Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the docket spans multiple examiner relationships while remaining within a smaller set of technical units.
ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Because the examiner assignments are distinct, counsel should maintain separate response histories and identify whether the two matters within the same art-unit structure raise related issues. Cross-matter consistency may help, but the individual actions should control the response strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 1 | 48.8% | +19.2% |
| HENDRICKSON, STUART L | 1 | 72.4% | +8.1% |
| MCCRACKEN, DANIEL | 1 | 71.9% | +16.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18779584 | HEAT DISSIPATION SYSTEMS WITH HYGROSCOPIC WORKING FLUID | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 13d |
| 17931720 | GRAPHITE AND METHOD OF PREPARING GRAPHITE | MCCRACKEN, DANIEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1736 | 2 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18779584 | HEAT DISSIPATION SYSTEMS WITH HYGROSCOPIC WORKING FLUID | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 3799 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18522842 | TREATMENT OF BRINE | HENDRICKSON, STUART L | 1736 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 17931720 | GRAPHITE AND METHOD OF PREPARING GRAPHITE | MCCRACKEN, DANIEL | 1736 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialEnergy and Environmental Research Center Foundation has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Christopher R Zerphey has the most, with 1 of Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
