Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
2 pending office actions • 0 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 manages a company patent portfolio that currently features 2 pending office actions. These actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners. According to the data, there are 0 distinct art units associated with this portfolio.
The busiest examiner for these filings is RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This examiner is managing 1 of the 2 pending office actions. The presence of the distinct examiners indicates that the portfolio's active cases are not concentrated under a single individual.
The data identifies 0 distinct art units, which characterizes the current organizational state of the Fervo Energy Company portfolio. With the pending office actions and the distinct examiners, the workload is distributed, as evidenced by the busiest examiner pending action assigned to RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A. This distribution suggests a parallel prosecution process across the examiners involved. The 0 distinct art units reflect the current categorization of these active matters.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DINH, LYNDA | 1 | 73.9% | +28.5% |
| RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A | 1 | 81.1% | +11.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18659679 | FIBER OPTICS ACOUSTIC STEERING FOR DIRECTIONAL DRILLING | DINH, LYNDA | — |
| 18659712 | COMPLETION AND WELL PLACEMENT OPTIMIZATION USING DISTRIBUTED FIBER OPTIC SENSING IN NEXT-GENERATION GEOTHERMAL PROJECTS | RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18659679 | FIBER OPTICS ACOUSTIC STEERING FOR DIRECTIONAL DRILLING | DINH, LYNDA | — |
| 18659712 | COMPLETION AND WELL PLACEMENT OPTIMIZATION USING DISTRIBUTED FIBER OPTIC SENSING IN NEXT-GENERATION GEOTHERMAL PROJECTS | RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18659679 | FIBER OPTICS ACOUSTIC STEERING FOR DIRECTIONAL DRILLING | DINH, LYNDA | — | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18659712 | COMPLETION AND WELL PLACEMENT OPTIMIZATION USING DISTRIBUTED FIBER OPTIC SENSING IN NEXT-GENERATION GEOTHERMAL PROJECTS | RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
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