Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Xiamen Ampack Technology Limited has 8 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The docket spans 8 examiners and 7 art units, showing broad distribution across examination assignments with limited overlap at the art-unit level.
ZAKARIA, AKM is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. No examiner concentration is reflected in the data, so prosecution oversight should emphasize separate response deadlines, examiner positions, and art-unit records.
The near one-to-one relationship between actions and examiners means that portfolio-wide consistency will depend more on internal claim strategy than on repeated interactions with a single examiner. The 7-art-unit spread also favors an issue matrix that distinguishes art-unit patterns from matter-specific objections.
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 | 3 (38%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZAKARIA, AKM | 1 | 82.6% | +16.2% |
| TORRES DIAZ, ISAAC GREGORIO | 1 | — | — |
| MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 1 | 23.7% | +20.0% |
| BERNATZ, KEVIN M | 1 | 87.8% | +12.3% |
| OTT, PATRICK S | 1 | 68.0% | +23.7% |
| KO, CHAE M | 1 | 89.2% | +4.8% |
| MARTIN, ANGELA J | 1 | 67.3% | -31.4% |
| SUN, MICHAEL Y | 1 | 57.4% | +26.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18895745 | DC ARC SIGNAL GENERATION CIRCUIT, DC ARC DETECTION DEVICE AND ELECTRICAL DEVICE | ZAKARIA, AKM | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18613315 | BATTERY PACK, ELECTROCHEMICAL APPARATUS AND ELECTRICAL DEVICE | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | — |
| 18613952 | BATTERY MODULE AND ELECTRIC DEVICE | BERNATZ, KEVIN M | — |
| 18609213 | ELECTROCHEMICAL APPARATUS AND ELECTRICAL DEVICE | OTT, PATRICK S | — |
| 18605915 | SIGNAL LATCHING CIRCUIT AND METHOD, BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND BATTERY SYSTEM | KO, CHAE M | — |
| 18476446 | ELECTROCHEMICAL APPARATUS AND ELECTRICAL DEVICE | SUN, MICHAEL Y | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18895745 | DC ARC SIGNAL GENERATION CIRCUIT, DC ARC DETECTION DEVICE AND ELECTRICAL DEVICE | ZAKARIA, AKM | — |
| 18613315 | BATTERY PACK, ELECTROCHEMICAL APPARATUS AND ELECTRICAL DEVICE | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | — |
| 18613952 | BATTERY MODULE AND ELECTRIC DEVICE | BERNATZ, KEVIN M | — |
| 18609213 | ELECTROCHEMICAL APPARATUS AND ELECTRICAL DEVICE | OTT, PATRICK S | — |
| 18476446 | ELECTROCHEMICAL APPARATUS AND ELECTRICAL DEVICE | SUN, MICHAEL Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1723 | 2 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| 2114 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18895745 | DC ARC SIGNAL GENERATION CIRCUIT, DC ARC DETECTION DEVICE AND ELECTRICAL DEVICE | ZAKARIA, AKM | 2858 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18621123 | BATTERY MODULE AND ELECTRICAL DEVICE | TORRES DIAZ, ISAAC GREGORIO | 1723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18613315 | BATTERY PACK, ELECTROCHEMICAL APPARATUS AND ELECTRICAL DEVICE | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 1723 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18613952 | BATTERY MODULE AND ELECTRIC DEVICE | BERNATZ, KEVIN M | 1785 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18609213 | ELECTROCHEMICAL APPARATUS AND ELECTRICAL DEVICE | OTT, PATRICK S | 1794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18605915 | SIGNAL LATCHING CIRCUIT AND METHOD, BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND BATTERY SYSTEM | KO, CHAE M | 2114 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18413070 | BATTERY PACK AND ELECTRIC DEVICE | MARTIN, ANGELA J | 1727 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 18476446 | ELECTROCHEMICAL APPARATUS AND ELECTRICAL DEVICE | SUN, MICHAEL Y | 1728 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialXiamen Ampack Technology Limited has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 8 examiners.
Akm Zakaria has the most, with 1 of Xiamen Ampack Technology Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
