Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Subsea 7 Limited has 4 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. DEAL, DAVID R is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The pending work is distributed across all listed examination assignments.
The portfolio requires structured coordination without assuming uniform treatment. Counsel should maintain consistent descriptions of transportation and mechanical concepts while analyzing each office action under its assigned examiner and art unit. The different technical settings may affect prior-art selection, claim construction, and the usefulness of particular amendments. A central review can identify recurring disclosure themes and prevent conflicting positions, but interview preparation and response drafting should remain tied to each matter’s specific objections and prosecution record.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEAL, DAVID R | 1 | 83.5% | +12.1% |
| GROSS, CARSON | 1 | 73.0% | +21.5% |
| CHIN, PAUL T | 1 | 71.6% | +15.7% |
| LAMBE, PATRICK F | 1 | 62.5% | +29.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18774256 | Subsea Installations Comprising Corrosion-Resistant Flowlines | DEAL, DAVID R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17781359 | Spreader Structures for Lifting Loads | CHIN, PAUL T | 62d |
| 17636567 | Subsea Umbilicals | LAMBE, PATRICK F | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18570738 | MANUFACTURE OF PIPELINES | GROSS, CARSON | 42d |
| 17781359 | Spreader Structures for Lifting Loads | CHIN, PAUL T | 62d |
| 18774256 | Subsea Installations Comprising Corrosion-Resistant Flowlines | DEAL, DAVID R | — |
| 17636567 | Subsea Umbilicals | LAMBE, PATRICK F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| 1746 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| 3676 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18774256 | Subsea Installations Comprising Corrosion-Resistant Flowlines | DEAL, DAVID R | 3753 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18570738 | MANUFACTURE OF PIPELINES | GROSS, CARSON | 1746 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 17781359 | Spreader Structures for Lifting Loads | CHIN, PAUL T | 3654 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | May 31, 2022 |
| 17636567 | Subsea Umbilicals | LAMBE, PATRICK F | 3676 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSubsea 7 Limited has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
David R Deal has the most, with 1 of Subsea 7 Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
