Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dril-Quip Inc. has a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently shows 1 pending office action. This prosecution is taking place within 1 distinct art unit, pointing to a concentrated area of mechanical innovation for the firm. This focus indicates that the company's current intellectual property efforts are directed toward a specific technical solution within the mechanical systems landscape.
The 1 distinct examiner involved is RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER, who is also the busiest examiner. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the portfolio only has 1 distinct examiner, all current patent office feedback is channeled through this single examiner. This creates a simplified prosecution environment where the applicant can focus on the specific requirements of RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER. While this reduces the complexity of managing multiple examiners, it also means that the success of the current portfolio is dependent on the decisions made by this one official.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | 1 | 54.5% | +27.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17288997 | THREADED CONNECTOR HAVING METAL-TO-METAL SEAL | RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17288997 | THREADED CONNECTOR HAVING METAL-TO-METAL SEAL | RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | 3679 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialDril-Quip Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Alexander Tyler Rufrano has the most, with 1 of Dril-Quip Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
