So in the campaign that I am playing, reign of winter, we came across a fairly common type of spell scroll, the resist energy cold spell scroll.
Under normal circumstances, an alchemist would dedicate an amount of time to research said spell, based upon the spell level, so long as he has the tools to jot it down in his alchemist formula book, and of course, must make a respective spell check if he got all the calculations and algorithm's right...
HOWEVER! The main question that was brought about that I have pointed out and disputed with the GM until we get an official ruling on it is that after I had successfully researched it, I now have specifically Resist Energy Cold, rather than access to casting any variants of resist energy.
Have there been any cases similar to this? If so, what was dictated as the correct answer? If no similar circumstance has been answered, what would you say to this situation?
As far as I'm aware, pathfinder doesn't separate out the resist energy types as different spells. The type is determined upon casting. You should have received a Resist energy scroll, not a resist energy: cold scroll.
In general, Resist Energy is the spell, not Resist Energy X. However, I know for a fact that Reign of Winter has some odd items in it (playing in said AP myself). In this specific instance, you could very well have just Resist Energy Cold.