Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Alpha Tech Research Corp. is managing a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area with 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, indicating a varied range of review within the USPTO. The busiest examiner, DAVIS, SHARON M, is currently handling 1 pending action. This suggests that the workload is evenly spread, as no single examiner is managing more than 1 of the company's 2 pending actions. The focus on 2 distinct examiners suggests that the company's current legal strategy involves multiple points of contact.
The portfolio's reach extends across 2 distinct art units, which matches the number of distinct examiners involved. This variety shows that the company's 2 pending office actions involve different technical specialties or mechanical applications. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution strategy must be adapted to the specific standards of 2 different art units and 2 different examiners. The presence of 2 pending actions across these units reflects a distributed prosecution profile where each matter is handled by a unique examiner. DAVIS, SHARON M holds 1 pending action, making their specific examination style a factor in the company's current prosecution outcomes.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIS, SHARON M | 1 | 68.1% | +26.6% |
| MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM | 1 | 66.1% | +21.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18341760 | POOL TYPE LIQUID METAL COOLED MOLTEN SALT REACTOR | DAVIS, SHARON M | 8d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18250205 | Reference Electrode for Molten Salts | MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM | 15d overdue |
| 18341760 | POOL TYPE LIQUID METAL COOLED MOLTEN SALT REACTOR | DAVIS, SHARON M | 8d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3646 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18341760 | POOL TYPE LIQUID METAL COOLED MOLTEN SALT REACTOR | DAVIS, SHARON M | 3646 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18250205 | Reference Electrode for Molten Salts | MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM | 1794 | §102 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAlpha Tech Research Corp. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Sharon M Davis has the most, with 1 of Alpha Tech Research Corp.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
