Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Indian Oil Corporation Limited

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (60%)
2
Easy (40%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (40%)
§102 only1 (20%)
§112 only2 (40%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

3
Life Sciences
60% of docket
1
Information Tech
20% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
20% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
OYER, ANDREW J 1 79.5% +16.1%
KARIM, ZIAUL 1 81.8% +21.8%
RUBY, TRAVIS C 1 53.1% +28.3%
PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY 1 38.1% +2.5%
CHEN, CATHERYNE 1 37.4% +18.4%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18187091 OPTIMIZED MULTI-MODEL ELECTRICAL HEATING METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREFOR KARIM, ZIAUL 22d

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17969188 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT HEAT STORAGE AND RETENTION RUBY, TRAVIS C 43d overdue
17290629 BIO-PESTICIDE OIL FORMULATION CHEN, CATHERYNE 4d overdue
18187091 OPTIMIZED MULTI-MODEL ELECTRICAL HEATING METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREFOR KARIM, ZIAUL 22d
18134910 HYDROPHOBIC FLUORESCENT CARBON QUANTUM DOT FOR MARKER APPLICATION IN HYDROCARBON LIQUIDS AND PROCESS OF PREPARATION THEREOF OYER, ANDREW J 61d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1767 1
2119 1
3763 1
1738 1
1655 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18134910 HYDROPHOBIC FLUORESCENT CARBON QUANTUM DOT FOR MARKER APPLICATION IN HYDROCARBON LIQUIDS AND PROCESS OF PREPARATION THEREOF OYER, ANDREW J 1767 §112 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Apr 14, 2023
18187091 OPTIMIZED MULTI-MODEL ELECTRICAL HEATING METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREFOR KARIM, ZIAUL 2119 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Mar 21, 2023
17969188 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT HEAT STORAGE AND RETENTION RUBY, TRAVIS C 3763 §102 Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending Oct 19, 2022
17950947 METHOD FOR PRODUCING ANODE GRADE COKE FROM CRUDE OILS PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY 1738 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Sep 22, 2022
17290629 BIO-PESTICIDE OIL FORMULATION CHEN, CATHERYNE 1655 §112 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Apr 30, 2021

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