Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Subsea 7 Do Brasil Servicos Ltda has 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and are located in distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each pending matter is being handled by a different examiner in a specialized group. The involvement of 2 distinct art units for the pending office actions suggests that the company's Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems applications cover diverse technical subjects.
The busiest examiner, WOOD, DOUGLAS S, is currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners for the pending office actions, the workload is split. Practitioners should note that the lack of concentration in a single art unit requires monitoring different examination trends. This structure for the 2 pending office actions ensures that each case is evaluated by a specialist in its respective field. The 1 pending office action assigned to the busiest examiner represents half of the current pending workload.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 1 | 78.2% | +11.6% |
| ANDRISH, SEAN D | 1 | 71.5% | +32.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18684352 | GUIDING FLEXIBLE PIPELINES ABOARD INSTALLATION VESSELS | ANDRISH, SEAN D | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18684352 | GUIDING FLEXIBLE PIPELINES ABOARD INSTALLATION VESSELS | ANDRISH, SEAN D | 33d |
| 18876121 | IMPROVING FATIGUE RESISTANCE OF STEEL CATENARY RISERS | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3672 | 1 |
| 3678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18876121 | IMPROVING FATIGUE RESISTANCE OF STEEL CATENARY RISERS | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 3672 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18684352 | GUIDING FLEXIBLE PIPELINES ABOARD INSTALLATION VESSELS | ANDRISH, SEAN D | 3678 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
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