Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Technip N-Power manages 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These are assigned to 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. NGUYEN, CHAU N is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, which is one of the 2 pending office actions currently active for the company.
The distribution of 2 pending office actions among 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's filings are being reviewed independently. Each of the 2 distinct examiners is responsible for 1 pending office action, so no single individual dominates the prosecution workload. The involvement of 2 distinct art units indicates that the applications fall into different specialized categories within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field.
Practitioners must manage different examination styles across 2 distinct art units to resolve the 2 pending office actions. Since NGUYEN, CHAU N is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, the strategy should be tailored to the specific expectations of each of the 2 distinct examiners. This balanced workload across 2 art units ensures that the company's intellectual property pursuit is not limited to a single examination group.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, CHAU N | 1 | 68.0% | +14.1% |
| DURDEN, RICHARD KYLE | 1 | 60.9% | +29.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18256576 | PIPELINE JUNCTION COATING | DURDEN, RICHARD KYLE | 4d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18256576 | PIPELINE JUNCTION COATING | DURDEN, RICHARD KYLE | 4d overdue |
| 18258463 | UMBILICAL | NGUYEN, CHAU N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2841 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18258463 | UMBILICAL | NGUYEN, CHAU N | 2841 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 18256576 | PIPELINE JUNCTION COATING | DURDEN, RICHARD KYLE | 3753 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialTechnip N-Power has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Chau N Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Technip N-Power's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
