Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Oil States Industries Inc. has 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. There are 0 distinct art units listed for this filing. With 1 pending action and 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution strategy is limited to a single point of contact at the USPTO, focusing on the specific feedback from TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 1 | 70.0% | +31.7% |
| ROST, ANDREW J | 1 | 65.7% | +19.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18888984 | COUPLED VALVE ASSEMBLY | ROST, ANDREW J | 40d |
| 19037889 | INTERNAL JACKET LEVELING TOOL | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3678 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19037889 | INTERNAL JACKET LEVELING TOOL | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 3678 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18888984 | COUPLED VALVE ASSEMBLY | ROST, ANDREW J | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialOil States Industries Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Edwin J Toledo-Duran has the most, with 1 of Oil States Industries Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.