Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Petróleo Brasileiro S A - Petrobrás

1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Petróleo Brasileiro S A - Petrobrás has 1 pending office action. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 0 distinct art units. TAK LIANG CHIU is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the company's entire pending workload.

The absence of a recorded technology area or art unit indicates a very narrow and centralized prosecution profile, with all active matters focused on the review of this one individual. A practitioner would need to focus exclusively on the requirements and examination style of TAK LIANG CHIU. The lack of multiple pending actions or recorded art units means there are no other ongoing cases to provide a broader context for the company's strategy. Because this examiner's pending count matches the total number of 1 pending office action, the entire active portfolio is under the review of this single individual.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

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.

1
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
100% 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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHIU, TAK LIANG 1 48.8% +20.7%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18720041 MAGNETIC ANTI-SCALING DEVICE CHIU, TAK LIANG —

Interview Candidates (1)

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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18720041 MAGNETIC ANTI-SCALING DEVICE CHIU, TAK LIANG —

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18720041 MAGNETIC ANTI-SCALING DEVICE CHIU, TAK LIANG — §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 14, 2024

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