Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days
Yantai Jereh Oilfield Services Group Co., Ltd. currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners, which indicates that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution suggests that the company's prosecution experience is not concentrated under a single examiner's discretion.
The portfolio involves 3 distinct art units, showing technical variety within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. The busiest examiner, LEE, GEOFFREY S, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This means that even the most active examiner for the company only handles a fraction of the 4 pending office actions currently on the docket. For a practitioner, this diversity across 4 distinct examiners requires a multi-faceted strategy.
Managing 4 pending office actions across 3 distinct art units necessitates familiarity with several different examination styles. While LEE, GEOFFREY S is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, the overall workload is evenly distributed. This structure prevents any single examiner from having an outsized influence on the entirety of the Yantai Jereh Oilfield Services Group Co., Ltd. pending portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, GEOFFREY S | 1 | 60.6% | +20.0% |
| ZAKARIA, AKM | 1 | 82.6% | +16.1% |
| DOUNIS, LAERT | 1 | 67.8% | +20.7% |
| BUCK, MATTHEW R | 1 | 83.3% | +14.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18962928 | MOTOR MALFUNCTION MONITORING DEVICE, DRIVE MOTOR SYSTEM AND MOTOR MALFUNCTION MONITORING METHOD | ZAKARIA, AKM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18936367 | FRACTURING APPARATUS AND FRACTURING SYSTEM | BUCK, MATTHEW R | 79d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18936367 | FRACTURING APPARATUS AND FRACTURING SYSTEM | BUCK, MATTHEW R | 79d overdue |
| 18942017 | Fracturing Device | DOUNIS, LAERT | 18d overdue |
| 19072029 | CEMENTING EQUIPMENT AND CONTROL METHOD | LEE, GEOFFREY S | 36d |
| 18962928 | MOTOR MALFUNCTION MONITORING DEVICE, DRIVE MOTOR SYSTEM AND MOTOR MALFUNCTION MONITORING METHOD | ZAKARIA, AKM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 2 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19072029 | CEMENTING EQUIPMENT AND CONTROL METHOD | LEE, GEOFFREY S | 3746 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 18962928 | MOTOR MALFUNCTION MONITORING DEVICE, DRIVE MOTOR SYSTEM AND MOTOR MALFUNCTION MONITORING METHOD | ZAKARIA, AKM | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18942017 | Fracturing Device | DOUNIS, LAERT | 3746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18936367 | FRACTURING APPARATUS AND FRACTURING SYSTEM | BUCK, MATTHEW R | 3679 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 79d overdue | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
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