Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tenaris Connections B V has 7 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are handled by 7 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution requires the company to manage 7 separate examiner relationships. The one-to-one ratio of 7 examiners to 7 actions means that no single examiner dominates the current prosecution landscape.
The portfolio is active across 5 distinct art units, which is a relatively high number of units for only 7 pending actions. Yanick A. Akaragwe is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. The spread across 5 art units suggests that the company's applications cover a variety of technical niches within the broader Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. This level of dispersion requires a flexible prosecution strategy to meet the specific requirements of 5 different technical groups at the USPTO. Practitioners should be prepared to address the individual styles of the 7 examiners while navigating the procedural nuances of the 5 distinct art units.
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 (14%) |
| §103 only | 3 (43%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AKARAGWE, YANICK A | 1 | 83.4% | +12.1% |
| PAL, PRINCE | 1 | 70.8% | +16.5% |
| BOCHNA, DAVID | 1 | 79.8% | +13.6% |
| OMGBA, ESSAMA | 1 | 59.2% | +32.9% |
| LU, HAOTIAN | 1 | 60.6% | +37.3% |
| CHARIOUI, MOHAMED | 1 | 81.1% | +12.8% |
| MAINI, RAHUL | 1 | 74.7% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19474471 | THREADED CONNECTION | AKARAGWE, YANICK A | 12d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18730273 | A THREADED PIPE CONNECTION | BOCHNA, DAVID | 71d overdue |
| 18717248 | PROTECTOR ASSEMBLY | OMGBA, ESSAMA | — |
| 18425782 | Tubular Installation Monitoring System and Method | CHARIOUI, MOHAMED | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18730273 | A THREADED PIPE CONNECTION | BOCHNA, DAVID | 71d overdue |
| 19474471 | THREADED CONNECTION | AKARAGWE, YANICK A | 12d |
| 18468215 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TESTING A PIPE | MAINI, RAHUL | 36d |
| 19163645 | PRESSURE VESSEL FOR STORING A PRESSURISED FLUID, SUCH AS HYDROGEN | PAL, PRINCE | — |
| 18717248 | PROTECTOR ASSEMBLY | OMGBA, ESSAMA | — |
| 18700896 | A PROTECTOR ASSEMBLY AND ASSOCIATED METHOD FOR PROTECTING A THREADED PIPE | LU, HAOTIAN | — |
| 18425782 | Tubular Installation Monitoring System and Method | CHARIOUI, MOHAMED | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3672 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19474471 | THREADED CONNECTION | AKARAGWE, YANICK A | 3672 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Oct 10, 2025 |
| 19163645 | PRESSURE VESSEL FOR STORING A PRESSURISED FLUID, SUCH AS HYDROGEN | PAL, PRINCE | 3735 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2025 |
| 18730273 | A THREADED PIPE CONNECTION | BOCHNA, DAVID | 3679 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 71d overdue | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18717248 | PROTECTOR ASSEMBLY | OMGBA, ESSAMA | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18700896 | A PROTECTOR ASSEMBLY AND ASSOCIATED METHOD FOR PROTECTING A THREADED PIPE | LU, HAOTIAN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18425782 | Tubular Installation Monitoring System and Method | CHARIOUI, MOHAMED | 2857 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18468215 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TESTING A PIPE | MAINI, RAHUL | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
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