Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
FMC Technologies Inc. has 3 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual.
GAY, JENNIFER HAWKINS is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Since there are multiple pending office actions and distinct examiners, the workload is distributed such that this examiner is responsible for 1 pending action.
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 | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GAY, JENNIFER HAWKINS | 1 | 85.1% | +8.6% |
| FEITL, LEAH M | 1 | 22.6% | +5.8% |
| AKRAM, IMRAN | 1 | 64.7% | +43.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18786278 | FLEXIBLE PIPE FOR HYDRAULIC FRACTURING APPLICATIONS | GAY, JENNIFER HAWKINS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18172452 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EMISSIONS-BASED ASSET INTEGRITY MONITORING AND MAINTENANCE | FEITL, LEAH M | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17753855 | POWER STORAGE AND SALT WATER CLEANING SYSTEM | AKRAM, IMRAN | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2147 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18786278 | FLEXIBLE PIPE FOR HYDRAULIC FRACTURING APPLICATIONS | GAY, JENNIFER HAWKINS | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18172452 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EMISSIONS-BASED ASSET INTEGRITY MONITORING AND MAINTENANCE | FEITL, LEAH M | 2147 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2023 |
| 17753855 | POWER STORAGE AND SALT WATER CLEANING SYSTEM | AKRAM, IMRAN | 1725 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Mar 16, 2022 |
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