Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Downing Wellhead Equipment LLC operates within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area, where it currently has 2 pending office actions. These 2 pending office actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, indicating that each case is being handled by a different individual. This distribution requires the company to manage multiple examiner perspectives within its current prosecution strategy.
The portfolio is spread across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's innovations touch upon different technical sub-specialties within the mechanical sector. WRIGHT, GIOVANNA COLLINS is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 busiest examiner pending office action represents half of the total pending workload for the company.
For practitioners, the presence of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units for only two pending actions indicates a diverse prosecution environment. Each case requires a unique approach tailored to the specific art unit and examiner involved. Consistency across the portfolio is important, as the distinct examiners may have different interpretations of the technical disclosures in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WRIGHT, GIOVANNA COLLINS | 1 | 85.9% | +9.6% |
| GARDNER, NICOLE | 1 | 69.1% | +14.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19439647 | OIL AND GAS OPERATIONS WITH VALVE OPERABLY COUPLED TO WELLHEAD | WRIGHT, GIOVANNA COLLINS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18814952 | FRACTURING PUMP SYSTEM | GARDNER, NICOLE | 36d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18814952 | FRACTURING PUMP SYSTEM | GARDNER, NICOLE | 36d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3672 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19439647 | OIL AND GAS OPERATIONS WITH VALVE OPERABLY COUPLED TO WELLHEAD | WRIGHT, GIOVANNA COLLINS | 3672 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2026 |
| 18814952 | FRACTURING PUMP SYSTEM | GARDNER, NICOLE | 3753 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
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