Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
BP plc has 5 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. Each action is associated with a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, with 5 of each recorded. The current docket therefore reflects separate examination settings rather than repeated assignments.
REID, MICHAEL ROBERT is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Application-level review is the natural management approach because no examiner or art-unit concentration is reported.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (40%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 1 | 79.0% | +19.2% |
| PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 1 | 78.7% | +11.4% |
| LUO, JAMMY NMN | 1 | — | — |
| WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 1 | 49.5% | +27.4% |
| GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1 | 35.0% | +10.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17245822 | MICROBIOME BASED SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND CONTROLLING INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 1d overdue |
| 18573647 | REMOVAL OF ORGANIC CHLORIDES FROM RENEWABLE FEEDSTOCKS | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | — |
| 17986643 | ANALYZING GENETIC MATERIAL OF MICROORGANISMS TO DETERMINE THE MOVEMENT OF CARBON-BASED GAS | LUO, JAMMY NMN | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17245822 | MICROBIOME BASED SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND CONTROLLING INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 1d overdue |
| 19103104 | CHOKE AND CONTROL VALVES | REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | — |
| 18573647 | REMOVAL OF ORGANIC CHLORIDES FROM RENEWABLE FEEDSTOCKS | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | — |
| 17768444 | LOW SALINITY INJECTION WATER COMPOSITION AND GENERATION FOR ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| 1686 | 1 |
| 1687 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19103104 | CHOKE AND CONTROL VALVES | REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 18573647 | REMOVAL OF ORGANIC CHLORIDES FROM RENEWABLE FEEDSTOCKS | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 1692 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 17986643 | ANALYZING GENETIC MATERIAL OF MICROORGANISMS TO DETERMINE THE MOVEMENT OF CARBON-BASED GAS | LUO, JAMMY NMN | 1686 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2022 |
| 17245822 | MICROBIOME BASED SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND CONTROLLING INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 1687 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Apr 30, 2021 |
| 17768444 | LOW SALINITY INJECTION WATER COMPOSITION AND GENERATION FOR ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1777 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialBP plc has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Michael Robert Reid has the most, with 1 of BP plc's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
