Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Volta Energy Solutions S A R L has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MARROQUIN, DOUGLAS C, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending case. Prosecution is limited to 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very focused and centralized approach to the company's current active patent application, with all work handled by a single examiner.
The concentration of the active workload under one distinct examiner and one distinct art unit suggests that Volta Energy Solutions S A R L is currently pursuing a very specific technical goal. This structure allows for a highly consistent prosecution strategy, as there are no competing examiner viewpoints to reconcile. However, it also places a premium on the initial interactions with MARROQUIN, DOUGLAS C. Practitioners should carefully analyze the examiner's past behavior in this technology area to anticipate potential objections. Success in this 1 pending office action will likely depend on a thorough understanding of the specific administrative standards prevalent within this single art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARROQUIN, DOUGLAS C | 1 | 44.0% | +78.6% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18142930 | ELECTROLYTIC COPPER FOIL AND SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING THE SAME | MARROQUIN, DOUGLAS C | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18142930 | ELECTROLYTIC COPPER FOIL AND SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING THE SAME | MARROQUIN, DOUGLAS C | 1723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
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