Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Onesubsea AS has 2 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 2 examiners within 1 art unit, showing separate examiner handling inside a single technical grouping.
MICHENER, BLAKE E is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can use the shared art-unit context to identify common examination considerations, while keeping examiner-specific responses separate.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MICHENER, BLAKE E | 1 | 77.3% | +25.2% |
| PATEL, NEEL G | 1 | 62.1% | +34.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19376532 | TENSIONED WELLHEAD SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS | MICHENER, BLAKE E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19376532 | TENSIONED WELLHEAD SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS | MICHENER, BLAKE E | — |
| 19191935 | WELLHEAD RETRIEVAL TOOL AND METHOD OF RETRIEVING A WELLHEAD | PATEL, NEEL G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3676 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19376532 | TENSIONED WELLHEAD SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS | MICHENER, BLAKE E | 3676 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2025 |
| 19191935 | WELLHEAD RETRIEVAL TOOL AND METHOD OF RETRIEVING A WELLHEAD | PATEL, NEEL G | 3676 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialOnesubsea AS has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Blake E Michener has the most, with 1 of Onesubsea AS's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
