Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
NexTier Completion Solutions Inc. is currently managing 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that each pending matter is being handled by a different examiner in a different technical group. This spread suggests that the company's innovations in the semiconductors field are diverse enough to fall under multiple examination categories. Managing prosecution across 2 different art units requires the company to adapt to varying technical standards and examiner expectations.
FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action, which accounts for 1 of the company's 2 total pending actions. The other half of the pending workload is managed by the second distinct examiner in a separate art unit. This balanced distribution of the 2 pending actions means that the company's prosecution risks are not concentrated under a single individual or technical group. Each action represents an independent opportunity for the company to expand its intellectual property holdings in the semiconductors and optics space.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L | 1 | 63.9% | +17.1% |
| RODRIGUEZ, JOSHUA KIEL MIGUEL | 1 | 73.2% | +17.2% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18168900 | ENCLOSURE FOR A GENERATOR SET SYSTEM | RODRIGUEZ, JOSHUA KIEL MIGUEL | 60d overdue |
| 19210694 | Determining Groupings of Two or More Boreholes | FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19210694 | Determining Groupings of Two or More Boreholes | FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L | 2857 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 18168900 | ENCLOSURE FOR A GENERATOR SET SYSTEM | RODRIGUEZ, JOSHUA KIEL MIGUEL | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
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