Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
12 pending office actions • 6 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 | 6 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER | 2 | 70.2% | +11.4% |
| CHOWDHURI, SWARNA N | 1 | 76.6% | +19.1% |
| MELFI, OLIVIA MASON | 1 | 57.4% | +27.4% |
| BAIRD, CAMERON MICHAEL | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| LOVASZ, MYLES ALAN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| SAVAGE, WILLIAM FADDOUL | 1 | — | — |
| LAIOS, MARIA J | 1 | 69.0% | +18.3% |
| JONES, OLIVIA ANN | 1 | 58.6% | +52.3% |
| GREENE, PATRICK MARSHALL | 1 | 70.4% | +25.0% |
| KERNS, KEVIN P | 1 | 79.0% | +21.2% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18640490 | ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL STACK INTERCONNECTS HAVING COPPER CONTAINING PROTECTIVE LAYERS AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF | BAIRD, CAMERON MICHAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18299950 | COMBINED FUEL CELL AND DIGESTION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THEREOF | GREENE, PATRICK MARSHALL | 10d overdue |
| 18146238 | ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INSTALLING SAME USING A SKID | KERNS, KEVIN P | 62d |
| 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 | — |
| 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18299950 | COMBINED FUEL CELL AND DIGESTION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THEREOF | GREENE, PATRICK MARSHALL | 10d overdue |
| 18660421 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEM FUEL EXHAUST | MELFI, OLIVIA MASON | 15d |
| 18318194 | HYDROGEN POWERED FUEL CELL SYSTEM INCLUDING CONDENSER AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME USING PRESSURE CONTROL | LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER | 15d |
| 18357802 | MIXED MEDIA DESULFURIZATION SYSTEMS AND FUEL CELL SYSTEMS INCLUDING THE SAME | LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER | 29d |
| 18146238 | ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INSTALLING SAME USING A SKID | KERNS, KEVIN P | 62d |
| 18906769 | SELECTIVE GROUNDING OF GRID PARALLEL INVERTER SYSTEMS | CHOWDHURI, SWARNA N | 71d |
| 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1724 | 3 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| 1729 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18906769 | SELECTIVE GROUNDING OF GRID PARALLEL INVERTER SYSTEMS | CHOWDHURI, SWARNA N | 2836 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 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 | BAIRD, CAMERON MICHAEL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18624584 | INERT ATMOSPHERE SINTERING OF ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL STACK INTERCONNECTS | LOVASZ, MYLES ALAN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
| 18601757 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM CONFIGURED TO OPERATE IN COLD CONDITIONS AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | SAVAGE, WILLIAM FADDOUL | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18412150 | SOLID OXIDE ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL CONTAINING STRONTIUM GETTER | LAIOS, MARIA J | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 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 |
| 18299950 | COMBINED FUEL CELL AND DIGESTION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THEREOF | GREENE, PATRICK MARSHALL | 1724 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Apr 13, 2023 |
| 18146238 | ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INSTALLING SAME USING A SKID | KERNS, KEVIN P | 1735 | §102§103§112 | 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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