Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
BEIJING RESEARCH CENTER OF CNOOC (CHINA) CO., LTD. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The current activity indicates a focused prosecution phase for their mechanical and transportation-related intellectual property, allowing for a specialized legal approach.
GRAY, GEORGE STERLING is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding the 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution strategy is dependent on the specific feedback from this single examiner. This concentration simplifies the prosecution task but places importance on the outcome of this individual office action. For the applicant, success in this technology area hinges on addressing the concerns of this 1 examiner to move the pending matter toward a final disposition within the 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAY, GEORGE STERLING | 1 | 75.3% | +9.9% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3676 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18834844 | HYDRAULIC SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOWNHOLE SLEEVE HORIZON SELECTION AND OPENING CONTROL | GRAY, GEORGE STERLING | 3676 | §112 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
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