Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nanotech Energy Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's pending matters are being reviewed by different groups within the USPTO. The involvement of these 2 distinct art units suggests that the technical subject matter of the filings spans multiple classifications within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
ANDREW T PIZIALI is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 action is part of the 2 pending office actions currently active for the company. Because there are 2 distinct examiners involved, the prosecution strategy must account for different examiner behaviors across the different matters.
The workload is shared between the 2 distinct examiners, as the busiest examiner handles 1 busiest examiner pending action and the other examiner handles the remaining action. This spread across the 2 distinct art units requires an approach to the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Each unit may have procedural requirements that the company will need to navigate simultaneously.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 1 | 28.4% | +27.4% |
| MCCRACKEN, DANIEL | 1 | 71.9% | +16.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18459294 | METALLIC BASED ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE SHIELDING MATERIALS, DEVICES, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF | PIZIALI, ANDREW 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18459294 | METALLIC BASED ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE SHIELDING MATERIALS, DEVICES, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | — |
| 18458915 | METHODS OF GRAPHENE PRODUCTION & COMPOSITIONS THEREOF | MCCRACKEN, DANIEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1789 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18459294 | METALLIC BASED ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE SHIELDING MATERIALS, DEVICES, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 1789 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
| 18458915 | METHODS OF GRAPHENE PRODUCTION & COMPOSITIONS THEREOF | MCCRACKEN, DANIEL | 1736 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNanotech Energy Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Andrew T Piziali has the most, with 1 of Nanotech Energy Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
