Prosecution Insights
Last updated: September 19, 2026

BP plc

12 pending office actions • 9 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

9
Hard (75%)
3
Medium (25%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other4 (33%)
§103 only3 (25%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (42%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

5
Life Sciences
42% of docket
2
Information Tech
17% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
8% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
17% of docket
2
Business / Other
17% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WOITACH, JOSEPH T 2 49.9% +28.3%
REID, MICHAEL ROBERT 1 79.0% +19.6%
BREIER, KRYSTINE E 1 82.2% +8.3%
KNOX, KALERIA 1 68.1% +25.4%
PAGANO, ALEXANDER R 1 78.8% +11.1%
NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE 1 70.6% +10.0%
LUO, JAMMY NMN 1 — —
MIRABITO, MICHAEL PAUL 1 36.4% +2.8%
MONTES, NARCISO EDUARDO 1 57.1% +0.0%
IANNUZO, NATALIE NMN 1 12.5% +71.4%

Hard Cases (9)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17613898 GLUCONATE DEHYDRATASE ENZYMES AND RECOMBINANT CELLS IANNUZO, NATALIE NMN 24d overdue
17245822 MICROBIOME BASED SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND CONTROLLING INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS WOITACH, JOSEPH T 1d overdue
17196480 Microbiome Based Systems, Apparatus and Methods for the Exploration and Production of Hydrocarbons WOITACH, JOSEPH T 34d
18760686 Constrained Simultaneous Source Shooting BREIER, KRYSTINE E 41d
18604308 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENTLY PERFORMING STOCHASTIC INVERSION METHODS IN SEISMIC EXPLORATION APPLICATIONS KNOX, KALERIA —
18573647 REMOVAL OF ORGANIC CHLORIDES FROM RENEWABLE FEEDSTOCKS PAGANO, ALEXANDER R —
18394283 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING UNCERTAINTY OF A VELOCITY MODEL OF A SUBSURFACE REGION NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE —
17986643 ANALYZING GENETIC MATERIAL OF MICROORGANISMS TO DETERMINE THE MOVEMENT OF CARBON-BASED GAS LUO, JAMMY NMN —

Interview Candidates (7)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17613898 GLUCONATE DEHYDRATASE ENZYMES AND RECOMBINANT CELLS IANNUZO, NATALIE NMN 24d overdue
17245822 MICROBIOME BASED SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND CONTROLLING INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS WOITACH, JOSEPH T 1d overdue
17196480 Microbiome Based Systems, Apparatus and Methods for the Exploration and Production of Hydrocarbons WOITACH, JOSEPH T 34d
19103104 CHOKE AND CONTROL VALVES REID, MICHAEL ROBERT —
18604308 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENTLY PERFORMING STOCHASTIC INVERSION METHODS IN SEISMIC EXPLORATION APPLICATIONS KNOX, KALERIA —
18573647 REMOVAL OF ORGANIC CHLORIDES FROM RENEWABLE FEEDSTOCKS PAGANO, ALEXANDER R —
18394283 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING UNCERTAINTY OF A VELOCITY MODEL OF A SUBSURFACE REGION NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1687 2
3753 1
3645 1
2857 1
1686 1
2187 1
2189 1
1653 1
1777 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19103104 CHOKE AND CONTROL VALVES REID, MICHAEL ROBERT 3753 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 11, 2025
18760686 Constrained Simultaneous Source Shooting BREIER, KRYSTINE E 3645 §102§103 Final Rejection 41d Pending Jul 01, 2024
18604308 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENTLY PERFORMING STOCHASTIC INVERSION METHODS IN SEISMIC EXPLORATION APPLICATIONS KNOX, KALERIA — §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 13, 2024
18573647 REMOVAL OF ORGANIC CHLORIDES FROM RENEWABLE FEEDSTOCKS PAGANO, ALEXANDER R — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 22, 2023
18394283 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING UNCERTAINTY OF A VELOCITY MODEL OF A SUBSURFACE REGION NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE 2857 §101§103 Final Rejection — 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
17954452 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CALIBRATING WELL-COMPLETION TECHNIQUES MIRABITO, MICHAEL PAUL 2187 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 28, 2022
17929819 Method and Apparatus for Performing Wavefield Predictions By Using Wavefront Estimations MONTES, NARCISO EDUARDO 2189 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 06, 2022
17613898 GLUCONATE DEHYDRATASE ENZYMES AND RECOMBINANT CELLS IANNUZO, NATALIE NMN 1653 §103§112 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Nov 23, 2021
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
17196480 Microbiome Based Systems, Apparatus and Methods for the Exploration and Production of Hydrocarbons WOITACH, JOSEPH T 1687 §102§103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Mar 09, 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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