Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ncs Multistage Inc. is currently dealing with 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. The company's active prosecution is limited to this single technical evaluation, suggesting a highly focused approach to its mechanical systems patent portfolio. Having only 1 pending office action allows the company to focus its arguments on the specific technical issues raised by the examiner.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is PATEL, NEEL G, who holds 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there is only 1 pending action total, this examiner is the sole authority currently reviewing the company's patent claims. Practitioners should focus on the specific art unit standards applied by this examiner. Since the prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the applicant can develop a targeted response that directly addresses the examiner's concerns to move the application toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, NEEL G | 1 | 61.9% | +35.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18261140 | IN SITU INJECTION OR PRODUCTION VIA A WELL USING DART-ACTUATED VALVE ASSEMBLIES AND RELATED SYSTEM AND METHOD | PATEL, NEEL G | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3676 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18261140 | IN SITU INJECTION OR PRODUCTION VIA A WELL USING DART-ACTUATED VALVE ASSEMBLIES AND RELATED SYSTEM AND METHOD | PATEL, NEEL G | 3676 | §102 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
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