Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Cantor Colburn LLP - Fastcap Systems

9 pending office actions • 3 clients • 9 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=73473 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

88.1%
Allowance Rate
n=73473
+0.54σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=73473
3.2
OAs to Allowance
n=51629
-0.21σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=51629
1017 days
Time to Allowance
n=51629
+3.9pp
Interview Lift
n=73473
25.9%
RCE Rate
n=73473
2.1%
Appeal Rate
n=73473

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

75.6%
§101 Overcome
n=3150
81.0%
§102 Overcome
n=23579
81.1%
§103 Overcome
n=36783
82.5%
§112 Overcome
n=23383

Specialization & Scale

H10K, G02F, G06F
Top CPC Subclasses
9%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=73473
68
Practitioners
n=73473
1080.5
Apps / Practitioner
n=73473

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)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.

3
Hard (33%)
5
Medium (56%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (11%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (11%)
§102 only2 (22%)
Double-patenting + other2 (22%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (33%)
No statute on record1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
78% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
22% 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
LI, AIQUN 1 64.0% +22.3%
WEST, ROBERT GENE 1 76.8% +26.9%
JONES, OLIVIA ANN 1 56.0% +52.1%
WEI, ZHONGQING 1 58.7% +16.5%
FERGUSON, DION 1 86.9% +8.3%
SONG, KEVIN 1 71.1% +17.6%
TALBOT, BRIAN K 1 59.1% +31.0%
MCFARLAND, DANIEL PATRICK 1 20.0% +8.3%
OROZCO, MARIA F 1 68.2% +3.3%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18029199 ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES FERGUSON, DION 112d overdue

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17976080 ADVANCED ELECTROLYTES FOR HIGH TEMERATURE ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE MCFARLAND, DANIEL PATRICK 29d overdue
18220050 ELECTRODES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES JONES, OLIVIA ANN 34d
18240545 ELECTRODES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES WEST, ROBERT GENE
17927034 SI-CONTAINING COMPOSITE ANODE FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES SONG, KEVIN

Interview Candidates (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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18220067 ELECTRODES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES WEI, ZHONGQING 24d overdue
18220050 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
17927034 SI-CONTAINING COMPOSITE ANODE FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES SONG, KEVIN
17986077 ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES TALBOT, BRIAN K

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Nanoramic 6
FASTCAP ULTRACAPACITORS LLC 2
Nanoramic, Inc. 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17661
17211
17891
17271
28471
17281
17121
28591
17291

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jul 10, 2023
18220067 ELECTRODES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES Nanoramic, Inc. WEI, ZHONGQING 1727 Other Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Jul 10, 2023
18029199 ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES Nanoramic, Inc. FERGUSON, DION 2847 §102Other Non-Final OA 112d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2023
17927034 SI-CONTAINING COMPOSITE ANODE FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES Nanoramic, Inc. SONG, KEVIN 1728 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 22, 2022
17986077 ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES Nanoramic, Inc. TALBOT, BRIAN K 1712 §103DP Non-Final OA Pending Nov 14, 2022
17976080 ADVANCED ELECTROLYTES FOR HIGH TEMERATURE ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE Fastcap Ultracapacitors LLC MCFARLAND, DANIEL PATRICK 2859 §103 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Oct 28, 2022
17941424 MANUFACTURE OF ELECTRODES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES Nanoramic, Inc. OROZCO, MARIA F 1729 §103DP Final Rejection Pending Sep 09, 2022

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