Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras

20 pending office actions • 17 art units • 20 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 30 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

20
Total Pending OAs
16
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

12
Overdue
1
Due this week
5
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

2
Hard (10%)
16
Medium (80%)
2
Easy (10%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (10%)
§103 only14 (70%)
§102 only2 (10%)
§112 only2 (10%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

3
Life Sciences
15% of docket
5
Information Tech
25% of docket
1
Communications
5% of docket
1
Semiconductors
5% of docket
9
Mechanical / Eng
45% of docket
1
Business / Other
5% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

200 h
Manual time on pending OAs
40 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
70 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SAYRE, JAMES G 1 84.0% +12.8%
RO, YONG-SUK 1 85.4% +7.7%
GARDNER, NICOLE 1 68.8% +15.5%
HALL, KRISTYN A 1 81.8% -6.3%
RUNYAN, SILVANA C 1 82.2% +17.1%
DANG, RACHEL YEN VI 1
BREIER, KRYSTINE E 1 81.9% +8.3%
SINGER, DAVID L 1 68.2% +43.1%
SINGH, SUNIL 1 67.3% +24.7%
SAN, JASON W 1 65.4% +31.8%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19089897 MAGNETIC DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING FLUID FLOW IN A WELL RO, YONG-SUK 126d overdue
19178563 Device and Method for Disconnecting Jammed Subsea Wet-Mate Connectors SAYRE, JAMES G 53d overdue
18753997 System And Method For Carrying Out Different Modalities Of Simultaneous Capture, Utilization And Storage Of CO2 RUNYAN, SILVANA C 15d
18400903 Modular System and Marine Seismic Monitoring Method by Permanent Point Receivers, Support-Pile Module, Telescopic-Type Pile, Method of Burying and Method of Unearthing of the Telescopic-Type Pile BREIER, KRYSTINE E 15d

Hard Cases (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17669902 MODELING A KARST FORMATION FOR A WELLBORE OPERATION HAO, YI 5d overdue
18965908 COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR REAL-TIME LWD PROFILE PREDICTION IN THE INTERVALS FROM THE DRILL TIP TO THE LIMIT OF THE DEPTH PROFILE OFFSETS HALL, KRISTYN A 4d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19178563 Device and Method for Disconnecting Jammed Subsea Wet-Mate Connectors SAYRE, JAMES G 53d overdue
18493125 NUT GUIDE SAN, JASON W 22d overdue
18397496 DUCT THICKNESS MEASUREMENT DEVICE SIMULTANEOUS SUBMARINES AT MULTIPLE POINTS SINGER, DAVID L 9d overdue
18494588 PIPELINE HOISTING STRUCTURE AND METHOD SINGH, SUNIL 3d overdue
18753997 System And Method For Carrying Out Different Modalities Of Simultaneous Capture, Utilization And Storage Of CO2 RUNYAN, SILVANA C 15d
18979413 DEVICE FOR EXTERNAL ACTUATION OF VALVES WITH A DAMAGED BUSHING GARDNER, NICOLE 29d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3678 2
2189 2
3679 1
3676 1
3753 1
3672 1
3674 1
2661 1
3645 1
2855 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19178563 Device and Method for Disconnecting Jammed Subsea Wet-Mate Connectors SAYRE, JAMES G 3679 §103 Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Apr 14, 2025
19089897 MAGNETIC DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING FLUID FLOW IN A WELL RO, YONG-SUK 3676 §103 Non-Final OA 126d overdue Pending Mar 25, 2025
18979413 DEVICE FOR EXTERNAL ACTUATION OF VALVES WITH A DAMAGED BUSHING GARDNER, NICOLE 3753 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Dec 12, 2024
18965908 COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR REAL-TIME LWD PROFILE PREDICTION IN THE INTERVALS FROM THE DRILL TIP TO THE LIMIT OF THE DEPTH PROFILE OFFSETS HALL, KRISTYN A 3672 §101 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Dec 02, 2024
18753997 System And Method For Carrying Out Different Modalities Of Simultaneous Capture, Utilization And Storage Of CO2 RUNYAN, SILVANA C 3674 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Jun 25, 2024
18640649 METHOD OF MONITORING IMAGES DANG, RACHEL YEN VI 2661 §112 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Apr 19, 2024
18400903 Modular System and Marine Seismic Monitoring Method by Permanent Point Receivers, Support-Pile Module, Telescopic-Type Pile, Method of Burying and Method of Unearthing of the Telescopic-Type Pile BREIER, KRYSTINE E 3645 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Dec 29, 2023
18397496 DUCT THICKNESS MEASUREMENT DEVICE SIMULTANEOUS SUBMARINES AT MULTIPLE POINTS SINGER, DAVID L 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Dec 27, 2023
18494588 PIPELINE HOISTING STRUCTURE AND METHOD SINGH, SUNIL 3678 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2023
18493125 NUT GUIDE SAN, JASON W 3677 §102 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2023
18462319 SUBSEA TERMINATION DEVICE AND METHOD FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F 3678 §112 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Sep 06, 2023
18006014 THIRD-STAGE SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATIC BLEEDING, AND USE THEREOF BUI, DUNG H 1773 §103 Final Rejection 132d overdue Pending Jan 19, 2023
18084730 METHOD FOR EVALUATION OF OIL LISTS FOR ASPHALT PRODUCTION STOICA, ADRIAN 2188 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Dec 20, 2022
18081483 DATA ANALOG IDENTIFICATION METHOD SCHWARZENBERG, PAUL §102 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2022
17989829 RHEOLOGICAL MODEL OF WATER-IN-OIL EMULSIONS OBTAINED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE GEBRESILASSIE, KIBROM K 2189 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Nov 18, 2022
17984692 METHOD FOR MODELING THE DAMAGE ZONE OF FAULTS IN FRACTURED RESERVOIRS ALHIJA, SAIF A 2186 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Nov 10, 2022
17983606 METHOD FOR UNIFORMIZATION OF FLOW FOR STIMULATION OPERATIONS MOLL, NITHYA JANAKIRAMAN 2189 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Nov 09, 2022
17976117 POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE FOR USE IN ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT WITH PROPERTIES SUITABLE FOR APPLICATIONS SUCH AS ELECTRICAL INSULATION AND WITH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY GAIN CAI, WENWEN 1763 §103 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Oct 28, 2022
17669902 MODELING A KARST FORMATION FOR A WELLBORE OPERATION HAO, YI 2187 §101 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Feb 11, 2022
17666272 CATALYSTS, PROCESS FOR OBTAINING AND STEAM PRE-REFORMING PROCESS OF HYDROCARBONS SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL 1736 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Feb 07, 2022

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