Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Subsea 7 Limited manages 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, indicating that each examiner is currently reviewing a single application. This distribution across 3 distinct examiners suggests that the company must prepare for 3 different examination styles within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. A practitioner must monitor 3 separate prosecution timelines simultaneously.
The portfolio is active across 2 distinct art units, which is fewer than the 3 distinct examiners involved. FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, which is 1 of the 3 pending office actions currently facing the company. Because the busiest examiner only has 1 pending office action, the workload is evenly spread, and no single examiner has a dominant influence over the 3 pending office actions. Practitioners should note that while the 3 distinct examiners are separate, they are concentrated within only 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 1 | 73.9% | +7.4% |
| TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 1 | 70.1% | +32.2% |
| COLLINS, DANIEL S. | 1 | 85.2% | +9.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17414291 | Long-Distance Transmission of Power Underwater | COLLINS, DANIEL S. | 5d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18719213 | INSTALLATION AND REMOVAL OF SUBSEA FOUNDATIONS | FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 45d overdue |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18268243 | Storage of Fluids Underwater | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3678 | 2 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18719213 | INSTALLATION AND REMOVAL OF SUBSEA FOUNDATIONS | FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 3678 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18268243 | Storage of Fluids Underwater | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 3678 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2023 |
| 17414291 | Long-Distance Transmission of Power Underwater | COLLINS, DANIEL S. | 3745 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Jun 15, 2021 |
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