Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Equinor Energy AS has 8 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are handled by 7 distinct examiners, indicating a high level of individual attention for each case. Only one examiner is handling more than a single action for this portfolio.
The workload is spread across 6 distinct art units, showing a diverse range of mechanical and transportation technologies. Fiorello, Benjamin F is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending actions under review. This means Fiorello is the only examiner managing more than one of the 8 pending office actions currently active for the company.
With 7 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, the portfolio is moderately distributed. The concentration of 2 actions with Fiorello, Benjamin F provides a small point of focus, but the other 6 actions are each managed by different examiners. Practitioners should note that the 8 pending office actions will likely follow 7 different prosecution trajectories based on examiner variability.
The strategy for Equinor Energy AS should involve a detailed review of the 6 distinct art units. Since Fiorello, Benjamin F handles 2 pending actions, their specific history is slightly more influential than the other examiners. However, the legal team must still prepare unique arguments for the remaining 6 actions to ensure success across the entire portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 2 | 73.9% | +7.5% |
| RHODES-VIVOUR, TEMILADE S | 1 | 88.7% | +7.6% |
| CHRISTENSEN, DANIELLE M | 1 | 79.4% | +11.3% |
| MARONEY, JENNA M | 1 | 64.6% | +20.1% |
| ANDRISH, SEAN D | 1 | 71.5% | +32.2% |
| WLODARSKI, NICHOLAS NMN | 1 | 84.1% | +11.7% |
| ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN | 1 | 46.9% | +31.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18881615 | SENSING WITHIN A SUBSEA ELECTRIC ARCHITECTURE IN A WIND FARM | RHODES-VIVOUR, TEMILADE S | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18292592 | SUBSEA CABLE BUNDLE INSTALLATION | ANDRISH, SEAN D | 14d |
| 18014575 | RESERVOIR FLUID PROPERTY ESTIMATION USING MUD-GAS DATA | WLODARSKI, NICHOLAS NMN | 14d |
| 18884884 | SUBSEA FOUNDATION | FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 35d |
| 18884916 | SUBSEA FOUNDATION | FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 42d |
| 18845533 | A METHOD OF STORING ETHANE | MARONEY, JENNA M | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18865203 | CONTROLLING DIFFUSION OF A WAKE GENERATED BY A WIND TURBINE | CHRISTENSEN, DANIELLE M | 9d overdue |
| 17609620 | SYSTEM FOR ACQUIRING SEISMIC DATA | ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN | 1d overdue |
| 18292592 | SUBSEA CABLE BUNDLE INSTALLATION | ANDRISH, SEAN D | 14d |
| 18014575 | RESERVOIR FLUID PROPERTY ESTIMATION USING MUD-GAS DATA | WLODARSKI, NICHOLAS NMN | 14d |
| 18845533 | A METHOD OF STORING ETHANE | MARONEY, JENNA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3678 | 3 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 3672 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18881615 | SENSING WITHIN A SUBSEA ELECTRIC ARCHITECTURE IN A WIND FARM | RHODES-VIVOUR, TEMILADE S | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18865203 | CONTROLLING DIFFUSION OF A WAKE GENERATED BY A WIND TURBINE | CHRISTENSEN, DANIELLE M | 3745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18884884 | SUBSEA FOUNDATION | FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 3678 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18884916 | SUBSEA FOUNDATION | FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 3678 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18845533 | A METHOD OF STORING ETHANE | MARONEY, JENNA M | 3763 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18292592 | SUBSEA CABLE BUNDLE INSTALLATION | ANDRISH, SEAN D | 3678 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18014575 | RESERVOIR FLUID PROPERTY ESTIMATION USING MUD-GAS DATA | WLODARSKI, NICHOLAS NMN | 3672 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jan 05, 2023 |
| 17609620 | SYSTEM FOR ACQUIRING SEISMIC DATA | ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Nov 08, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialEquinor Energy AS has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 7 examiners.
Benjamin F Fiorello has the most, with 2 of Equinor Energy AS's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
