Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC has 9 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters are assigned to 9 examiners across 8 art units, reflecting a wide distribution of prosecution activity. This structure increases the value of a coordinated review of claim terminology, disclosure positions, and response timing across the portfolio.
GAY, JENNIFER HAWKINS is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Since each examiner has a limited recorded share, counsel should not infer a uniform examination approach from one file. Instead, the relevant baseline for comparison is the treatment of related applications within their respective art units.
The portfolio’s mechanical and transportation classification may encompass different technical centers and prior-art fields. Practitioners should preserve consistent descriptions of shared technology while tailoring novelty and obviousness arguments to the references cited in each action. A matter-by-matter docket review is also important when prosecution is distributed so broadly.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 5 (56%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GAY, JENNIFER HAWKINS | 1 | 85.2% | +8.6% |
| WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 1 | 78.2% | +11.6% |
| WRIGHT, GIOVANNA COLLINS | 1 | 86.0% | +9.6% |
| BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 62.6% | +29.0% |
| SAYRE, JAMES G | 1 | 84.0% | +12.9% |
| HARCOURT, BRAD | 1 | 84.3% | +5.6% |
| PATEL, NEEL G | 1 | 62.1% | +34.6% |
| TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 1 | 70.0% | +31.7% |
| DUNLAP, JONATHAN M | 1 | 76.1% | +16.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18680918 | FULLY INTEGRATED FLOW CONTROL MODULE | HARCOURT, BRAD | 24d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18852868 | FRAME FOR USE SUBSEA | SAYRE, JAMES G | 85d overdue |
| 19110716 | SUBSEA TOOL ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF OPERATING A SUBSEA TOOL | GAY, JENNIFER HAWKINS | 25d overdue |
| 18861422 | TUBING HANGER WITH SLEEVED ANNULUS ISOLATION DEVICE AND DYNAMIC METAL SEAL ELEMENTS | WRIGHT, GIOVANNA COLLINS | 19d overdue |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18852868 | FRAME FOR USE SUBSEA | SAYRE, JAMES G | 85d overdue |
| 18853652 | PUMP SYSTEM | BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | 71d overdue |
| 18880988 | LIFTING TOOL | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 56d overdue |
| 18040109 | CLAMP AND CLAMPING | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 36d overdue |
| 17309687 | PIPELINE DEFECT MONITORING | DUNLAP, JONATHAN M | 27d |
| 18547108 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HYDRATE PRODUCTION | PATEL, NEEL G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3672 | 2 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| 3674 | 1 |
| 3676 | 1 |
| 3678 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19110716 | SUBSEA TOOL ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF OPERATING A SUBSEA TOOL | GAY, JENNIFER HAWKINS | 3619 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 18880988 | LIFTING TOOL | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 3672 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 56d overdue | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18861422 | TUBING HANGER WITH SLEEVED ANNULUS ISOLATION DEVICE AND DYNAMIC METAL SEAL ELEMENTS | WRIGHT, GIOVANNA COLLINS | 3672 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18853652 | PUMP SYSTEM | BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | 3746 | §103 | Final Rejection | 71d overdue | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18852868 | FRAME FOR USE SUBSEA | SAYRE, JAMES G | 3679 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 85d overdue | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18680918 | FULLY INTEGRATED FLOW CONTROL MODULE | HARCOURT, BRAD | 3674 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 24d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18547108 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HYDRATE PRODUCTION | PATEL, NEEL G | 3676 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2023 |
| 18040109 | CLAMP AND CLAMPING | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 3678 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Jan 31, 2023 |
| 17309687 | PIPELINE DEFECT MONITORING | DUNLAP, JONATHAN M | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jun 15, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialBAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 9 examiners.
Jennifer Hawkins Gay has the most, with 1 of BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
