Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sunergy maintains a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Currently, the company has 1 pending office action. This activity is confined to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, representing a highly concentrated area of examination. Such a focus suggests that the company's intellectual property strategy is currently centered on a specific technical niche within the broader Chemistry & Materials field.
BERRESFORD, JORDAN ELIZABETH is the busiest examiner for Sunergy, with 1 pending office action. Because the total count of pending office actions is 1, BERRESFORD, JORDAN ELIZABETH oversees the 1 pending office action currently active for the portfolio. This highlights the importance of the perspective of this 1 distinct examiner on the company's chemistry and materials technology. For a practitioner, this implies that understanding the historical allowance rates and preferences of BERRESFORD, JORDAN ELIZABETH is critical for predicting success.
The presence of only the 1 distinct art unit further reinforces the specialized nature of the company's current filings. With the pending office action as the only active matter, the company's immediate legal focus is streamlined. This lack of diversity in examiners and art units simplifies the management of the portfolio but also increases the impact of any single decision made by the assigned examiner within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18279341 | Zinc - Manganese Dioxide - Nickel Hydroxide Secondary Electrochemical Generator | BERRESFORD, JORDAN ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1727 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18279341 | Zinc - Manganese Dioxide - Nickel Hydroxide Secondary Electrochemical Generator | BERRESFORD, JORDAN ELIZABETH | 1727 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSunergy 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 Sunergy's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
