Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hydril Company operates within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions, which are distributed among 2 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates that each pending matter is being handled by a different individual, requiring the company to account for multiple examiner perspectives within its prosecution strategy.
The portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the technical focus of the company's innovations is relatively narrow. DUNWOODY, AARON M is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 busiest examiner pending office action represents half of the total pending workload for the company.
For practitioners, the presence of 2 distinct examiners within a single art unit requires maintaining consistency in technical arguments. While the examiners may have different individual styles, they are both operating under the same art unit standards. The 2 pending office actions are evenly split, meaning that the outcome of each case is equally important to the company's current intellectual property goals 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| §112 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% |
| WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 1 | 78.2% | +11.6% |
| WAITS, ALAN B | 1 | 68.8% | +29.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19445228 | LEAK CONTAINMENT SYSTEM | MACDONALD, STEVEN A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18962865 | POLYCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND BEARINGS IN AN RCD | WAITS, ALAN B | 9d overdue |
| 19445228 | LEAK CONTAINMENT SYSTEM | MACDONALD, STEVEN A | — |
| 19060159 | MULTILINE RISER BIG BORE CONNECTOR | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3674 | 1 |
| 3672 | 1 |
| 3617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19445228 | LEAK CONTAINMENT SYSTEM | MACDONALD, STEVEN A | 3674 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2026 |
| 19060159 | MULTILINE RISER BIG BORE CONNECTOR | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 3672 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 18962865 | POLYCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND BEARINGS IN AN RCD | WAITS, ALAN B | 3617 | §112 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
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