Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fmc Kongsberg Subsea AS currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 3 pending office actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that while the company's work is concentrated in a single technology area, the patent office has assigned the matters to multiple reviewers across 2 distinct art units. For a practitioner, this means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to the specific standards of the different technical groups.
The busiest examiner for Fmc Kongsberg Subsea AS is RO, YONG-SUK, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed, with each examiner handling an action. This means that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the company's current portfolio. Success for the 3 pending office actions depends on the independent evaluations of RO, YONG-SUK and the other distinct examiners. Practitioners should focus on the individual tendencies of each examiner while navigating the requirements of the 2 distinct art units involved in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RO, YONG-SUK | 1 | 85.5% | +7.7% |
| WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 1 | 78.2% | +11.6% |
| LAMBE, PATRICK F | 1 | 62.4% | +28.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18998476 | SUBSEA VALVE ACTUATION SYSTEM | RO, YONG-SUK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18872737 | Subsea Christmas Tree Comprising a Control and Battery Module and Related Method | LAMBE, PATRICK F | 72d |
| 18875140 | Subsea Christmas Tree Comprising a Control and Battery Module and Related Method | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3676 | 2 |
| 3672 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18998476 | SUBSEA VALVE ACTUATION SYSTEM | RO, YONG-SUK | 3676 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2025 |
| 18875140 | Subsea Christmas Tree Comprising a Control and Battery Module and Related Method | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 3672 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2024 |
| 18872737 | Subsea Christmas Tree Comprising a Control and Battery Module and Related Method | LAMBE, PATRICK F | 3676 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 72d | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
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