Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE has 8 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 8 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units, creating a broad prosecution workload with limited concentration by examiner.
VETERE, ROBERT A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The listed distribution means counsel should emphasize centralized docket and issue management while preserving matter-specific strategies for each examination record.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 (38%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (62%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VETERE, ROBERT A | 1 | 61.5% | +12.8% |
| HUANG, MICKEY NMN | 1 | 60.0% | +48.0% |
| SON, TAEYOUNG | 1 | 45.7% | +34.0% |
| SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH | 1 | 52.8% | +51.5% |
| LEE, JOHN | 1 | 31.7% | +37.7% |
| SORKIN, DAVID L | 1 | 67.5% | +13.0% |
| SMITH, CATHERINE P | 1 | 16.1% | +16.8% |
| FAN, LYNN Y | 1 | 47.3% | +49.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18331395 | NANO-AMENDED CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS FOR WASTE STABILIZATION | SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH | 26d |
| 18174002 | SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS FOR DISPERSING PARTICLES IN A FLUID OF A FLUID CONTAINER | SORKIN, DAVID L | 26d |
| 17974791 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BUILDING THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS IN A CYLINDRICAL COORDINATE SYSTEM USING POWDER-BASED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES | SMITH, CATHERINE P | 33d |
| 18940963 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING AND DEPOSITING NANO-SCALE MATERIALS | VETERE, ROBERT A | — |
| 18340994 | PLASMONIC PHOTOELECTRODES FOR PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL REDOX FLOW BATTERIES | SON, TAEYOUNG | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18331395 | NANO-AMENDED CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS FOR WASTE STABILIZATION | SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH | 26d |
| 18174002 | SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS FOR DISPERSING PARTICLES IN A FLUID OF A FLUID CONTAINER | SORKIN, DAVID L | 26d |
| 17974791 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BUILDING THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS IN A CYLINDRICAL COORDINATE SYSTEM USING POWDER-BASED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES | SMITH, CATHERINE P | 33d |
| 18940963 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING AND DEPOSITING NANO-SCALE MATERIALS | VETERE, ROBERT A | — |
| 18478133 | BIOMOLECULAR MATERIAL AND RELATED METHODS | HUANG, MICKEY NMN | — |
| 18340994 | PLASMONIC PHOTOELECTRODES FOR PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL REDOX FLOW BATTERIES | SON, TAEYOUNG | — |
| 18330512 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CRYSTALLIZED ALUMINUM HYDRIDE | LEE, JOHN | — |
| 17855141 | POROUS GLASS-BASED MICROBIAL STORAGE AND DELIVERY SYSTEM | FAN, LYNN Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 2 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 1751 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18940963 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING AND DEPOSITING NANO-SCALE MATERIALS | VETERE, ROBERT A | 1712 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18478133 | BIOMOLECULAR MATERIAL AND RELATED METHODS | HUANG, MICKEY NMN | 1758 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18340994 | PLASMONIC PHOTOELECTRODES FOR PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL REDOX FLOW BATTERIES | SON, TAEYOUNG | 1751 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2023 |
| 18331395 | NANO-AMENDED CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS FOR WASTE STABILIZATION | SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH | 1735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
| 18330512 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CRYSTALLIZED ALUMINUM HYDRIDE | LEE, JOHN | 1794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 18174002 | SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS FOR DISPERSING PARTICLES IN A FLUID OF A FLUID CONTAINER | SORKIN, DAVID L | 1774 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
| 17974791 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BUILDING THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS IN A CYLINDRICAL COORDINATE SYSTEM USING POWDER-BASED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES | SMITH, CATHERINE P | 1735 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
| 17855141 | POROUS GLASS-BASED MICROBIAL STORAGE AND DELIVERY SYSTEM | FAN, LYNN Y | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialBATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 8 examiners.
Robert A Vetere has the most, with 1 of BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
