Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
National Engineering Research Center Of Advanced Energy Storage Materials (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This active case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, BARBEE, MANUEL L, who is also identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The prosecution is contained within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus for the company's current patenting activity.
The presence of 1 pending office action across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a streamlined prosecution profile. Practitioners should note that the outcome for this portfolio depends on the interaction with BARBEE, MANUEL L within that single art unit. Because there are no other pending matters, the company's current experience in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics is limited to this relationship with the examiner.
With 1 pending office action, the center does not currently face the complexity of managing multiple examiners or art units. The 1 distinct examiner, BARBEE, MANUEL L, handles the entirety of the pending workload. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit ensures that the technical arguments remain focused on the examination standards relevant to the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERRESFORD, JORDAN ELIZABETH | 1 | 68.1% | +6.1% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1727 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18737639 | APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING AND RECYCLING METAL ELEMENTS IN CATHODE MATERIALS OF LITHIUM BATTERIES | BERRESFORD, JORDAN ELIZABETH | 1727 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNational Engineering Research Center Of Advanced Energy Storage Materials (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jordan Elizabeth Berresford has the most, with 1 of National Engineering Research Center Of Advanced Energy Storage Materials (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
