Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Pxgeo UK Limited currently has 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed among 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the portfolio is subject to multiple examiner perspectives while remaining within a narrow administrative scope. The use of 2 distinct art units for 3 pending office actions suggests that the examiners are concentrated within a limited number of administrative groups.
HAYES, JOVON E is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Since the 3 pending office actions are divided among 3 distinct examiners, no single examiner is handling more than one matter. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the 3 distinct examiners are concentrated in a way that provides a unified prosecution environment. Practitioners should be aware that the 3 distinct examiners may share insights or standards common to their respective 2 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAYES, JOVON E | 1 | 84.5% | +9.9% |
| ABULABAN, ABDALLAH | 1 | 71.0% | +14.1% |
| FIX, THOMAS S | 1 | 72.1% | +16.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19044926 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES OPERATED FROM SURFACE PLATFORMS FOR OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMIC NODES | HAYES, JOVON E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18427110 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES FOR OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMIC NODES | FIX, THOMAS S | 19d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18427110 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES FOR OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMIC NODES | FIX, THOMAS S | 19d |
| 18432356 | AUTONOMOUS SEISMIC NODE FOR THE SEABED | ABULABAN, ABDALLAH | 75d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 1 |
| 3618 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19044926 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES OPERATED FROM SURFACE PLATFORMS FOR OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMIC NODES | HAYES, JOVON E | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 18432356 | AUTONOMOUS SEISMIC NODE FOR THE SEABED | ABULABAN, ABDALLAH | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 75d | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18427110 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES FOR OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMIC NODES | FIX, THOMAS S | 3618 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
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