Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
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
Klx Energy Services LLC operates in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company has 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This profile indicates a focused prosecution effort within a specific mechanical or energy-related niche.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is PRICE, CRAIG JAMES. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the portfolio contains only 1 pending office action, PRICE, CRAIG JAMES manages the entire current workload. This indicates a centralized prosecution effort. Practitioners should recognize that the company's immediate patent goals are tied to the evaluation of 1 distinct examiner. This concentration allows for a specific focus during the prosecution of the pending matter. With 1 pending office action total and 1 distinct examiner, the current workload is entirely directed through a single point of contact at the patent office, situated within 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 1 | 68.9% | +22.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18233266 | SAND LOCK VALVE | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18233266 | SAND LOCK VALVE | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18233266 | SAND LOCK VALVE | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 3753 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
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