Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 27, 2026

Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC

Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials

21 pending office actions • 15 art units • 19 examiners • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC has 21 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters span 19 distinct examiners and 15 distinct art units, showing a distributed docket with recurring examiner and unit assignments. Centralized tracking can help identify shared chemistry and materials issues, even though individual prosecution records remain important.

HASKE, WOJCIECH is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The limited concentration supports focused review of those matters without making the examiner the center of the entire portfolio strategy. Art-unit practices may offer broader guidance for amendment planning and interview preparation.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

21
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
9
Final Rejections
0
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.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
2
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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.

12
Hard (57%)
7
Medium (33%)
1
Easy (5%)
1
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (33%)
§112 only1 (5%)
Multi-statute (no §101)12 (57%)
No statute on record1 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

19
Life Sciences
90% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
5% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
5% 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.

210 h
Manual time on pending OAs
42 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
74 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HASKE, WOJCIECH 2 73.2% +17.6%
SAIDHA, TEKCHAND 2 82.9% +14.0%
EMPIE, NATHAN H 1 43.4% +43.3%
GOLDEN, ANDREW J 1 42.9% +38.1%
CHOWDHURY, IQBAL HOSSAIN 1 73.6% +57.6%
JALALI, AMIR A. 1 78.7% +22.5%
HOPKINS, ROBERT A 1 84.5% +7.6%
ALVARE, PAUL 1 57.6% +36.8%
ROBINSON, HOPE A 1 67.7% +43.0%
YAMASAKI, ROBERT J 1 67.4% +44.1%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18890990 MASS TRANSFER ASSEMBLIES WITH HEAT SINK AIR CHANNELS HOPKINS, ROBERT A —
18626205 PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA STRAINS ENGINEERED FOR PRODUCTION OF MUCONIC ACID FROM P-METHOXYLATED BENZOIC ACIDS SAIDHA, TEKCHAND —

Hard Cases (12)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18461351 NANOWIRED FORMATE DEHYDROGENASE SYSTEM FOR REDUCTION OF CARBON DIOXIDE TO FORMATE HASKE, WOJCIECH 117d overdue
18353673 ACID TOLERANT CLOSTRIDIA RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM 67d overdue
18546920 ENGINEERED THERMOSTABLE CARBONIC ANHYDRASE ENZYMES SAIDHA, TEKCHAND 38d overdue
18349867 PEGBOARD PROTEIN PURIFICATION PLATE FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT PROTEIN CHARACTERIZATION NGUYEN, NAM P 33d
19242729 PHOTORESIST PASSIVATION OF DEFECTS IN PEROVSKITE LAYERS EMPIE, NATHAN H 54d
19018909 ENGINEERED CLOSTRIDIUM THERMOCELLUM FOR CO-UTILIZATION OF HEMICELLULOSE AND CELLULOSE CHOWDHURY, IQBAL HOSSAIN —
18934352 HEATSINK DESIGN WITH VARIABLE EFFECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT JALALI, AMIR A. —
18787311 METHODS FOR ENGINEERING OUTER MEMBRANE VESICLE PRODUCTION AND CARGO PACKAGING IN PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA ROBINSON, HOPE A —

