Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Atomic Energy Of Canada Limited maintains 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This workload is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. Such a focused presence in the biotechnology sector suggests a specialized application of the company's technology within this 1 distinct art unit. The limited scope of this art unit indicates that the company's current filings are not spread across diverse scientific disciplines.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. This individual workload matches the total workload for the entire portfolio. Consequently, the prosecution strategy is currently dependent on the interactions with this 1 distinct examiner. The presence of only 1 distinct examiner implies that all current legal correspondence is centralized through a particular channel at the patent office. This concentration allows for a specific focus on the requirements of KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18560634 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SYNTHETIC HYDROCARBONS FROM BIOMASS | KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18560634 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SYNTHETIC HYDROCARBONS FROM BIOMASS | KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE | 1692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAtomic Energy Of Canada Limited 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 Atomic Energy Of Canada Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
