Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
12 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nanotek Instruments Inc. has 11 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. Those matters span 9 distinct examiners and 8 distinct art units, indicating a distributed prosecution profile across the portfolio.
MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D is the busiest identified examiner, with 2 pending matters. The spread across examiners and units means counsel may need matter-specific strategies rather than a single portfolio-wide response approach. It also makes docket coordination and consistency in technical positions important, particularly where related chemistry and materials issues may arise before different examination groups.
The portfolio’s pending workload is therefore broader than a single examiner relationship. Practitioners should track each examiner’s treatment separately while preserving coherent claim terminology and disclosure positions across the open matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 10 (83%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | 3 | 29.9% | +33.1% |
| THOMAS, BRENT C | 2 | 50.3% | +26.1% |
| KLINE, SYDNEY LYNN | 1 | 68.4% | +33.0% |
| LYNCH, VICTORIA HOM | 1 | 86.3% | +9.8% |
| JONES, GORDON A | 1 | 60.8% | +38.6% |
| DOMONE, CHRISTOPHER P | 1 | 83.9% | +20.9% |
| CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG | 1 | 45.8% | +7.3% |
| SMITH, JEREMIAH R | 1 | 58.1% | +24.8% |
| ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | 1 | 55.6% | +23.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16411645 | CONDUCTING POLYMER NETWORK-BASED CATHODE-PROTECTING LAYER FOR LITHIUM METAL SECONDARY BATTERY | LYNCH, VICTORIA HOM | 15d |
| 16288949 | PARTICULATES OF GRAPHENE/CARBON-ENCAPSULATED ALKALI METAL, ELECTRODES, AND ALKALI METAL BATTERY | DOMONE, CHRISTOPHER P | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16288968 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING PARTICULATES OF GRAPHENE/CARBON-ENCAPSULATED ALKALI METAL, ELECTRODES, AND ALKALI METAL BATTERY | MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | 18d overdue |
| 16580334 | PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR GRAPHENE-ENABLED BI-POLAR ELECTRODE AND BATTERY CONTAINING SAME | MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | 72d |
| 16294383 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING POROUS PARTICULATES OF GRAPHENE SHELL-PROTECTED ALKALI METAL, ELECTRODES, AND ALKALI METAL BATTERY | MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | 72d |
| 16397284 | EXPANDED GRAPHITE-ENHANCED VAPOR-BASED HEAT TRANSFER DEVICE AND PRODUCTION PROCESS | JONES, GORDON A | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16380341 | CONDUCTING POLYMER NETWORK-ENABLED PARTICULATES OF ANODE ACTIVE MATERIAL PARTICLES FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES | THOMAS, BRENT C | 53d overdue |
| 15952532 | ALKALI METAL-SELENIUM SECONDARY BATTERY CONTAINING A CATHODE OF PROTECTED SELENIUM | THOMAS, BRENT C | 42d overdue |
| 16288968 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING PARTICULATES OF GRAPHENE/CARBON-ENCAPSULATED ALKALI METAL, ELECTRODES, AND ALKALI METAL BATTERY | MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | 18d overdue |
| 16120875 | METHOD OF IMPROVING ANODE STABILITY IN A LITHIUM METAL SECONDARY BATTERY | SMITH, JEREMIAH R | 19d |
| 15391379 | Process for Flexible and Shape-Conformal Cable-Shape Alkali Metal-Sulfur Batteries | ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | 33d |
| 16580334 | PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR GRAPHENE-ENABLED BI-POLAR ELECTRODE AND BATTERY CONTAINING SAME | MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | 72d |
| 16294383 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING POROUS PARTICULATES OF GRAPHENE SHELL-PROTECTED ALKALI METAL, ELECTRODES, AND ALKALI METAL BATTERY | MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | 72d |
| 16513090 | FAST-CHARGING BATTERY AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME | KLINE, SYDNEY LYNN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1718 | 3 |
| 1724 | 3 |
| 1729 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| 1751 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16580334 | PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR GRAPHENE-ENABLED BI-POLAR ELECTRODE AND BATTERY CONTAINING SAME | MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | 1718 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 72d | Pending | Sep 24, 2019 |
| 16513090 | FAST-CHARGING BATTERY AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME | KLINE, SYDNEY LYNN | 1729 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2019 |
| 16411645 | CONDUCTING POLYMER NETWORK-BASED CATHODE-PROTECTING LAYER FOR LITHIUM METAL SECONDARY BATTERY | LYNCH, VICTORIA HOM | 1724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | May 14, 2019 |
| 16397284 | EXPANDED GRAPHITE-ENHANCED VAPOR-BASED HEAT TRANSFER DEVICE AND PRODUCTION PROCESS | JONES, GORDON A | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2019 |
| 16380341 | CONDUCTING POLYMER NETWORK-ENABLED PARTICULATES OF ANODE ACTIVE MATERIAL PARTICLES FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES | THOMAS, BRENT C | 1724 | §103 | Final Rejection | 53d overdue | Pending | Apr 10, 2019 |
| 16294383 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING POROUS PARTICULATES OF GRAPHENE SHELL-PROTECTED ALKALI METAL, ELECTRODES, AND ALKALI METAL BATTERY | MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | 1718 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | 72d | Pending | Mar 06, 2019 |
| 16288949 | PARTICULATES OF GRAPHENE/CARBON-ENCAPSULATED ALKALI METAL, ELECTRODES, AND ALKALI METAL BATTERY | DOMONE, CHRISTOPHER P | 1725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2019 |
| 16288968 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING PARTICULATES OF GRAPHENE/CARBON-ENCAPSULATED ALKALI METAL, ELECTRODES, AND ALKALI METAL BATTERY | MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | 1718 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2019 |
| 16246896 | GRAPHENE/SILICON NANOWIRE HYBRID MATERIAL FOR A LITHIUM-ION BATTERY | CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG | 1751 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2019 |
| 16120875 | METHOD OF IMPROVING ANODE STABILITY IN A LITHIUM METAL SECONDARY BATTERY | SMITH, JEREMIAH R | 1723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Sep 04, 2018 |
| 15952532 | ALKALI METAL-SELENIUM SECONDARY BATTERY CONTAINING A CATHODE OF PROTECTED SELENIUM | THOMAS, BRENT C | 1724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Apr 13, 2018 |
| 15391379 | Process for Flexible and Shape-Conformal Cable-Shape Alkali Metal-Sulfur Batteries | ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | 1727 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Dec 27, 2016 |
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Start Free TrialNanotek Instruments Inc. has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 9 examiners.
Christina D Mcclure has the most, with 3 of Nanotek Instruments Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
