Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Stiesdal Offshore A/S has 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each matter is reviewed by a different individual. This distribution allows for independent progress on each case without the influence of a single examiner's specific procedural habits. The prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused technical area for these pending matters.
AVILA, STEPHEN P is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 action represents 1 of the 2 pending office actions for the company. With 2 distinct examiners involved in 1 distinct art unit, the company is engaging with multiple reviewers within a single specialized department of the patent office. This provides a variety of examiner perspectives even within a concentrated technical area. This structure allows for independent progress on each matter while maintaining a consistent technical focus.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AVILA, STEPHEN P | 1 | 80.3% | +10.3% |
| ANDRISH, SEAN D | 1 | 71.5% | +32.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18954844 | Floating offshore support structure for a wind turbine and a method of its operation using adjustable-ballast reservoirs | AVILA, STEPHEN P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18865275 | METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING AN OFFSHORE SUPPORT STRUCTURE FOR A WIND TURBINE | ANDRISH, SEAN D | 20d |
| 18954844 | Floating offshore support structure for a wind turbine and a method of its operation using adjustable-ballast reservoirs | AVILA, STEPHEN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18954844 | Floating offshore support structure for a wind turbine and a method of its operation using adjustable-ballast reservoirs | AVILA, STEPHEN P | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18865275 | METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING AN OFFSHORE SUPPORT STRUCTURE FOR A WIND TURBINE | ANDRISH, SEAN D | 3678 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
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