Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
PGS Geophysical A/S currently has 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 2 actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, so each pending matter is reviewed by a different person. Both actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the technical subject matter is closely related despite the different examiners.
Christopher Richard Walker is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is one of the 2 pending office actions total for the company. Since both examiners are working within 1 distinct art unit, practitioners can expect a consistent set of technical standards. The presence of 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions ensures a variety of perspectives even within a single art unit.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
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 | 72.9% | +18.3% |
| PIHULIC, DANIEL T | 1 | 87.2% | -6.3% |
| ABULABAN, ABDALLAH | 1 | 71.0% | +14.1% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18390415 | Shot Point Dithering Techniques for Marine Seismic Surveys | ABULABAN, ABDALLAH | 66d overdue |
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 2 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 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 | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19050060 | Low Cross Feed Hydrophone and Method of Manufacture | PIHULIC, DANIEL T | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 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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