Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
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
Aquafil S P A is managing 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The company's prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's current prosecution efforts are localized within a specific technical niche and handled by a single point of contact at the office. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit indicates a focused subject matter for the current filings, which may lead to a more consistent examination experience for the 1 pending office action.
KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. This single action constitutes the total pending volume for the company at this time. With 1 distinct examiner managing the workload, the prosecution process remains highly centralized. The company's activity within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector is currently limited to this specific interaction, as evidenced by the 1 pending office action and the involvement of only 1 distinct examiner. This streamlined approach minimizes the administrative complexity of managing the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE | 1 | 31.8% | +23.7% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18560016 | PROCESS FOR DEPOLYMERIZING POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE BY GLYCOLYSIS | KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18560016 | PROCESS FOR DEPOLYMERIZING POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE BY GLYCOLYSIS | KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE | 1692 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAquafil S P A has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Yolanda Lynnette Kelly-O'Neill has the most, with 1 of Aquafil S P A's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
