Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ekpo Fuel Cell Technologies GmbH has 4 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The portfolio spans 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, so each pending matter is associated with a separate examination channel. MALONEY, MICHAEL PATRICK is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter.
The one-to-one distribution across examiners and art units suggests that prosecution management should be organized by application rather than through a single examiner strategy. Counsel can still coordinate claim terminology and technical positions across the fuel-cell portfolio, while preserving response plans suited to each art-unit setting. A consolidated docket review can identify recurring chemistry or materials issues without assuming that one examiner’s approach controls the other matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MALONEY, MICHAEL PATRICK | 1 | — | — |
| ROSA BERRIOS, NICOLAS JENNIEL | 1 | — | — |
| MARTIN, TRAVIS LYNDEN | 1 | 61.1% | +44.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18661260 | FUEL CELL DEVICE | MALONEY, MICHAEL PATRICK | — |
| 18610142 | FUEL CELL DEVICE HAVING A CASING | ROSA BERRIOS, NICOLAS JENNIEL | — |
| 18409426 | Fuel cell system and method for discharging water from a fuel cell system | MARTIN, TRAVIS LYNDEN | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18409426 | Fuel cell system and method for discharging water from a fuel cell system | MARTIN, TRAVIS LYNDEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1782 | 1 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18661260 | FUEL CELL DEVICE | MALONEY, MICHAEL PATRICK | 1782 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18610142 | FUEL CELL DEVICE HAVING A CASING | ROSA BERRIOS, NICOLAS JENNIEL | 1741 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18409426 | Fuel cell system and method for discharging water from a fuel cell system | MARTIN, TRAVIS LYNDEN | 1721 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialEkpo Fuel Cell Technologies GmbH has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Michael Patrick Maloney has the most, with 1 of Ekpo Fuel Cell Technologies GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
