Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Technipfmc Norge AS has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This indicates that the company's current pending matters are being reviewed independently by different personnel in separate technical divisions. This distribution requires the company to manage two distinct prosecution tracks, each with its own administrative and technical requirements.
LAMBE, PATRICK F is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 1 pending office action. With 2 total pending actions, the workload is divided equally between the 2 distinct examiners. The company must navigate different examiner perspectives across two separate art units in the mechanical systems field. Practitioners should tailor their approach to the specific tendencies of each examiner while ensuring that the overall strategy remains consistent with the company's goals in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area.
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%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAMBE, PATRICK F | 1 | 62.5% | +29.0% |
| PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 1 | 69.0% | +22.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19111518 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SUBSEA TEMPLATE SYSTEM WITH A TAIL PIPE AND A SUBSEA TEMPLATE SYSTEM | LAMBE, PATRICK F | 36d |
| 18998683 | LOCKING NUT AND ASSEMBLY THEREFOR | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3676 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19111518 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SUBSEA TEMPLATE SYSTEM WITH A TAIL PIPE AND A SUBSEA TEMPLATE SYSTEM | LAMBE, PATRICK F | 3676 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 18998683 | LOCKING NUT AND ASSEMBLY THEREFOR | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 3753 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialTechnipfmc Norge AS has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Patrick F Lambe has the most, with 1 of Technipfmc Norge AS's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
