Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
VETCO GRAY SCANDINAVIA AS maintains a portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company is currently managing 4 pending office actions. This level of activity represents the current engagement with the patent office across multiple filings in the engineering sector.
The examination process involves 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This one-to-one ratio between actions, examiners, and art units suggests that each filing covers a distinct technical niche within the broader engineering field. The presence of 4 distinct art units indicates that the portfolio spans several different classification categories.
LAW, NGA LEUNG V is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action currently assigned. Although this individual is the busiest, they only manage 1 of the 4 pending office actions. This distribution implies that the prosecution risk is spread across a variety of personnel rather than being concentrated under a single examiner.
Practitioners can observe that the workload is highly distributed. The involvement of 4 distinct examiners means that prosecution outcomes are subject to various internal styles. This variety in personnel may affect the overall consistency of the prosecution strategy across the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 (20%) |
| §103 only | 3 (60%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 1 | 56.7% | +20.7% |
| LETTMAN, BRYAN MATTHEW | 1 | 64.9% | +51.8% |
| LAMBE, PATRICK F | 1 | 62.4% | +28.9% |
| RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 1 | 58.6% | +59.2% |
| LOPEZ ALVAREZ, OLVIN | 1 | 48.9% | +43.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17755300 | REMOTELY OPERATED HORIZONTAL PIG LAUNCHER | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 36d overdue |
| 17310791 | CNC-PARAMETER GENERATING METHOD FOR AN AUTOMATED TUBE BENDING SYSTEM | LOPEZ ALVAREZ, OLVIN | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18114031 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CATHODIC PROTECTION BY DISTRIBUTED SACRIFICIAL ANODES | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 44d overdue |
| 17755300 | REMOTELY OPERATED HORIZONTAL PIG LAUNCHER | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 36d overdue |
| 18003626 | MODULAR COMPACT PUMP | LETTMAN, BRYAN MATTHEW | 18d overdue |
| 17995960 | SUBSEA PHASE-SEPARATION AND DENSE GAS REINJECTION BY USING A PUMP | LAMBE, PATRICK F | 4d overdue |
| 17310791 | CNC-PARAMETER GENERATING METHOD FOR AN AUTOMATED TUBE BENDING SYSTEM | LOPEZ ALVAREZ, OLVIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1717 | 1 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 2117 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18114031 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CATHODIC PROTECTION BY DISTRIBUTED SACRIFICIAL ANODES | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 1717 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
| 18003626 | MODULAR COMPACT PUMP | LETTMAN, BRYAN MATTHEW | 3746 | §103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Dec 28, 2022 |
| 17995960 | SUBSEA PHASE-SEPARATION AND DENSE GAS REINJECTION BY USING A PUMP | LAMBE, PATRICK F | 3679 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Oct 11, 2022 |
| 17755300 | REMOTELY OPERATED HORIZONTAL PIG LAUNCHER | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Apr 26, 2022 |
| 17310791 | CNC-PARAMETER GENERATING METHOD FOR AN AUTOMATED TUBE BENDING SYSTEM | LOPEZ ALVAREZ, OLVIN | 2117 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 24, 2021 |
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