Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Marathon Petroleum Company L.P.

4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

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%)
0
Medium (0%)
4
Easy (100%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§112 only1 (25%)
Double-patenting only3 (75%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
25% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
50% of docket
1
Business / Other
25% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
RODZIWICZ, AARON M 1 70.5% +17.9%
AVILA, STEPHEN P 1 80.4% +10.1%
ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA 1 63.6% +24.1%
HALL, DEVE V. 1 75.1% +16.6%

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
18970870 EXHAUST VENT HOODS FOR MARINE VESSELS AND RELATED METHODS AVILA, STEPHEN P

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
18679385 INSULATION SECUREMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA 43d overdue
18217061 MODIFIED ASPHALTS WITH ENHANCED RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES AND ASSOCIATED METHODS HALL, DEVE V. 84d
19226818 APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS TO MANAGE VEGETATION ALONG A RIGHT-OF-WAY RODZIWICZ, AARON M
18970870 EXHAUST VENT HOODS FOR MARINE VESSELS AND RELATED METHODS AVILA, STEPHEN P

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3642 1
3736 1
1763 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19226818 APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS TO MANAGE VEGETATION ALONG A RIGHT-OF-WAY RODZIWICZ, AARON M 3642 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 03, 2025
18970870 EXHAUST VENT HOODS FOR MARINE VESSELS AND RELATED METHODS AVILA, STEPHEN P DP Non-Final OA Pending Dec 05, 2024
18679385 INSULATION SECUREMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA 3736 DP Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending May 30, 2024
18217061 MODIFIED ASPHALTS WITH ENHANCED RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES AND ASSOCIATED METHODS HALL, DEVE V. 1763 DP Non-Final OA 84d Pending Jun 30, 2023

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