Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC currently has 8 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 8 actions are distributed across 8 distinct examiners and 8 distinct art units. This one-to-one ratio across the board indicates a highly fragmented prosecution landscape where every single pending matter is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different art unit.
The busiest examiner for the company is GAY, JENNIFER HAWKINS, who is handling 1 pending office action. Since there are 8 pending office actions and 8 distinct examiners, no single examiner has more than one case. This means the company cannot rely on a centralized strategy for a specific examiner or art unit, as the 8 distinct art units each represent a unique technical silo within the patent office.
For practitioners, this level of distribution across 8 distinct examiners and 8 distinct art units suggests that the portfolio covers a wide range of diverse technologies within the broader Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area. Each of the 8 pending office actions requires an independent approach tailored to the specific examiner and unit involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 | 85.1% | +8.6% |
| WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 1 | 78.2% | +11.6% |
| WRIGHT, GIOVANNA COLLINS | 1 | 85.9% | +9.6% |
| BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 62.4% | +28.9% |
| SAYRE, JAMES G | 1 | 84.0% | +12.9% |
| HARCOURT, BRAD | 1 | 84.2% | +5.3% |
| PATEL, NEEL G | 1 | 61.9% | +35.2% |
| TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 1 | 70.1% | +32.2% |
| LUK, VANESSA TIBAY | 1 | 54.4% | +26.3% |
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 |
| 18547108 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HYDRATE PRODUCTION | PATEL, NEEL G | — |
| 17309928 | STEEL WIRE | LUK, VANESSA TIBAY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3672 | 2 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| 3674 | 1 |
| 3676 | 1 |
| 3678 | 1 |
| 1733 | 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 |
| 17309928 | STEEL WIRE | LUK, VANESSA TIBAY | 1733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2021 |
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