Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Patterson-Uti Drilling Company LLC currently faces 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Both of these actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner, Edwin J Toledo-Duran, indicating a high degree of consolidation in the company's current patent prosecution efforts. This concentration means that all of the company's active prosecution is handled by a single individual, which can lead to a very consistent examination experience.
Edwin J Toledo-Duran is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 2 busiest examiner pending actions. The portfolio's activity is located within 1 distinct art unit. Such a setup allows for a consistent dialogue between the applicant and the examiner across the 2 pending office actions. For the practitioner, this suggests that the legal arguments and technical disclosures used in one application are likely to be directly relevant to the other. The focus on 1 distinct art unit within the transportation and mechanical systems sector implies that the company is currently refining a specific technological platform rather than diversifying across different mechanical fields.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 | 70.1% | +32.2% |
| CARROLL, DAVID P. | 1 | 80.2% | +14.1% |
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 3 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. | — |
| 18316038 | Greenhouse Gas Capture and Sequestration System and Method with Collection Service | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3678 | 2 |
| 3674 | 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 |
| 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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