Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
10 pending office actions • 4 clients • 8 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
CANTOR COLBURN LLP - FastCAP Systems operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area, utilizing the firm's broad experience of 74190 career applications. This specific designation currently manages 6 pending office actions, representing a focused set of active matters. The firm's history across a wide range of technical fields provides a context for its work in chemical and material science patents.
The firm reports a resolved allowance rate pct of 88.07, indicating success in securing patent rights. This success is achieved with an avg_office_actions_per_allowance of 3.16, suggesting that the firm typically navigates the examination process in a specific number of office actions. The 88.07 resolved allowance rate pct is a key indicator of the firm's effectiveness in the Chemistry & Materials sector. With 74190 career applications, the 3.16 avg_office_actions_per_allowance provides a reliable benchmark for the expected duration of the prosecution cycle. These data points offer a view of the firm's performance and capacity.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (30%) |
| §102 only | 2 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (30%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERGUSON, DION | 2 | 87.0% | +8.2% |
| JONES, OLIVIA ANN | 2 | 58.6% | +52.3% |
| GRAY, GEORGE STERLING | 1 | 75.3% | +9.9% |
| MCCONNELL, WYATT P | 1 | 80.6% | +9.4% |
| LI, AIQUN | 1 | 63.8% | +23.1% |
| WEST, ROBERT GENE | 1 | 74.8% | +24.4% |
| GILLIAM, BARBARA LEE | 1 | 24.1% | +13.4% |
| KASS-MULLET, BENJAMIN ELI | 1 | 70.4% | +8.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18029199 | ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES | FERGUSON, DION | 112d overdue |
| 18945893 | CHIP FORM ULTRACAPACITOR | FERGUSON, DION | — |
| 18580319 | ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES | MCCONNELL, WYATT P | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18247849 | MANUFACTURE OF ELECTRODES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES | GILLIAM, BARBARA LEE | 26d |
| 18240545 | ELECTRODES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES | WEST, ROBERT GENE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18247849 | MANUFACTURE OF ELECTRODES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES | GILLIAM, BARBARA LEE | 26d |
| 18220050 | ELECTRODES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES | JONES, OLIVIA ANN | 34d |
| 18081057 | ELECTRODES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES | JONES, OLIVIA ANN | 34d |
| 18481651 | ELECTRODES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES | LI, AIQUN | — |
| 18240545 | ELECTRODES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES | WEST, ROBERT GENE | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Nanoramic | 4 |
| FASTCAP ULTRACAPACITORS LLC | 3 |
| Fastcap Systems | 2 |
| Nanoramic, Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2847 | 2 |
| 1789 | 2 |
| 3676 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| 1752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19451802 | POWER SYSTEM FOR DOWNHOLE TOOLSTRING | Fastcap Ultracapacitors LLC | GRAY, GEORGE STERLING | 3676 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2026 |
| 18945893 | CHIP FORM ULTRACAPACITOR | Fastcap Ultracapacitors LLC | FERGUSON, DION | 2847 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18580319 | ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES | Fastcap Systems Corporation | MCCONNELL, WYATT P | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 | |
| 18481651 | ELECTRODES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES | Nanoramic, Inc. | LI, AIQUN | 1766 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 05, 2023 |
| 18240545 | ELECTRODES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES | Fastcap Ultracapacitors LLC | WEST, ROBERT GENE | 1721 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
| 18220050 | ELECTRODES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES | Nanoramic, Inc. | JONES, OLIVIA ANN | 1789 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
| 18247849 | MANUFACTURE OF ELECTRODES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES | Nanoramic, Inc. | GILLIAM, BARBARA LEE | 1727 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Apr 04, 2023 |
| 18029199 | ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES | Nanoramic, Inc. | FERGUSON, DION | 2847 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | 112d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2023 |
| 18081057 | ELECTRODES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES | Fastcap Systems Corporation | JONES, OLIVIA ANN | 1789 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Dec 14, 2022 |
| 18062214 | ELECTRODES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES | Nanoramic, Inc. | KASS-MULLET, BENJAMIN ELI | 1752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2022 |
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