Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Institut National De Recherche Pour L'Agriculture L'Alimentation Et L'Environnement currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, which indicates that each case is receiving an individual review from a different USPTO professional. This alignment suggests that the workload is not concentrated under a single person, allowing for a variety of perspectives during the examination process. The presence of 4 distinct art units further confirms that the subject matter spans multiple specialized groups within the broader technology sector.
MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, though she is only responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the total count of 4 pending office actions is split across several departments, practitioners should prepare for varied prosecution timelines and procedural requirements. The decentralized nature of these 4 distinct art units means that the company must navigate the specific standards of multiple USPTO divisions simultaneously. This distribution suggests a broad technical scope for the current filings, as no single examiner or art unit dominates the active prosecution landscape. Practitioners can leverage this lack of concentration to develop independent strategies for each matter without the risk of a single examiner's bias affecting the entire portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | 1 | 64.1% | +18.0% |
| SMITH, JENNIFER A | 1 | 60.9% | +26.9% |
| MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | 1 | 15.7% | +24.3% |
| ABBAS, ABDULRAHMAN MUSTAFA | 1 | 51.6% | +29.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18563491 | OPTIMISED BIO-ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTOR, IN PARTICULAR FOR DEGRADATION OF THE CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND OF AN EFFLUENT | MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | — |
| 18031032 | Agricultural product, and preparation method | SMITH, JENNIFER A | — |
| 17910764 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING COMPOUNDS OF INTEREST FROM AT LEAST ONE MINERALIZED CONNECTIVE TISSUE, AND COMPOUNDS OF INTEREST DERIVED FROM THIS PRODUCTION PROCESS | MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17435520 | COMPOSITION FOR USE IN THE PREVENTION AND/OR TREATMENT OF DYSBIOSIS | ABBAS, ABDULRAHMAN MUSTAFA | 5d overdue |
| 18563491 | OPTIMISED BIO-ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTOR, IN PARTICULAR FOR DEGRADATION OF THE CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND OF AN EFFLUENT | MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | — |
| 18031032 | Agricultural product, and preparation method | SMITH, JENNIFER A | — |
| 17910764 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING COMPOUNDS OF INTEREST FROM AT LEAST ONE MINERALIZED CONNECTIVE TISSUE, AND COMPOUNDS OF INTEREST DERIVED FROM THIS PRODUCTION PROCESS | MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1773 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18563491 | OPTIMISED BIO-ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTOR, IN PARTICULAR FOR DEGRADATION OF THE CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND OF AN EFFLUENT | MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | 1773 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18031032 | Agricultural product, and preparation method | SMITH, JENNIFER A | 1731 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2023 |
| 17910764 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING COMPOUNDS OF INTEREST FROM AT LEAST ONE MINERALIZED CONNECTIVE TISSUE, AND COMPOUNDS OF INTEREST DERIVED FROM THIS PRODUCTION PROCESS | MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | 1793 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2022 |
| 17435520 | COMPOSITION FOR USE IN THE PREVENTION AND/OR TREATMENT OF DYSBIOSIS | ABBAS, ABDULRAHMAN MUSTAFA | 1612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Sep 01, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialInstitut National De Recherche Pour L'Agriculture L'Alimentation Et L'Environnement has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Bernadette Karen Mcgann has the most, with 1 of Institut National De Recherche Pour L'Agriculture L'Alimentation Et L'Environnement's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
