Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Thru Tubing Solutions Inc. operates within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently faces 6 pending office actions, which are distributed across 6 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests that the company is dealing with a variety of individual perspectives and examination styles at the patent office.
The prosecution activity is spread across 4 distinct art units, indicating that the company's innovations touch upon several different technical sub-specialties. WALLACE, KIPP CHARLES is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action, which is a portion of the total pending office actions currently active for the company.
For a practitioner, managing the 6 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units requires coordination. It is essential to ensure that technical arguments remain consistent even when presented to different examiners in various art units. The fact that WALLACE, KIPP CHARLES has only 1 busiest examiner pending office action suggests that the workload is not heavily concentrated on any individual, requiring attention to each of the pending office actions individually.
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 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALLACE, KIPP CHARLES | 1 | 78.3% | +25.5% |
| YAO, THEODORE N | 1 | 66.9% | +39.4% |
| HALL, KRISTYN A | 1 | 82.0% | -6.0% |
| CARROLL, DAVID P. | 1 | 80.2% | +14.1% |
| SAYRE, JAMES G | 1 | 84.0% | +12.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19304016 | MOBILE RIG TO WELL SECUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD | HALL, KRISTYN A | — |
| 19182258 | DISPLACEMENT OF A TUBULAR STRING THROUGH A WELLBORE | CARROLL, DAVID P. | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18891667 | COILED TUBING CONVEYED ELECTRICAL ORIENTER | SAYRE, JAMES G | 5d |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18891667 | COILED TUBING CONVEYED ELECTRICAL ORIENTER | SAYRE, JAMES G | 5d |
| 19445189 | PLUGGING DEVICE DEPLOYMENT IN SUBTERRANEAN WELLS | WALLACE, KIPP CHARLES | — |
| 19313527 | PROGRESSIVE CAVITY ASSEMBLY AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | YAO, THEODORE N | — |
| 19182258 | DISPLACEMENT OF A TUBULAR STRING THROUGH A WELLBORE | CARROLL, DAVID P. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3674 | 2 |
| 3672 | 2 |
| 3676 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19445189 | PLUGGING DEVICE DEPLOYMENT IN SUBTERRANEAN WELLS | WALLACE, KIPP CHARLES | 3674 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2026 |
| 19313527 | PROGRESSIVE CAVITY ASSEMBLY AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | YAO, THEODORE N | 3676 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2025 |
| 19304016 | MOBILE RIG TO WELL SECUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD | HALL, KRISTYN A | 3672 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2025 |
| 19182258 | DISPLACEMENT OF A TUBULAR STRING THROUGH A WELLBORE | CARROLL, DAVID P. | 3674 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 18891667 | COILED TUBING CONVEYED ELECTRICAL ORIENTER | SAYRE, JAMES G | 3672 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
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