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 • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Grant Prideco Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are spread across 2 distinct art units, which suggests a slight diversification in the mechanical or systems classifications being pursued. The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is currently responsible for exactly a single pending office action. This distribution indicates that the company's current legal matters are being reviewed by several different individuals simultaneously.
STEVEN A MACDONALD is the busiest examiner for this company, with 1 pending office action currently under review. Because the total number of active matters and distinct examiners are equal, the workload is evenly distributed. The 2 distinct art units involved indicate that the portfolio touches on multiple sub-specialties within the broader Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. This variety in art units suggests that the mechanical engineering aspects of the filings are not confined to a single examination group.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MACDONALD, STEVEN A | 1 | 80.2% | +13.1% |
| WALLACE, KIPP CHARLES | 1 | 78.3% | +25.5% |
| CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | 1 | 74.4% | +11.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19416974 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONNECTING SEPARATE COILED TUBING STRINGS AT A WELLSITE | MACDONALD, STEVEN A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18653519 | FIBER REINFORCED LAMINATE PIPE JOINT INSERT | CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | 12d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18653519 | FIBER REINFORCED LAMINATE PIPE JOINT INSERT | CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | 12d |
| 19287637 | FIXED CUTTER DRILL BITS INCLUDING CUTTER ELEMENTS WITH VARIABLE EXPOSURES | WALLACE, KIPP CHARLES | 63d |
| 19416974 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONNECTING SEPARATE COILED TUBING STRINGS AT A WELLSITE | MACDONALD, STEVEN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3674 | 2 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19416974 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONNECTING SEPARATE COILED TUBING STRINGS AT A WELLSITE | MACDONALD, STEVEN A | 3674 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2025 |
| 19287637 | FIXED CUTTER DRILL BITS INCLUDING CUTTER ELEMENTS WITH VARIABLE EXPOSURES | WALLACE, KIPP CHARLES | 3674 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Jul 31, 2025 |
| 18653519 | FIBER REINFORCED LAMINATE PIPE JOINT INSERT | CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | 3679 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
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