Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 1 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 is managing 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of all actions within a single art unit suggests a focused technical area, even though different examiners are reviewing the individual cases.
MICHAEL PATRICK MALONEY is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. With multiple examiners involved, the workload is split such that no single examiner holds a majority of the company's pending workload. For the applicant, this provides different perspectives from within the same art unit, which can be valuable for understanding the examination trends for their specific fuel cell technologies.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 | — | — |
| KLINE, SYDNEY LYNN | 1 | 71.4% | +26.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 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 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18459686 | FUEL CELL DEVICE | KLINE, SYDNEY LYNN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18661260 | FUEL CELL DEVICE | MALONEY, MICHAEL PATRICK | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18610142 | FUEL CELL DEVICE HAVING A CASING | ROSA BERRIOS, NICOLAS JENNIEL | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18459686 | FUEL CELL DEVICE | KLINE, SYDNEY LYNN | 1729 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
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