Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

VARTA Microbattery GmbH

9 pending office actions • 4 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
1
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (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%)
8
Medium (89%)
1
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (89%)
§112 only1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LEE, JAMES 1 74.5% +19.5%
LAIOS, MARIA J 1 68.5% +18.1%
ROLDAN RAMOS, CHRISTIAN 1 69.3% +16.1%
VO, JIMMY 1 72.8% +22.9%
WYLUDA, KIMBERLY 1 70.2% +13.3%
WANG, PIN JAN 1 75.0% +50.0%
CULLEN, SEAN P 1 68.9% +28.8%
D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P 1 67.7% +41.5%
APPLEGATE, SARAH ARIMINTIA 1 62.5% +42.9%

Interview Candidates (9)

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
17999935 LITHIUM-ION CELL WITH HIGH SPECIFIC ENERGY DENSITY D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P 24d overdue
18005619 ENERGY STORAGE CELL AND PRODUCTION METHOD WYLUDA, KIMBERLY 23d overdue
17928284 LITHIUM-ION CELL INCLUDING CURRENT COLLECTOR IN DIRECT WELDED CONTACT WITH SHEET METAL MEMBER CULLEN, SEAN P 17d overdue
18272376 BATTERY MODULE, MODULAR BATTERY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING MODULAR BATTERY SYSTEM LEE, JAMES 10d overdue
17828099 CELL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF APPLEGATE, SARAH ARIMINTIA 12d
18267013 METAL-AIR CELL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LAIOS, MARIA J 14d
18246198 ENERGY STORAGE CELL ROLDAN RAMOS, CHRISTIAN 28d
18301333 ENERGY STORAGE ELEMENT AND PRODUCTION METHOD VO, JIMMY 29d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1725 4
1723 3
1727 1
1717 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18272376 BATTERY MODULE, MODULAR BATTERY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING MODULAR BATTERY SYSTEM LEE, JAMES 1725 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jul 14, 2023
18267013 METAL-AIR CELL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LAIOS, MARIA J 1727 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 13, 2023
18246198 ENERGY STORAGE CELL ROLDAN RAMOS, CHRISTIAN 1723 §112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending May 25, 2023
18301333 ENERGY STORAGE ELEMENT AND PRODUCTION METHOD VO, JIMMY 1723 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Apr 17, 2023
18005619 ENERGY STORAGE CELL AND PRODUCTION METHOD WYLUDA, KIMBERLY 1725 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2023
18009779 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS, AND ELECTRODE FOR AN ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL WANG, PIN JAN 1717 §103 Final Rejection 39d Pending Dec 12, 2022
17928284 LITHIUM-ION CELL INCLUDING CURRENT COLLECTOR IN DIRECT WELDED CONTACT WITH SHEET METAL MEMBER CULLEN, SEAN P 1725 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Nov 29, 2022
17999935 LITHIUM-ION CELL WITH HIGH SPECIFIC ENERGY DENSITY D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P 1723 §103 Non-Final OA 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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