Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
BJ Energy Solutions, LLC has 8 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The portfolio involves 7 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. The examiner count is close to the pending-action count, while the smaller art-unit count indicates repeated examination within some technical units.
WOOD, DOUGLAS S is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That examiner therefore has more than one matter in the docket, but the remaining actions are distributed among other examiners. Counsel should coordinate positions across shared art units while maintaining a focused response plan for the two matters before WOOD.
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.
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.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (12%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 2 | 78.2% | +11.6% |
| HARCOURT, BRAD | 1 | 84.3% | +5.6% |
| DOYLE, BENJAMIN C | 1 | 68.3% | +40.2% |
| FREAY, CHARLES GRANT | 1 | 77.0% | +30.3% |
| KANG, EDWIN G | 1 | 64.1% | +66.6% |
| NG, HENRY | 1 | 62.9% | +53.2% |
| ORLANDO, AMBER ROSE | 1 | 64.0% | +28.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19046809 | FLUID END ASSEMBLY | DOYLE, BENJAMIN C | 33d |
| 19205841 | STAGE PROFILES FOR OPERATIONS OF HYDRAULIC SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | HARCOURT, BRAD | 36d |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18945139 | FUEL, COMMUNICATIONS, AND POWER CONNECTION SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 253d overdue |
| 18583488 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF UTILIZATION OF A HYDRAULIC FRACTURING UNIT PROFILE TO OPERATE HYDRAULIC FRACTURING UNITS | FREAY, CHARLES GRANT | 28d |
| 19046809 | FLUID END ASSEMBLY | DOYLE, BENJAMIN C | 33d |
| 18523685 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING FUEL TO GAS TURBINE ENGINES | NG, HENRY | 54d |
| 19171058 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO OPERATE HYDRAULIC FRACTURING UNITS USING AUTOMATIC FLOW RATE AND/OR PRESSURE CONTROL | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | — |
| 18396438 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS UTILIZING TURBINE COMPRESSOR DISCHARGE FOR HYDROSTATIC MANIFOLD PURGE | KANG, EDWIN G | — |
| 18210282 | MOBILE GAS TURBINE INLET AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | ORLANDO, AMBER ROSE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3672 | 2 |
| 3746 | 2 |
| 3741 | 2 |
| 3674 | 1 |
| 1700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19205841 | STAGE PROFILES FOR OPERATIONS OF HYDRAULIC SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | HARCOURT, BRAD | 3674 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19171058 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO OPERATE HYDRAULIC FRACTURING UNITS USING AUTOMATIC FLOW RATE AND/OR PRESSURE CONTROL | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 3672 | §102Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 19046809 | FLUID END ASSEMBLY | DOYLE, BENJAMIN C | 3746 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 18945139 | FUEL, COMMUNICATIONS, AND POWER CONNECTION SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 3672 | Other | Non-Final OA | 253d overdue | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18583488 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF UTILIZATION OF A HYDRAULIC FRACTURING UNIT PROFILE TO OPERATE HYDRAULIC FRACTURING UNITS | FREAY, CHARLES GRANT | 3746 | §112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
| 18396438 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS UTILIZING TURBINE COMPRESSOR DISCHARGE FOR HYDROSTATIC MANIFOLD PURGE | KANG, EDWIN G | 3741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2023 |
| 18523685 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING FUEL TO GAS TURBINE ENGINES | NG, HENRY | 3741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18210282 | MOBILE GAS TURBINE INLET AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | ORLANDO, AMBER ROSE | 1700 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBJ Energy Solutions, LLC has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 7 examiners.
Douglas S Wood has the most, with 2 of BJ Energy Solutions, LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
