Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Equinor Energy AS currently faces 8 pending office actions across the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio shows a high degree of examiner diversity, with 7 distinct examiners assigned to these matters. This distribution suggests that the company's legal strategy must account for a wide variety of individual examiner preferences and styles.
The 8 pending office actions are spread across 5 distinct art units, indicating that the portfolio covers a broad range of technical sub-specialties within its primary technology area. FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F is identified as the busiest examiner, though they are only responsible for 2 busiest examiner pending actions. This relatively low concentration of work with the busiest examiner reinforces the observation that the portfolio is widely dispersed across the patent office's personnel and organizational structures.
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 (14%) |
| §103 only | 3 (43%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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% | +7.4% |
| RHODES-VIVOUR, TEMILADE S | 1 | 88.7% | +7.6% |
| CHRISTENSEN, DANIELLE M | 1 | 79.4% | +11.3% |
| ANDRISH, SEAN D | 1 | 71.5% | +32.1% |
| WLODARSKI, NICHOLAS NMN | 1 | 84.0% | +11.5% |
| 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 4 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 |
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 4 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 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3678 | 3 |
| 3745 | 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 | — | §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 |
| 18884916 | SUBSEA FOUNDATION | FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 3678 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18884884 | SUBSEA FOUNDATION | FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 3678 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Sep 13, 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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