Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Borehole Seismic LLC is active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area, where it currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, showing that each case is being reviewed by a different individual. The company's work is distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a varied technical focus within its field.
The busiest examiner for Borehole Seismic LLC is HARCOURT, BRAD, who is handling 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for exactly one action. HARCOURT, BRAD is the busiest examiner pending 1 action, representing half of the company's current active workload.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units for 2 pending office actions suggests that the company's innovations in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems are technically diverse. With 2 distinct examiners, the company must navigate different examiner styles and art unit standards. This data reflects a decentralized but technically specific prosecution profile for the 2 pending office actions across the 2 distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARCOURT, BRAD | 1 | 84.2% | +5.3% |
| N'DURE, AMIE MERCEDES | 1 | 78.2% | +15.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19088913 | Non-fracturing Restimulation of Unconventional Hydrocarbon Containing Formations to Enhance Production | HARCOURT, BRAD | 32d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18413968 | High Resolution Composite Seismic Imaging, Systems and Methods | N'DURE, AMIE MERCEDES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3674 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19088913 | Non-fracturing Restimulation of Unconventional Hydrocarbon Containing Formations to Enhance Production | HARCOURT, BRAD | 3674 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 18413968 | High Resolution Composite Seismic Imaging, Systems and Methods | N'DURE, AMIE MERCEDES | 3645 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
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