Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
16 pending office actions • 13 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bloom Energy Corporation has 16 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters span 15 distinct examiners and 13 distinct art units, indicating a broad prosecution footprint with limited concentration by examiner and art unit.
LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel may benefit from centralized portfolio oversight while preserving separate response strategies for the many examination assignments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 | 9 (56%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER | 2 | 69.6% | +9.9% |
| MELFI, OLIVIA MASON | 1 | 57.4% | +27.4% |
| MARTIN, MATTHEW T | 1 | 44.7% | +38.7% |
| LOVASZ, MYLES ALAN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| STANLEY, JACOB ROBERT | 1 | — | — |
| SAVAGE, WILLIAM FADDOUL | 1 | — | — |
| SLIFKA, SARAH A | 1 | 75.5% | +11.3% |
| LAIOS, MARIA J | 1 | 69.2% | +18.2% |
| BUCHANAN, JACOB | 1 | 56.1% | +44.7% |
| MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 1 | 81.6% | +2.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18497480 | BINDER JET PRINTING OF METALLIC INTERCONNECT FOR SOLID OXIDE ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL STACK | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 17d overdue |
| 18624584 | INERT ATMOSPHERE SINTERING OF ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL STACK INTERCONNECTS | LOVASZ, MYLES ALAN | — |
| 18601757 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM CONFIGURED TO OPERATE IN COLD CONDITIONS AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | SAVAGE, WILLIAM FADDOUL | — |
| 18431774 | LARGE SITE FUEL CELL POWER SYSTEM INCLUDING HOT GAS DESULFURIZER AND METHOD OF OPERATING THEREOF | SLIFKA, SARAH A | — |
| 18412150 | SOLID OXIDE ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL CONTAINING STRONTIUM GETTER | LAIOS, MARIA J | — |
| 18474919 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THEREOF USING HUMIDIFIED AMMONIA FUEL | JONES, OLIVIA ANN | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18660421 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEM FUEL EXHAUST | MELFI, OLIVIA MASON | 15d |
| 18640490 | ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL STACK INTERCONNECTS HAVING COPPER CONTAINING PROTECTIVE LAYERS AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF | MARTIN, MATTHEW T | — |
| 18431774 | LARGE SITE FUEL CELL POWER SYSTEM INCLUDING HOT GAS DESULFURIZER AND METHOD OF OPERATING THEREOF | SLIFKA, SARAH A | — |
| 18412150 | SOLID OXIDE ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL CONTAINING STRONTIUM GETTER | LAIOS, MARIA J | — |
| 18529414 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM CONFIGURED TO OPERATE IN COLD CONDITIONS AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | BUCHANAN, JACOB | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1724 | 3 |
| 1782 | 2 |
| 1729 | 1 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18660421 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEM FUEL EXHAUST | MELFI, OLIVIA MASON | 1729 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18640490 | ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL STACK INTERCONNECTS HAVING COPPER CONTAINING PROTECTIVE LAYERS AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF | MARTIN, MATTHEW T | 1728 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18624584 | INERT ATMOSPHERE SINTERING OF ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL STACK INTERCONNECTS | LOVASZ, MYLES ALAN | 1788 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
| 18620195 | ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL STACKS INCLUDING INTERCONNECT END PLATES | STANLEY, JACOB ROBERT | 1782 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18601757 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM CONFIGURED TO OPERATE IN COLD CONDITIONS AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | SAVAGE, WILLIAM FADDOUL | 1782 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18431774 | LARGE SITE FUEL CELL POWER SYSTEM INCLUDING HOT GAS DESULFURIZER AND METHOD OF OPERATING THEREOF | SLIFKA, SARAH A | 1759 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 18412150 | SOLID OXIDE ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL CONTAINING STRONTIUM GETTER | LAIOS, MARIA J | 1727 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18529414 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM CONFIGURED TO OPERATE IN COLD CONDITIONS AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | BUCHANAN, JACOB | 1725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18497480 | BINDER JET PRINTING OF METALLIC INTERCONNECT FOR SOLID OXIDE ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL STACK | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 1733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
| 18474919 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THEREOF USING HUMIDIFIED AMMONIA FUEL | JONES, OLIVIA ANN | 1789 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 18357802 | MIXED MEDIA DESULFURIZATION SYSTEMS AND FUEL CELL SYSTEMS INCLUDING THE SAME | LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER | 1724 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
| 18318194 | HYDROGEN POWERED FUEL CELL SYSTEM INCLUDING CONDENSER AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME USING PRESSURE CONTROL | LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER | 1724 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | May 16, 2023 |
| 18310793 | FUEL CELL POWER SYSTEM INCLUDING AIR FLOW CONTROL AND METHOD OF OPERATING THEREOF | TRAN, UYEN M | 1726 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 02, 2023 |
| 18299950 | COMBINED FUEL CELL AND DIGESTION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THEREOF | GREENE, PATRICK MARSHALL | 1724 | §103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Apr 13, 2023 |
| 18146238 | ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INSTALLING SAME USING A SKID | KERNS, KEVIN P | 1735 | §103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Dec 23, 2022 |
| 17670154 | GLASS CERAMIC SEAL MATERIAL FOR FUEL CELL STACKS | SMITH, JEREMIAH R | 1723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Feb 11, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialBloom Energy Corporation has 16 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 13 art units and 15 examiners.
Michelle Turner Leonard has the most, with 2 of Bloom Energy Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
