Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras

8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

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.

3
Hard (38%)
0
Medium (0%)
5
Easy (62%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§112 only5 (62%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (38%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
12% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
25% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
38% of docket
2
Business / Other
25% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ARUNDALE, ROBERT K 1 75.5% +24.2%
SAYRE, JAMES G 1 84.0% +12.8%
ARTHUR JEANGLAUDE, GERTRUDE 1 92.9% +4.5%
DO, ANDREW V 1 84.8% +11.3%
PEREZ, BRYAN REYNALDO 1 84.0% +13.8%
VENNE, DANIEL V 1 71.3% +15.0%
LAWSON, STACY N 1 62.5% +51.9%
SMARI, ABDUL-RAHMAN YUSUF WALEED 1 87.8% +13.7%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18938529 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT ROUNDS AND AUTOMATIC DATA ACQUISITION ARTHUR JEANGLAUDE, GERTRUDE
18734313 METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING THE SELECTION OF POINTS TO OBTAIN FORMATION STATIC PRESSURE BASED ON THE RELATION BETWEEN THE PERMEABILITY INDEX AND THE EFFECTIVE POROSITY DO, ANDREW V

Hard Cases (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18640673 SINUSOIDAL SINGLE-PHASE FREQUENCY INVERTER PEREZ, BRYAN REYNALDO 49d overdue
18256538 METHODS FOR PREPARING A CATALYTIC CONVERTER BY DISPLACEMENT OF WATER GAS AT HIGH TEMPERATURE AND METHOD FOR REDUCING CARBON MONOXIDE CONTENT SMARI, ABDUL-RAHMAN YUSUF WALEED 12d
19057565 SUBSEA SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERCONNECTING PRODUCING AND INJECTING WELLS IN PAIRS TO AN AGGREGATING COMPONENT SAYRE, JAMES G 27d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18640673 SINUSOIDAL SINGLE-PHASE FREQUENCY INVERTER PEREZ, BRYAN REYNALDO 49d overdue
18528872 SUBSEA DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING A SEAL VENNE, DANIEL V 1d overdue
18256538 METHODS FOR PREPARING A CATALYTIC CONVERTER BY DISPLACEMENT OF WATER GAS AT HIGH TEMPERATURE AND METHOD FOR REDUCING CARBON MONOXIDE CONTENT SMARI, ABDUL-RAHMAN YUSUF WALEED 12d
19057565 SUBSEA SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERCONNECTING PRODUCING AND INJECTING WELLS IN PAIRS TO AN AGGREGATING COMPONENT SAYRE, JAMES G 27d
19196951 ISOLATION SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR SUBSEA PIPELINES ARUNDALE, ROBERT K
18734313 METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING THE SELECTION OF POINTS TO OBTAIN FORMATION STATIC PRESSURE BASED ON THE RELATION BETWEEN THE PERMEABILITY INDEX AND THE EFFECTIVE POROSITY DO, ANDREW V
18258530 EQUIPMENT AND METHOD FOR RECOVERING FLEXIBLE PIPES WITHOUT THE USE OF SPECIAL VESSELS LAWSON, STACY N

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3672 1
2852 1
2838 1
3615 1
3678 1
1736 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19196951 ISOLATION SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR SUBSEA PIPELINES ARUNDALE, ROBERT K §112 Non-Final OA Pending May 02, 2025
19057565 SUBSEA SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERCONNECTING PRODUCING AND INJECTING WELLS IN PAIRS TO AN AGGREGATING COMPONENT SAYRE, JAMES G 3672 §102§103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Feb 19, 2025
18938529 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT ROUNDS AND AUTOMATIC DATA ACQUISITION ARTHUR JEANGLAUDE, GERTRUDE §112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 06, 2024
18734313 METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING THE SELECTION OF POINTS TO OBTAIN FORMATION STATIC PRESSURE BASED ON THE RELATION BETWEEN THE PERMEABILITY INDEX AND THE EFFECTIVE POROSITY DO, ANDREW V 2852 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 05, 2024
18640673 SINUSOIDAL SINGLE-PHASE FREQUENCY INVERTER PEREZ, BRYAN REYNALDO 2838 §102§103 Final Rejection 49d overdue Pending Apr 19, 2024
18528872 SUBSEA DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING A SEAL VENNE, DANIEL V 3615 §112 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Dec 05, 2023
18258530 EQUIPMENT AND METHOD FOR RECOVERING FLEXIBLE PIPES WITHOUT THE USE OF SPECIAL VESSELS LAWSON, STACY N 3678 §112 Final Rejection Pending Jun 20, 2023
18256538 METHODS FOR PREPARING A CATALYTIC CONVERTER BY DISPLACEMENT OF WATER GAS AT HIGH TEMPERATURE AND METHOD FOR REDUCING CARBON MONOXIDE CONTENT SMARI, ABDUL-RAHMAN YUSUF WALEED 1736 §102§103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jun 08, 2023

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