Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Patterson-Uti Drilling Company LLC currently has 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, showing technical diversity for a small number of active matters. The company is working with 3 distinct examiners to resolve these filings. This distribution across 3 distinct art units and 3 distinct examiners means that the company faces a variety of examiner perspectives despite the small portfolio size.
TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. This means 2 of the 4 pending office actions are concentrated with one individual. Given the scale of 4 total actions, the influence of TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J is significant. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific requirements of this examiner and the 3 distinct art units involved to efficiently move these matters toward allowance. The presence of 3 distinct examiners for 4 pending office actions suggests that while there is some concentration, the company still must address different examiner preferences.
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 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 | 2 | 70.0% | +31.7% |
| CARROLL, DAVID P. | 1 | 80.1% | +14.3% |
| KESSIE, DANIEL | 1 | 62.1% | +24.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19531119 | SERVICEABLE GRIPPING SYSTEMS FOR TOP DRIVES | CARROLL, DAVID P. | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18158118 | Integrated Wellsite System and Method for Greenhouse Gas Capture and Sequestration | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 29d |
| 18316038 | Greenhouse Gas Capture and Sequestration System and Method with Collection Service | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18158118 | Integrated Wellsite System and Method for Greenhouse Gas Capture and Sequestration | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 29d |
| 19531119 | SERVICEABLE GRIPPING SYSTEMS FOR TOP DRIVES | CARROLL, DAVID P. | — |
| 19007068 | System and Method for Battery Source Integration and Utilization with Utility Power | KESSIE, DANIEL | — |
| 18316038 | Greenhouse Gas Capture and Sequestration System and Method with Collection Service | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3678 | 2 |
| 3674 | 1 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19531119 | SERVICEABLE GRIPPING SYSTEMS FOR TOP DRIVES | CARROLL, DAVID P. | 3674 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2026 |
| 19007068 | System and Method for Battery Source Integration and Utilization with Utility Power | KESSIE, DANIEL | 2836 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 18316038 | Greenhouse Gas Capture and Sequestration System and Method with Collection Service | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 3678 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
| 18158118 | Integrated Wellsite System and Method for Greenhouse Gas Capture and Sequestration | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 3678 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jan 23, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPatterson-Uti Drilling Company LLC has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Edwin J Toledo-Duran has the most, with 2 of Patterson-Uti Drilling Company LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
