Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fervo Energy Company has 2 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners but 1 distinct art unit. RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter, so examination is divided by examiner within a common art-unit setting.
The shared art-unit context may support consistent treatment of semiconductor, circuit, and optical terminology across the responses. Counsel should nevertheless track examiner-specific positions because the data identifies 2 separate examination assignments. A coordinated claim strategy can reduce unnecessary divergence, while each response should address its own cited record, amendments, and technical evidence.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A | 1 | 81.0% | +12.1% |
| DINH, LYNDA | 1 | 73.9% | +28.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18659712 | COMPLETION AND WELL PLACEMENT OPTIMIZATION USING DISTRIBUTED FIBER OPTIC SENSING IN NEXT-GENERATION GEOTHERMAL PROJECTS | RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A | — |
| 18659679 | FIBER OPTICS ACOUSTIC STEERING FOR DIRECTIONAL DRILLING | DINH, LYNDA | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18659712 | COMPLETION AND WELL PLACEMENT OPTIMIZATION USING DISTRIBUTED FIBER OPTIC SENSING IN NEXT-GENERATION GEOTHERMAL PROJECTS | RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A | — |
| 18659679 | FIBER OPTICS ACOUSTIC STEERING FOR DIRECTIONAL DRILLING | DINH, LYNDA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18659712 | COMPLETION AND WELL PLACEMENT OPTIMIZATION USING DISTRIBUTED FIBER OPTIC SENSING IN NEXT-GENERATION GEOTHERMAL PROJECTS | RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A | 2857 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18659679 | FIBER OPTICS ACOUSTIC STEERING FOR DIRECTIONAL DRILLING | DINH, LYNDA | 2857 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialFervo Energy Company has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Manuel A Rivera Vargas has the most, with 1 of Fervo Energy Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
