Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
BJ Energy Solutions, LLC has 11 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 9 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units. This indicates a broad prosecution footprint with multiple points of contact within the USPTO. The variety of examiners and art units suggests that the company's mechanical engineering innovations are being reviewed by several different specialized groups.
BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 2 busiest examiner pending actions. While there are 11 pending office actions in total, the workload is spread relatively thin across the 9 distinct examiners. The presence of 6 distinct art units suggests that the company's technology is being evaluated in multiple contexts. This distribution requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to the different standards and practices of multiple reviewers across separate units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 (9%) |
| §103 only | 6 (55%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (18%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (9%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | 2 | 62.4% | +28.9% |
| WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 2 | 78.2% | +11.6% |
| HARCOURT, BRAD | 1 | 84.2% | +5.3% |
| DOYLE, BENJAMIN C | 1 | 68.4% | +39.6% |
| KANG, EDWIN G | 1 | 64.3% | +66.9% |
| NG, HENRY | 1 | 64.1% | +52.2% |
| LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN | 1 | 73.6% | +21.9% |
| JARIWALA, CHIRAG | 1 | 62.3% | +27.3% |
| ORLANDO, AMBER ROSE | 1 | 63.9% | +28.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19046809 | FLUID END ASSEMBLY | DOYLE, BENJAMIN C | 33d |
| 19205841 | STAGE PROFILES FOR OPERATIONS OF HYDRAULIC SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | HARCOURT, BRAD | 36d |
| 18517822 | TURBINE ENGINE EXHAUST DUCT SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR NOISE DAMPENING AND ATTENUATION | LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18945139 | FUEL, COMMUNICATIONS, AND POWER CONNECTION SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 253d overdue |
| 19193832 | HYDRAULIC FRACTURING PUMPS TO ENHANCE FLOW OF FRACTURING FLUID INTO WELLHEADS AND RELATED METHODS | BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | 30d |
| 19046809 | FLUID END ASSEMBLY | DOYLE, BENJAMIN C | 33d |
| 18463950 | POWER END FRAME ASSEMBLY | JARIWALA, CHIRAG | 36d |
| 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 | — |
| 18517822 | TURBINE ENGINE EXHAUST DUCT SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR NOISE DAMPENING AND ATTENUATION | LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 4 |
| 3672 | 2 |
| 3741 | 2 |
| 3674 | 1 |
| 2837 | 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 |
| 19193832 | HYDRAULIC FRACTURING PUMPS TO ENHANCE FLOW OF FRACTURING FLUID INTO WELLHEADS AND RELATED METHODS | BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | 3746 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Apr 29, 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 |
| 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 |
| 18517822 | TURBINE ENGINE EXHAUST DUCT SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR NOISE DAMPENING AND ATTENUATION | LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN | 2837 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18487865 | HYDRAULIC FRACTURING PUMPS TO ENHANCE FLOW OF FRACTURING FLUID INTO WELLHEADS AND RELATED METHODS | BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | 3746 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
| 18463950 | POWER END FRAME ASSEMBLY | JARIWALA, CHIRAG | 3746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18210282 | MOBILE GAS TURBINE INLET AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | ORLANDO, AMBER ROSE | 1700 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial