Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zomedica Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, so the available workload is distributed across separate examination assignments.
HANDY, DWAYNE K is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner or art unit has a larger recorded concentration in this data. Counsel can therefore focus on the individual prosecution histories and the particular requirements of each assigned examination group.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HANDY, DWAYNE K | 1 | 62.7% | +25.0% |
| KITT, STEPHEN A | 1 | 54.7% | +38.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19304029 | SLIDE PREPARATION METHODS AND APPARATUS | HANDY, DWAYNE K | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17990284 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SLIDE TREATMENT PROCESSING | KITT, STEPHEN A | 35d |
| 19304029 | SLIDE PREPARATION METHODS AND APPARATUS | HANDY, DWAYNE K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19304029 | SLIDE PREPARATION METHODS AND APPARATUS | HANDY, DWAYNE K | 1798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2025 |
| 17990284 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SLIDE TREATMENT PROCESSING | KITT, STEPHEN A | 1717 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Nov 18, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialZomedica Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Dwayne K Handy has the most, with 1 of Zomedica Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
