Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
PGS Geophysical A/S currently has 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are being handled by 3 distinct examiners, resulting in a unique examiner for every pending matter. This distribution suggests that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the portfolio's current trajectory. However, the actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the technical subject matter is specialized.
The busiest examiner is WALKER, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD, who is managing 1 pending office action. Because each of the 3 distinct examiners holds exactly 1 pending office action, WALKER, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD shares the busiest status with the other two. For practitioners, the concentration in a single art unit means that while they must adapt to three different examiner styles, they only need to navigate the specific internal policies and trends of 1 distinct art unit. This balance of examiner variety and art unit consistency defines the current prosecution environment for PGS Geophysical A/S. WALKER, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD is one of the 3 distinct examiners responsible for the company's interests.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
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, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD | 1 | 73.0% | +18.0% |
| PIHULIC, DANIEL T | 1 | 87.2% | -6.3% |
| SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER | 1 | 56.6% | +19.0% |
| ABULABAN, ABDALLAH | 1 | 71.3% | +13.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19050060 | Low Cross Feed Hydrophone and Method of Manufacture | PIHULIC, DANIEL T | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18390415 | Shot Point Dithering Techniques for Marine Seismic Surveys | ABULABAN, ABDALLAH | 66d overdue |
| 18600002 | DETERMINING ANGLE GATHERS FROM INVERSION OF VELOCITY AND REFLECTIVITY OF A SUBTERRANEAN FORMATION | SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18390415 | Shot Point Dithering Techniques for Marine Seismic Surveys | ABULABAN, ABDALLAH | 66d overdue |
| 19064360 | Irregular Nominal Shot Point Intervals for Cyclic Source Groups in Marine Seismic Surveys | WALKER, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD | — |
| 18600002 | DETERMINING ANGLE GATHERS FROM INVERSION OF VELOCITY AND REFLECTIVITY OF A SUBTERRANEAN FORMATION | SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 3 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19064360 | Irregular Nominal Shot Point Intervals for Cyclic Source Groups in Marine Seismic Surveys | WALKER, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19050060 | Low Cross Feed Hydrophone and Method of Manufacture | PIHULIC, DANIEL T | 3645 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 18600002 | DETERMINING ANGLE GATHERS FROM INVERSION OF VELOCITY AND REFLECTIVITY OF A SUBTERRANEAN FORMATION | SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER | 2857 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18390415 | Shot Point Dithering Techniques for Marine Seismic Surveys | ABULABAN, ABDALLAH | 3645 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPGS Geophysical A/S has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Christopher Richard Walker has the most, with 1 of PGS Geophysical A/S's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
