Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fluor Technologies Corporation has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. KING, BRIAN M is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action.
Each of the 2 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different art unit. This distribution across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's current filings in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area cover different technical topics. Managing the pending office actions across separate art units requires the company to address different sets of technical and procedural standards simultaneously.
KING, BRIAN M is responsible for 1 pending office action, which represents half of the pending portfolio. With 2 distinct examiners involved, the company's prosecution is not concentrated under a single official. This fragmented structure means that the outcome of one pending office action may not necessarily influence the other, as they are being handled by different examiners in different technical sections of the patent office.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KING, BRIAN M | 1 | 70.3% | +23.7% |
| NGUYEN, THUYHANG NGOC | 1 | 83.0% | +26.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19003644 | METHODS AND CONFIGURATION FOR RETROFITTING NGL PLANT FOR HIGH ETHANE RECOVERY | KING, BRIAN M | — |
| 18044930 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING WELDED JOINTS | NGUYEN, THUYHANG NGOC | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19003644 | METHODS AND CONFIGURATION FOR RETROFITTING NGL PLANT FOR HIGH ETHANE RECOVERY | KING, BRIAN M | — |
| 18044930 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING WELDED JOINTS | NGUYEN, THUYHANG NGOC | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19003644 | METHODS AND CONFIGURATION FOR RETROFITTING NGL PLANT FOR HIGH ETHANE RECOVERY | KING, BRIAN M | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18044930 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING WELDED JOINTS | NGUYEN, THUYHANG NGOC | 3761 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialFluor Technologies Corporation has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Brian M King has the most, with 1 of Fluor Technologies Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
