Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Devon Energy Corporation has 3 pending office actions in Communications. The matters are assigned to 3 examiners and 3 art units, so each pending matter has a distinct examination setting.
PERLMAN, DAVID S is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The current record shows no larger examiner concentration, making separate matter review the appropriate prosecution approach.
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 only | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PERLMAN, DAVID S | 1 | 81.1% | +12.3% |
| PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 1 | 69.0% | +22.0% |
| EL-BATHY, MOHAMED N | 1 | 28.8% | +31.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19087056 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR OBJECT DETECTION AND ANALYSIS OF AN IMAGE | PERLMAN, DAVID S | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18527272 | System and Method for Calculating Flare Volumes | EL-BATHY, MOHAMED N | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18822189 | Zero Emission Displacer-Based Liquid Level Control | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 71d overdue |
| 19087056 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR OBJECT DETECTION AND ANALYSIS OF AN IMAGE | PERLMAN, DAVID S | — |
| 18527272 | System and Method for Calculating Flare Volumes | EL-BATHY, MOHAMED N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2673 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19087056 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR OBJECT DETECTION AND ANALYSIS OF AN IMAGE | PERLMAN, DAVID S | 2673 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 18822189 | Zero Emission Displacer-Based Liquid Level Control | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d overdue | Pending | Aug 31, 2024 |
| 18527272 | System and Method for Calculating Flare Volumes | EL-BATHY, MOHAMED N | 3624 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialDevon Energy Corporation has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
David S Perlman has the most, with 1 of Devon Energy Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
