Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Electric Power Research Institute Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This 1 pending office action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The matter is located within 1 distinct art unit. This profile shows a focused pending portfolio, with only 1 application currently undergoing active prosecution in this technical field. The concentration of the workload in 1 distinct art unit suggests a specific technical classification for the company's current intellectual property efforts.
The busiest examiner is BOCHNA, DAVID, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This examiner is the only individual currently managing a pending matter for the company. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company's prosecution is entirely concentrated. This means that the immediate results in the transportation and mechanical sector depend on the review of this examiner. Practitioners should focus their efforts on addressing the specific requirements and feedback of BOCHNA, DAVID to advance the application through the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DINH, BACH T | 1 | 55.5% | +31.1% |
| BOCHNA, DAVID | 1 | 79.9% | +13.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18727060 | Methodology to Enable the Use of Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Alloys and Precipitation Strengthen Nickel-Based Alloys for Advanced Energy Systems | BOCHNA, DAVID | 259d overdue |
| 19207571 | BIFACIAL PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE TEST METHOD | DINH, BACH T | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18727060 | Methodology to Enable the Use of Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Alloys and Precipitation Strengthen Nickel-Based Alloys for Advanced Energy Systems | BOCHNA, DAVID | 259d overdue |
| 19207571 | BIFACIAL PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE TEST METHOD | DINH, BACH T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1726 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19207571 | BIFACIAL PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE TEST METHOD | DINH, BACH T | 1726 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 18727060 | Methodology to Enable the Use of Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Alloys and Precipitation Strengthen Nickel-Based Alloys for Advanced Energy Systems | BOCHNA, DAVID | 3679 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 259d overdue | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialElectric Power Research Institute Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Bach T Dinh has the most, with 1 of Electric Power Research Institute Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
