Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras

5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (60%)
2
Easy (40%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (60%)
§112 only2 (40%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
20% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
20% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
60% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SAYRE, JAMES G 1 84.0% +12.8%
AKAKPO, DANY E 1 87.0% +13.1%
PEREZ, BRYAN REYNALDO 1 83.8% +13.9%
VENNE, DANIEL V 1 71.1% +15.2%
SMARI, ABDUL-RAHMAN YUSUF WALEED 1 86.7% +14.7%

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
18640673 SINUSOIDAL SINGLE-PHASE FREQUENCY INVERTER PEREZ, BRYAN REYNALDO 49d overdue
18938628 METHOD FOR USING DRILLING FLUID IN DRILLING OPERATIONS, DRILLING FLUID AND ITS USE AKAKPO, DANY E 26d 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 (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18640673 SINUSOIDAL SINGLE-PHASE FREQUENCY INVERTER PEREZ, BRYAN REYNALDO 49d overdue
18938628 METHOD FOR USING DRILLING FLUID IN DRILLING OPERATIONS, DRILLING FLUID AND ITS USE AKAKPO, DANY E 26d 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

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3672 2
2838 1
3615 1
1736 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19057565 SUBSEA SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERCONNECTING PRODUCING AND INJECTING WELLS IN PAIRS TO AN AGGREGATING COMPONENT SAYRE, JAMES G 3672 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Feb 19, 2025
18938628 METHOD FOR USING DRILLING FLUID IN DRILLING OPERATIONS, DRILLING FLUID AND ITS USE AKAKPO, DANY E 3672 §112 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Nov 06, 2024
18640673 SINUSOIDAL SINGLE-PHASE FREQUENCY INVERTER PEREZ, BRYAN REYNALDO 2838 §103 Non-Final OA 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
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 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jun 08, 2023

Managing Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras's Patent Portfolio?

IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.

Start Free Trial

Sign in with your work email

Enter your email to receive a magic link. No password needed.

Personal email addresses (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) are not accepted.

Free tier: 3 strategy analyses per month