Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Motive Drilling Technologies Inc. operates in the Communications technology area. The company currently has 3 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, which means that each active matter is being reviewed by a different individual.
The portfolio spans 3 distinct art units. This alignment between the number of actions, examiners, and art units suggests that each of the company's active filings is situated in a different technical sub-specialty or administrative group. BENLAGSIR, AMINE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio.
BENLAGSIR, AMINE is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 3, this examiner handles 1 of the 3 active workload matters. The presence of 3 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units for only 3 pending actions demonstrates a fragmented prosecution profile, where no two active cases are currently being evaluated by the same person or within the same art unit.
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.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BENLAGSIR, AMINE | 1 | 68.4% | +59.2% |
| PHILIPPE, GIMS S | 1 | 85.6% | +1.5% |
| GAVIA, NYLA EMANI ANN | 1 | 78.8% | +16.7% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18658665 | DOWNHOLE DISPLAY | PHILIPPE, GIMS S | 26d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19039915 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DRILLING A BOREHOLE | BENLAGSIR, AMINE | 34d |
| 18488041 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A MODE OF DRILLING | GAVIA, NYLA EMANI ANN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19039915 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DRILLING A BOREHOLE | BENLAGSIR, AMINE | 34d |
| 18488041 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A MODE OF DRILLING | GAVIA, NYLA EMANI ANN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2688 | 1 |
| 2424 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19039915 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DRILLING A BOREHOLE | BENLAGSIR, AMINE | 2688 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 18658665 | DOWNHOLE DISPLAY | PHILIPPE, GIMS S | 2424 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18488041 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A MODE OF DRILLING | GAVIA, NYLA EMANI ANN | 2857 | §101§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2023 |
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