Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Helmerich & Payne Technologies LLC is managing 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for a single pending matter. This arrangement prevents a concentration of the company's Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems workload under any one individual at the patent office.
All pending office actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a high degree of technical focus for the current portfolio. QUAIM, LAMIA is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Although there are 3 distinct examiners, the fact that they all operate within 1 distinct art unit suggests a consistent technical environment for the pending actions. This combination of examiners in a single art unit may lead to shared internal discussions regarding the company's Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUAIM, LAMIA | 1 | 74.0% | +17.8% |
| SOTO, HENRIX | 1 | 71.2% | +31.3% |
| NORRIS, URSULA LEE | 1 | 81.7% | +6.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18531494 | DRILLING ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | NORRIS, URSULA LEE | 202d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18679721 | SYSTEM SEQUENTIAL STATUS INDICATOR FOR DOWNHOLE TRACKING | QUAIM, LAMIA | — |
| 18443088 | AUTONOMOUS LOAD COUPLING AND ORIENTATION APPARATUS AND REMOTE LOCKING SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | SOTO, HENRIX | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18679721 | SYSTEM SEQUENTIAL STATUS INDICATOR FOR DOWNHOLE TRACKING | QUAIM, LAMIA | — |
| 18443088 | AUTONOMOUS LOAD COUPLING AND ORIENTATION APPARATUS AND REMOTE LOCKING SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | SOTO, HENRIX | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3676 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18679721 | SYSTEM SEQUENTIAL STATUS INDICATOR FOR DOWNHOLE TRACKING | QUAIM, LAMIA | 3676 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18443088 | AUTONOMOUS LOAD COUPLING AND ORIENTATION APPARATUS AND REMOTE LOCKING SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | SOTO, HENRIX | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
| 18531494 | DRILLING ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | NORRIS, URSULA LEE | 3676 | §103 | Final Rejection | 202d overdue | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
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