Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Klarquist Sparkman, LLP (Battelle)

8 pending office actions • 1 client • 8 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due later (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.

0
Hard (0%)
7
Medium (88%)
1
Easy (12%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (88%)
§112 only1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
75% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
12% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
12% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
XU, XIAOYUN 1 59.6% +32.3%
KRASNIC, BERNARD 1 77.9% +56.8%
RHEE, JANE J 1 85.9% +12.5%
DOVE, TRACY MAE 1 69.3% +10.2%
TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. 1 65.1% +28.2%
LA RAIA III, LAWRENCE 1 75.0% +32.3%
NEWMAN, DREW C 1 42.4% +34.3%
RUTHKOSKY, MARK 1 58.5% +7.2%

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
18130281 ALUMINUM-ETHER-BASED COMPOSITION FOR BATTERIES AND AMBIENT TEMPERATURE ALUMINUM DEPOSITION RHEE, JANE J 15d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18209858 METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF PROTEOME ANALYSIS AND IMAGING XU, XIAOYUN 44d overdue
18099550 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIRECT AIR CAPTURE OF WATER AND CO2 TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. 23d overdue
18030166 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) ASSISTED ANALYSIS OF ELECTRON MICROSCOPE DATA KRASNIC, BERNARD 16d overdue
17507432 AIR-STABLE SOLID-STATE SULFIDE ELECTROLYTE NEWMAN, DREW C 10d overdue
18177586 INDIUM ZINC-BASED ALLOY ANODES FORMING POROUS STRUCTURE FOR AQUEOUS ZINC BATTERIES DOVE, TRACY MAE 2d overdue
18130281 ALUMINUM-ETHER-BASED COMPOSITION FOR BATTERIES AND AMBIENT TEMPERATURE ALUMINUM DEPOSITION RHEE, JANE J 15d
17552340 NONFLAMMABLE ELECTROLYTES LA RAIA III, LAWRENCE 70d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE 8

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17971
26711
17241
17251
37621
17271
17511
17851

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18209858 METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF PROTEOME ANALYSIS AND IMAGING BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE XU, XIAOYUN 1797 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2023
18030166 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) ASSISTED ANALYSIS OF ELECTRON MICROSCOPE DATA BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE KRASNIC, BERNARD 2671 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Apr 04, 2023
18130281 ALUMINUM-ETHER-BASED COMPOSITION FOR BATTERIES AND AMBIENT TEMPERATURE ALUMINUM DEPOSITION BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE RHEE, JANE J 1724 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Apr 03, 2023
18177586 INDIUM ZINC-BASED ALLOY ANODES FORMING POROUS STRUCTURE FOR AQUEOUS ZINC BATTERIES BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE DOVE, TRACY MAE 1725 §112 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Mar 02, 2023
18099550 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIRECT AIR CAPTURE OF WATER AND CO2 BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. 3762 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jan 20, 2023
17552340 NONFLAMMABLE ELECTROLYTES BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE LA RAIA III, LAWRENCE 1727 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Dec 15, 2021
17507432 AIR-STABLE SOLID-STATE SULFIDE ELECTROLYTE BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE NEWMAN, DREW C 1751 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Oct 21, 2021
16904376 ELECTROLYTES FOR RECHARGEABLE METAL-SULFUR BATTERIES BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE RUTHKOSKY, MARK 1785 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Jun 17, 2020

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