Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) is managing 9 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 9 distinct examiners and 8 distinct art units. This indicates a prosecution environment with technical breadth across many different specialized groups at the patent office.
GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE is the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This single action is 1 of the 9 pending office actions. The presence of 8 distinct art units for 9 actions indicates that the company's pending matters cover a range of specific chemical and material technologies. Managing 9 distinct examiners across 8 art units requires an approach to maintain consistency in prosecution. The count of 8 distinct art units relative to the total actions highlights the varied nature of the company's innovations.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 4 (57%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALKER, AJA ARYANNA | 1 | 57.1% | +50.0% |
| SHINE, NICHOLAS B | 1 | 38.6% | +43.3% |
| BALDWIN, RANDALL KERN | 1 | 79.6% | +27.8% |
| BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 1 | 71.1% | +17.0% |
| FRANK, RODNEY T | 1 | 72.7% | +3.6% |
| COCCHI, MICHAEL EDWARD | 1 | 40.9% | +47.7% |
| LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1 | 78.2% | +22.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18272525 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD SUITABLE FOR PREDICTIVE BASED ANALYSIS OF A STRUCTURE | SHINE, NICHOLAS B | 13d |
| 18571044 | PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS | WALKER, AJA ARYANNA | — |
| 17800150 | EQUIPMENT FAILURE PROBABILITY CALCULATION AND LIFETIME ESTIMATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS | COCCHI, MICHAEL EDWARD | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17638814 | METHOD FOR SEQUESTERING CARBON | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 11d overdue |
| 18272525 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD SUITABLE FOR PREDICTIVE BASED ANALYSIS OF A STRUCTURE | SHINE, NICHOLAS B | 13d |
| 18571044 | PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS | WALKER, AJA ARYANNA | — |
| 18037504 | SWEET SPOT-BASED MACHINE LEARNING (SSML) IN ASSOCIATION WITH COMPLETION-BASED MACHINE LEARNING (COMML) | BALDWIN, RANDALL KERN | — |
| 18249591 | BORONIC ESTERS AND COATINGS COMPRISING THEM | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | — |
| 17800150 | EQUIPMENT FAILURE PROBABILITY CALCULATION AND LIFETIME ESTIMATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS | COCCHI, MICHAEL EDWARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2126 | 1 |
| 2125 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 2188 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18571044 | PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS | WALKER, AJA ARYANNA | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18272525 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD SUITABLE FOR PREDICTIVE BASED ANALYSIS OF A STRUCTURE | SHINE, NICHOLAS B | 2126 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
| 18037504 | SWEET SPOT-BASED MACHINE LEARNING (SSML) IN ASSOCIATION WITH COMPLETION-BASED MACHINE LEARNING (COMML) | BALDWIN, RANDALL KERN | 2125 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 17, 2023 |
| 18249591 | BORONIC ESTERS AND COATINGS COMPRISING THEM | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 1764 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
| 18013836 | PIPELINE INSPECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | FRANK, RODNEY T | 2855 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
| 17800150 | EQUIPMENT FAILURE PROBABILITY CALCULATION AND LIFETIME ESTIMATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS | COCCHI, MICHAEL EDWARD | 2188 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2022 |
| 17638814 | METHOD FOR SEQUESTERING CARBON | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1736 | §103 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Feb 26, 2022 |
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