Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nabors Industries Ltd. has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 5 examiners and 5 art units, creating a separate examination path for each pending matter.
MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M is the busiest identified examiner, with 1 pending matter. The profile supports independent review of claim scope, cited art, and response strategy for each assignment.
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 (17%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, SMITA S | 2 | 70.3% | +57.3% |
| MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | 1 | 69.2% | +19.6% |
| HESS, MICHAEL J | 1 | 43.4% | +5.4% |
| GUADALUPE, YARITZA | 1 | 82.3% | +14.9% |
| SAFAIPOUR, BOBBAK | 1 | 86.1% | +10.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18316313 | TUBULAR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ERROR DETECTION | SAFAIPOUR, BOBBAK | 118d overdue |
| 18759851 | DETERMINING CONTINUOUS INCLINATION ANGLE | GUADALUPE, YARITZA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18939652 | DRILLER’S CABIN CAMERA SYSTEM | HESS, MICHAEL J | 23d |
| 19181662 | FLUID TRANSFER ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | — |
| 18176558 | OXYGEN DOPED CARBON-BASED NANOMATERIAL AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | PATEL, SMITA S | — |
| 18176587 | SILICON DOPED CARBON-BASED NANOMATERIAL AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | PATEL, SMITA S | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18316313 | TUBULAR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ERROR DETECTION | SAFAIPOUR, BOBBAK | 118d overdue |
| 19181662 | FLUID TRANSFER ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | — |
| 18176558 | OXYGEN DOPED CARBON-BASED NANOMATERIAL AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | PATEL, SMITA S | — |
| 18176587 | SILICON DOPED CARBON-BASED NANOMATERIAL AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | PATEL, SMITA S | — |
| 18759851 | DETERMINING CONTINUOUS INCLINATION ANGLE | GUADALUPE, YARITZA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1732 | 2 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 2481 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 2665 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19181662 | FLUID TRANSFER ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | 3753 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 18176558 | OXYGEN DOPED CARBON-BASED NANOMATERIAL AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | PATEL, SMITA S | 1732 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
| 18176587 | SILICON DOPED CARBON-BASED NANOMATERIAL AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | PATEL, SMITA S | 1732 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
| 18939652 | DRILLER’S CABIN CAMERA SYSTEM | HESS, MICHAEL J | 2481 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18759851 | DETERMINING CONTINUOUS INCLINATION ANGLE | GUADALUPE, YARITZA | 2855 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2024 |
| 18316313 | TUBULAR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ERROR DETECTION | SAFAIPOUR, BOBBAK | 2665 | §103 | Final Rejection | 118d overdue | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNabors Industries Ltd. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Smita S Patel has the most, with 2 of Nabors Industries Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
