARIA J | 1 | 69.2% | +18.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17999935 | LITHIUM-ION CELL WITH HIGH SPECIFIC ENERGY DENSITY | D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P | 24d overdue |
| 17928284 | LITHIUM-ION CELL INCLUDING CURRENT COLLECTOR IN DIRECT WELDED CONTACT WITH SHEET METAL MEMBER | CULLEN, SEAN P | 17d overdue |
| 18766851 | CLAMP ASSEMBLY WITH A CELL HOLDER AND A PLURALITY OF ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE ELEMENTS | FEHR, JULIA MARIE | — |
| 18712255 | ENERGY STORAGE CELL, ARRAY OF ENERGY STORAGE CELLS, AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS | CREPEAU, JONATHAN | — |
| 18644155 | ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE ELEMENT | LEE, JAMES | — |
| 18702806 | LITHIUM-ION CELL | RAYMOND, BRITTANY L | — |
| 18570137 | ENERGY STORAGE ELEMENT, ASSEMBLY OF ENERGY STORAGE ELEMENTS AND PRODUCTION PROCESS | CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C | — |
| 18287304 | METHOD AND SET FOR PRODUCING A ZINC-MANGANESE DIOXIDE CELL, AND CELL PRODUCED USING SAID METHOD | LIU, SHUYI 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18002057 | LITHIUM-ION CELL HAVING SEPARATOR WITH INORGANIC MATERIAL AND WELDED CURRENT COLLECTOR CONNECTION | CULLEN, SEAN P | 23d overdue |
| 17928284 | LITHIUM-ION CELL INCLUDING CURRENT COLLECTOR IN DIRECT WELDED CONTACT WITH SHEET METAL MEMBER | CULLEN, SEAN P | 17d overdue |
| 18267013 | METAL-AIR CELL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING | LAIOS, MARIA J | 14d |
| 18712255 | ENERGY STORAGE CELL, ARRAY OF ENERGY STORAGE CELLS, AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS | CREPEAU, JONATHAN | — |
| 18644155 | ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE ELEMENT | LEE, JAMES | — |
| 18702806 | LITHIUM-ION CELL | RAYMOND, BRITTANY L | — |
| 18570137 | ENERGY STORAGE ELEMENT, ASSEMBLY OF ENERGY STORAGE ELEMENTS AND PRODUCTION PROCESS | CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C | — |
| 18287304 | METHOD AND SET FOR PRODUCING A ZINC-MANGANESE DIOXIDE CELL, AND CELL PRODUCED USING SAID METHOD | LIU, SHUYI S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1725 | 8 |
| 1722 | 2 |
| 1723 | 2 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18766851 | CLAMP ASSEMBLY WITH A CELL HOLDER AND A PLURALITY OF ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE ELEMENTS | FEHR, JULIA MARIE | 1725 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18712255 | ENERGY STORAGE CELL, ARRAY OF ENERGY STORAGE CELLS, AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS | CREPEAU, JONATHAN | 1725 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18644155 | ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE ELEMENT | LEE, JAMES | 1725 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18702806 | LITHIUM-ION CELL | RAYMOND, BRITTANY L | 1722 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18570137 | ENERGY STORAGE ELEMENT, ASSEMBLY OF ENERGY STORAGE ELEMENTS AND PRODUCTION PROCESS | CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18287304 | METHOD AND SET FOR PRODUCING A ZINC-MANGANESE DIOXIDE CELL, AND CELL PRODUCED USING SAID METHOD | LIU, SHUYI S | 1774 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18463379 | BUTTON CELL HAVING WINDING ELECTRODE AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF | KEKIA, OMAR M | 1722 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18279335 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE ELEMENT | BARCENA, CARLOS | 1723 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2023 |
| 18267013 | METAL-AIR CELL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING | LAIOS, MARIA J | 1727 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 18038712 | ENERGY STORAGE ELEMENT HAVING A PRISMATIC HOUSING | FEHR, JULIA MARIE | 1725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18005619 | ENERGY STORAGE CELL AND PRODUCTION METHOD | WYLUDA, KIMBERLY | 1725 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Jan 16, 2023 |
| 18002057 | LITHIUM-ION CELL HAVING SEPARATOR WITH INORGANIC MATERIAL AND WELDED CURRENT COLLECTOR CONNECTION | CULLEN, SEAN P | 1725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Dec 16, 2022 |
| 17928284 | LITHIUM-ION CELL INCLUDING CURRENT COLLECTOR IN DIRECT WELDED CONTACT WITH SHEET METAL MEMBER | CULLEN, SEAN P | 1725 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Nov 29, 2022 |
| 17999935 | LITHIUM-ION CELL WITH HIGH SPECIFIC ENERGY DENSITY | D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P | 1723 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Nov 28, 2022 |
| 17828099 | CELL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF | APPLEGATE, SARAH ARIMINTIA | 1725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | May 31, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialVARTA Microbattery GmbH has 15 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 13 examiners.
Julia Marie Fehr has the most, with 2 of VARTA Microbattery GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
