Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
FuelCell Energy Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio involves 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. LAURA S WEINER is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. With 2 pending office actions spread across 2 distinct art units, the prosecution workload is currently decentralized across different examination teams.
The distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners indicates that the company must manage multiple prosecution timelines. Because LAURA S WEINER handles 1 pending office action, the workload is split evenly among the assigned staff. This 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units structure requires the company to address different examiner expectations and art unit guidelines within the Chemistry & Materials field. The presence of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's current intellectual property covers multiple technical classifications.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEINER, LAURA S | 1 | 85.2% | +14.7% |
| ROSENBAUM, AMANDA R | 1 | 59.0% | +12.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18227137 | HYBRID FABRICATION METHOD FOR FUEL CELL FLOW FIELDS | WEINER, LAURA S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18100536 | Sintered Anode For Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell | ROSENBAUM, AMANDA R | 29d |
| 18227137 | HYBRID FABRICATION METHOD FOR FUEL CELL FLOW FIELDS | WEINER, LAURA S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1723 | 1 |
| 1752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18227137 | HYBRID FABRICATION METHOD FOR FUEL CELL FLOW FIELDS | WEINER, LAURA S | 1723 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 18100536 | Sintered Anode For Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell | ROSENBAUM, AMANDA R | 1752 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Jan 23, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialFuelCell Energy Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Laura S Weiner has the most, with 1 of FuelCell Energy Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
