Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
18 pending office actions • 10 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
British American Tobacco plc has 19 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 14 distinct examiners and 10 distinct art units, showing more repeated assignment within both categories than a one-to-one distribution would reflect. The smaller art-unit count also suggests that multiple matters share technical examination settings.
BELYAEV, YANA is the busiest examiner, with 5 pending matters. That examiner represents the clearest recorded concentration in the portfolio. Counsel may find value in reviewing responses and amendments across those matters for consistency, while maintaining separate strategies for the remaining examiner and art-unit assignments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (6%) |
| §103 only | 10 (56%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (28%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELYAEV, YANA | 5 | 58.3% | +31.5% |
| MARTIN, JOHN MITCHELL | 2 | 24.2% | +8.6% |
| GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 1 | 61.2% | +25.3% |
| CHU, KING M | 1 | 75.5% | +13.1% |
| CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | 1 | 62.4% | +39.1% |
| KHONG, BRIAN THAI-BINH | 1 | 66.7% | +37.2% |
| TRAN, SCOTT THANH BINH | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| SZEWCZYK, CYNTHIA | 1 | 73.7% | +10.1% |
| FAN, WEIHUA | 1 | 83.3% | +12.7% |
| MAYES, DIONNE WALLS | 1 | 64.3% | +27.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17995675 | METHOD | FAN, WEIHUA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18730077 | PACKAGES AND WRAPPER | CHU, KING M | 28d overdue |
| 15754818 | APPARATUS FOR HEATING SMOKABLE MATERIAL | BELYAEV, YANA | 3d overdue |
| 16755511 | AEROSOLIZABLE PRODUCT | BELYAEV, YANA | 6d |
| 19157639 | HINGED-LID PACK AND COLLATION OF HINGED-LID PACKS | GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | — |
| 18262786 | VAPING ARTICLE DESIGN SYSTEM AND METHOD | TRAN, SCOTT THANH BINH | — |
| 17928662 | A COMPONENT FOR A DELIVERY SYSTEM | MARTIN, JOHN MITCHELL | — |
| 17633954 | MOUTHPIECE FOR AN ARTICLE FOR USE IN AN AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM AND AN ARTICLE FOR USE IN AN AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM | MARTIN, JOHN MITCHELL | — |
| 17426139 | Apparatus and Method for Transferring Pods of a Consumable Unit for an Inhalation Device from a Storage Tray to a Machine Cassette of a Consumable Unit Manufacturing Device | EFTA, ALEX B | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18730077 | PACKAGES AND WRAPPER | CHU, KING M | 28d overdue |
| 16666508 | INHALATION DEVICE AND COMPONENT FOR AN INHALATION DEVICE | BELYAEV, YANA | 18d overdue |
| 16632566 | Tobacco constituent releasing components | BELYAEV, YANA | 4d overdue |
| 15754818 | APPARATUS FOR HEATING SMOKABLE MATERIAL | BELYAEV, YANA | 3d overdue |
| 16755511 | AEROSOLIZABLE PRODUCT | BELYAEV, YANA | 6d |
| 18006814 | MODULAR APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING A CONSUMABLE UNIT FOR AN INHALATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECONFIGURING SAID APPARATUS | SZEWCZYK, CYNTHIA | 8d |
| 18730181 | A PACKAGE | CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | 50d |
| 19157639 | HINGED-LID PACK AND COLLATION OF HINGED-LID PACKS | GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1755 | 8 |
| 3735 | 2 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| 2186 | 1 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| 1663 | 1 |
| 1700 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| 1747 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19157639 | HINGED-LID PACK AND COLLATION OF HINGED-LID PACKS | GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 3735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2025 |
| 18730077 | PACKAGES AND WRAPPER | CHU, KING M | 3735 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18730181 | A PACKAGE | CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | 3736 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 50d | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18525251 | APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AN INHALABLE MEDIUM | KHONG, BRIAN THAI-BINH | 3785 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18262786 | VAPING ARTICLE DESIGN SYSTEM AND METHOD | TRAN, SCOTT THANH BINH | 2186 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18006814 | MODULAR APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING A CONSUMABLE UNIT FOR AN INHALATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECONFIGURING SAID APPARATUS | SZEWCZYK, CYNTHIA | 1741 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Jan 25, 2023 |
| 17928662 | A COMPONENT FOR A DELIVERY SYSTEM | MARTIN, JOHN MITCHELL | 1755 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
| 17995675 | METHOD | FAN, WEIHUA | 1663 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2022 |
| 17782969 | DELIVERY SYSTEMS | MAYES, DIONNE WALLS | 1700 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2022 |
| 17633954 | MOUTHPIECE FOR AN ARTICLE FOR USE IN AN AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM AND AN ARTICLE FOR USE IN AN AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM | MARTIN, JOHN MITCHELL | 1755 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2022 |
| 17601644 | SMOKING ARTICLE | SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | 1755 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Oct 05, 2021 |
| 17426139 | Apparatus and Method for Transferring Pods of a Consumable Unit for an Inhalation Device from a Storage Tray to a Machine Cassette of a Consumable Unit Manufacturing Device | EFTA, ALEX B | 1745 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2021 |
| 16957983 | Material for Inclusion in a Smoking Article | BELYAEV, YANA | 1755 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2020 |
| 16755511 | AEROSOLIZABLE PRODUCT | BELYAEV, YANA | 1755 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Apr 10, 2020 |
| 16649726 | AEROSOL-GENERATING MATERIAL ROD SEGMENT | WILL, KATHERINE A | 1747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 23, 2020 |
| 16632566 | Tobacco constituent releasing components | BELYAEV, YANA | 1755 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 21, 2020 |
| 16666508 | INHALATION DEVICE AND COMPONENT FOR AN INHALATION DEVICE | BELYAEV, YANA | 1755 | §103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Oct 29, 2019 |
| 15754818 | APPARATUS FOR HEATING SMOKABLE MATERIAL | BELYAEV, YANA | 1755 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Feb 23, 2018 |
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Start Free TrialBritish American Tobacco plc has 18 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 10 art units and 13 examiners.
Yana Belyaev has the most, with 5 of British American Tobacco plc's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
