Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC

8 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

3
Hard (38%)
5
Medium (62%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (62%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (38%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

3
Life Sciences
38% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
12% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
50% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S 1 62.3% +28.7%
SAYRE, JAMES G 1 84.0% +12.8%
PATEL, NEEL G 1 61.8% +35.1%
KEELING, ALEXANDER W 1 56.4% +37.7%
TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J 1 69.9% +32.3%
MUSSER, BARBARA J 1 70.9% +27.3%
LUK, VANESSA TIBAY 1 54.1% +26.6%
DUNLAP, JONATHAN M 1 76.1% +17.1%

Hard Cases (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18852868 FRAME FOR USE SUBSEA SAYRE, JAMES G 85d overdue
17309687 PIPELINE DEFECT MONITORING DUNLAP, JONATHAN M 27d
18334282 MOUNTING AND CATHODIC PROTECTION KEELING, ALEXANDER W

Interview Candidates (8)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18852868 FRAME FOR USE SUBSEA SAYRE, JAMES G 85d overdue
18853652 PUMP SYSTEM BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S 71d overdue
18040109 CLAMP AND CLAMPING TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J 36d overdue
17755753 COMPOSITE TAPE SPLICING MUSSER, BARBARA J 14d
17309687 PIPELINE DEFECT MONITORING DUNLAP, JONATHAN M 27d
18547108 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HYDRATE PRODUCTION PATEL, NEEL G
18334282 MOUNTING AND CATHODIC PROTECTION KEELING, ALEXANDER W
17309928 STEEL WIRE LUK, VANESSA TIBAY

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3746 1
3679 1
3676 1
1795 1
3678 1
1746 1
1733 1
2855 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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
18547108 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HYDRATE PRODUCTION PATEL, NEEL G 3676 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 18, 2023
18334282 MOUNTING AND CATHODIC PROTECTION KEELING, ALEXANDER W 1795 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 13, 2023
18040109 CLAMP AND CLAMPING TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J 3678 §103 Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2023
17755753 COMPOSITE TAPE SPLICING MUSSER, BARBARA J 1746 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending May 06, 2022
17309928 STEEL WIRE LUK, VANESSA TIBAY 1733 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 30, 2021
17309687 PIPELINE DEFECT MONITORING DUNLAP, JONATHAN M 2855 §102§103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Jun 15, 2021

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