Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vallourec S.A. has 6 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, indicating broad examiner dispersion with some art unit overlap. The portfolio therefore combines separate examiner relationships with recurring art unit contexts.
CASTELLON JR, MANUEL SALVADOR is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Because no examiner holds multiple pending matters in the available data, counsel should focus on matter-specific prosecution records while comparing actions assigned to the same art unit.
The art unit distribution can help organize review of technical and procedural patterns, but it does not replace individualized response preparation. Coordinated claim terminology may be useful across the semiconductor, circuit, and optics matters, subject to the distinct records for each action.
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 | 3 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOLLINGTON, JERMELE M | 1 | 86.3% | -15.3% |
| CASTELLON JR, MANUEL SALVADOR | 1 | 90.3% | +12.0% |
| RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | 1 | 54.5% | +27.8% |
| LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS | 1 | 90.0% | +12.5% |
| GRAY, PAUL J | 1 | 78.5% | +10.7% |
| STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18994903 | INSPECTION DEVICE FOR TUBULAR GOOD | HOLLINGTON, JERMELE M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18557395 | STEEL PIPE FOR OIL WELL | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 17d overdue |
| 18994923 | INSPECTION DEVICE FOR TUBULAR GOOD WITH ULTRASONIC SENSORS | CASTELLON JR, MANUEL SALVADOR | — |
| 18845741 | PROTECTOR FOR TUBULAR THREADED ELEMENTS | LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS | — |
| 18688957 | PROTECTOR FOR A THREADED END OF A TUBULAR COMPONENT | GRAY, PAUL J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18994923 | INSPECTION DEVICE FOR TUBULAR GOOD WITH ULTRASONIC SENSORS | CASTELLON JR, MANUEL SALVADOR | — |
| 18878494 | OIL-WELL METAL PIPE | RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | — |
| 18845741 | PROTECTOR FOR TUBULAR THREADED ELEMENTS | LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS | — |
| 18688957 | PROTECTOR FOR A THREADED END OF A TUBULAR COMPONENT | GRAY, PAUL J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 2 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18994903 | INSPECTION DEVICE FOR TUBULAR GOOD | HOLLINGTON, JERMELE M | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18994923 | INSPECTION DEVICE FOR TUBULAR GOOD WITH ULTRASONIC SENSORS | CASTELLON JR, MANUEL SALVADOR | 2855 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18878494 | OIL-WELL METAL PIPE | RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | 3679 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18845741 | PROTECTOR FOR TUBULAR THREADED ELEMENTS | LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18688957 | PROTECTOR FOR A THREADED END OF A TUBULAR COMPONENT | GRAY, PAUL J | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18557395 | STEEL PIPE FOR OIL WELL | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialVallourec S.A. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Jermele M Hollington has the most, with 1 of Vallourec S.A.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
