Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
J Ray Mcdermott S A has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is in 1 distinct art unit and is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. ARMSTRONG, KYLE is the examiner for this 1 pending office action.
With only one case pending, the company's current USPTO activity is focused entirely on this single examiner and art unit. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences of ARMSTRONG, KYLE within the 1 distinct art unit to anticipate the outcome of the 1 pending office action. The Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area defines the technical scope of this matter. This 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the company's current prosecution profile under the 1 distinct examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARMSTRONG, KYLE | 1 | 72.0% | +29.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19118498 | VORTEX-INDUCED VIBRATION (VIV) SUPPRESSION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF INSTALLATION | ARMSTRONG, KYLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19118498 | VORTEX-INDUCED VIBRATION (VIV) SUPPRESSION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF INSTALLATION | ARMSTRONG, KYLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19118498 | VORTEX-INDUCED VIBRATION (VIV) SUPPRESSION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF INSTALLATION | ARMSTRONG, KYLE | 3619 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialJ Ray Mcdermott S A has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kyle Armstrong has the most, with 1 of J Ray Mcdermott S A's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
