What types of patent applications must be reported to the Department of Energy (DOE)?

Applications for patents which appear to disclose, purport to disclose or do disclose inventions or discoveries relating to atomic energy must be reported to the Department of Energy, which will be given access to the applications.

As stated in 37 CFR 1.14(d), “Such reporting does not constitute a determination that the subject matter of each application so reported is in fact useful or is an invention or discovery, or that such application in fact discloses subject matter in categories specified by 42 U.S.C. 2181(c) and (d).”