Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Magnetic Variation Services LLC manages 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 2 actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each pending matter involves a unique technical sub-specialty and is being handled independently within the USPTO.
Lamia Quaim is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending actions in total, Quaim is responsible for one of the company's current matters. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 shows that no single examiner is managing more than one case for this company at this time.
The use of 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending office actions highlights the technical diversity of the company's filings. Practitioners should be prepared for different examination approaches, as 2 distinct examiners are involved across different technical groups. This decentralized structure for a small portfolio means that the outcome of one office action may not necessarily predict the outcome of the other.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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% |
| SHARMIN, ANZUMAN | 1 | 79.0% | +31.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18587697 | DETERMINING THE LIKELIHOOD AND UNCERTAINTY OF THE WELLBORE BEING AT A PARTICULAR STRATIGRAPHIC VERTICAL DEPTH | SHARMIN, ANZUMAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19332930 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR WELLBORE FRICTION PROFILE | QUAIM, LAMIA | 4d overdue |
| 18587697 | DETERMINING THE LIKELIHOOD AND UNCERTAINTY OF THE WELLBORE BEING AT A PARTICULAR STRATIGRAPHIC VERTICAL DEPTH | SHARMIN, ANZUMAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3676 | 1 |
| 2115 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19332930 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR WELLBORE FRICTION PROFILE | QUAIM, LAMIA | 3676 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Sep 18, 2025 |
| 18587697 | DETERMINING THE LIKELIHOOD AND UNCERTAINTY OF THE WELLBORE BEING AT A PARTICULAR STRATIGRAPHIC VERTICAL DEPTH | SHARMIN, ANZUMAN | 2115 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
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