Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Subsea 7 Limited is currently navigating 6 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are spread across 4 distinct art units, indicating the technical classifications for the company applications. The 6 pending office actions represent the current workload for the applicant in this specific technology sector.
The prosecution involves 6 distinct examiners, meaning each of the 6 pending office actions is assigned to a different individual. This ratio between examiners and actions requires the applicant to manage several different examiner perspectives simultaneously. The 4 distinct art units involved further suggest the technical focus within the Chemistry & Materials area.
TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is currently responsible for 1 pending office action. Because every examiner is assigned exactly 1 pending office action, the workload is distributed across the 6 distinct examiners identified in the data.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (17%) |
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 1 | 70.1% | +32.2% |
| DEAL, DAVID R | 1 | 83.5% | +12.1% |
| ORANGE, DAVID BENJAMIN | 1 | 32.1% | +28.8% |
| ROY, DEBJANI | 1 | 75.8% | +15.1% |
| GROSS, CARSON | 1 | 73.1% | +21.3% |
| LAMBE, PATRICK F | 1 | 62.4% | +28.9% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18696434 | CAPTURING DATA RELATING TO WELDED PIPELINES | ORANGE, DAVID BENJAMIN | 24d overdue |
| 19103561 | INSTALLATION OF SUCTION PILES UNDERWATER | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | — |
| 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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18696434 | CAPTURING DATA RELATING TO WELDED PIPELINES | ORANGE, DAVID BENJAMIN | 24d overdue |
| 18691918 | VENTS IN PIPELINE LINERS | ROY, DEBJANI | 3d overdue |
| 18570738 | MANUFACTURE OF PIPELINES | GROSS, CARSON | 42d |
| 19103561 | INSTALLATION OF SUCTION PILES UNDERWATER | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | — |
| 18774256 | Subsea Installations Comprising Corrosion-Resistant Flowlines | DEAL, DAVID R | — |
| 17636567 | Subsea Umbilicals | LAMBE, PATRICK F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2663 | 1 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| 1746 | 1 |
| 3676 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19103561 | INSTALLATION OF SUCTION PILES UNDERWATER | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 18774256 | Subsea Installations Comprising Corrosion-Resistant Flowlines | DEAL, DAVID R | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18696434 | CAPTURING DATA RELATING TO WELDED PIPELINES | ORANGE, DAVID BENJAMIN | 2663 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18691918 | VENTS IN PIPELINE LINERS | ROY, DEBJANI | 1741 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18570738 | MANUFACTURE OF PIPELINES | GROSS, CARSON | 1746 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 17636567 | Subsea Umbilicals | LAMBE, PATRICK F | 3676 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2022 |
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