Interview Candidates (11)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18461351 NANOWIRED FORMATE DEHYDROGENASE SYSTEM FOR REDUCTION OF CARBON DIOXIDE TO FORMATE HASKE, WOJCIECH 117d overdue
18546920 ENGINEERED THERMOSTABLE CARBONIC ANHYDRASE ENZYMES SAIDHA, TEKCHAND 38d overdue
18822603 Thermochemical Material Systems for Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning ALVARE, PAUL 22d
19242729 PHOTORESIST PASSIVATION OF DEFECTS IN PEROVSKITE LAYERS EMPIE, NATHAN H 54d
19254671 Perforated membranes for the efficient conversion of carbon monoxide to organic compounds HASKE, WOJCIECH —
19188905 Dual Oxide Moisture Barrier GOLDEN, ANDREW J —
19018909 ENGINEERED CLOSTRIDIUM THERMOCELLUM FOR CO-UTILIZATION OF HEMICELLULOSE AND CELLULOSE CHOWDHURY, IQBAL HOSSAIN —
18934352 HEATSINK DESIGN WITH VARIABLE EFFECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT JALALI, AMIR A. —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1652 5
1794 2
1726 2
1656 1
2841 1
1776 1
3763 1
1657 1
1763 1
1678 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19254671 Perforated membranes for the efficient conversion of carbon monoxide to organic compounds HASKE, WOJCIECH 1794 Other Final Rejection — Pending Jun 30, 2025
19242729 PHOTORESIST PASSIVATION OF DEFECTS IN PEROVSKITE LAYERS EMPIE, NATHAN H 1726 §102§103 Final Rejection 54d Pending Jun 18, 2025
19188905 Dual Oxide Moisture Barrier GOLDEN, ANDREW J 1726 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 24, 2025
19018909 ENGINEERED CLOSTRIDIUM THERMOCELLUM FOR CO-UTILIZATION OF HEMICELLULOSE AND CELLULOSE CHOWDHURY, IQBAL HOSSAIN 1656 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 13, 2025
18934352 HEATSINK DESIGN WITH VARIABLE EFFECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT JALALI, AMIR A. 2841 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 01, 2024
18890990 MASS TRANSFER ASSEMBLIES WITH HEAT SINK AIR CHANNELS HOPKINS, ROBERT A 1776 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 20, 2024
18822603 Thermochemical Material Systems for Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning ALVARE, PAUL 3763 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Sep 03, 2024
18787311 METHODS FOR ENGINEERING OUTER MEMBRANE VESICLE PRODUCTION AND CARGO PACKAGING IN PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA ROBINSON, HOPE A 1652 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 29, 2024
18833797 GENETICALLY ENGINEERED BACTERIUM FOR THE PRODUCTION OF 3-HYDROXYBUTYRATE YAMASAKI, ROBERT J 1657 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 26, 2024
18777137 PRETREATMENT OF LIGNOCELLULOSE USING TWO STAGE ALKALI AND MECHANICAL REFINING PROCESSES MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y 1652 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 18, 2024
18626205 PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA STRAINS ENGINEERED FOR PRODUCTION OF MUCONIC ACID FROM P-METHOXYLATED BENZOIC ACIDS SAIDHA, TEKCHAND 1652 §112 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 03, 2024
18483151 SYNERGISTIC DUAL CURE FOR RAPID MANUFACTURING OF THERMOSET MATERIAL WHITELEY, JESSICA 1763 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 09, 2023
18461351 NANOWIRED FORMATE DEHYDROGENASE SYSTEM FOR REDUCTION OF CARBON DIOXIDE TO FORMATE HASKE, WOJCIECH 1794 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 117d overdue Pending Sep 05, 2023
18546920 ENGINEERED THERMOSTABLE CARBONIC ANHYDRASE ENZYMES SAIDHA, TEKCHAND 1652 §102§112Other Final Rejection 38d overdue Pending Aug 17, 2023
18353673 ACID TOLERANT CLOSTRIDIA RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM 1652 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 67d overdue Pending Jul 17, 2023
18349867 PEGBOARD PROTEIN PURIFICATION PLATE FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT PROTEIN CHARACTERIZATION NGUYEN, NAM P 1678 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jul 10, 2023
18166331 DISSOLUTION PURIFICATION AND RECOVERY FOR POLYMER RECYCLING RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD 1759 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 08, 2023
17783716 HYBRID THERMAL - CHROMATOGRAPHIC SYSTEM FOR SIMULTANEOUS MINERAL PURIFICATION AND DESALINATION OF SALINE WATERS MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. 1773 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Jun 09, 2022
17522726 GAS BIOCATALYSIS VIA AN IMMOBILIZED CELL BIOREACTOR ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY 1799 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 09, 2021
17261473 RENEWABLE POWER TO RENEWABLE NATURAL GAS USING BIOLOGICAL METHANE PRODUCTION KEELING, ALEXANDER W 1795 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 19, 2021
16902117 HYDRIDE VAPOR PHASE EPITAXY REACTORS SONG, MATTHEW J 1714 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 15, 2020

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC have?

Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC has 21 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 15 art units and 19 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC applications?

Wojciech Haske has the most, with 2 of Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC's pending office actions.

What technology area are Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC's patent applications in?

Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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