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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Xerion Advanced Battery Corp. maintains 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This 1 action represents the full extent of the company's current prosecution activity. The focus on Chemistry & Materials suggests a specific technical direction for the applications currently under review by the patent office.
The portfolio's active workload is managed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. This arrangement results in a centralized prosecution process where all pending matters are funneled through a single examiner and a single administrative unit. There is no distribution of the workload across different areas of the patent office for these pending matters.
RIPA, BRYAN D is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the total number of 1 pending office action matches the busiest examiner count, RIPA, BRYAN D is the only examiner currently reviewing the company's applications. All current patent office interactions for this portfolio are concentrated with this specific examiner within the identified art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIPA, BRYAN D | 1 | 53.9% | +37.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18194563 | REDOX MEMBRANES FOR LITHIUM EXTRACTION | RIPA, BRYAN D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18194563 | REDOX MEMBRANES FOR LITHIUM EXTRACTION | RIPA, BRYAN D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18194563 | REDOX MEMBRANES FOR LITHIUM EXTRACTION | RIPA, BRYAN D | 1794 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
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