Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
12 pending office actions • 7 clients • 12 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Bracewell LLP focuses on Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The firm has a career history of 4467 applications. Currently, there are 9 pending office actions, indicating a small current workload relative to its total career volume.
The firm achieves a high resolved allowance rate of 93.02 percent. This is reached with an average of 3.12 office actions per allowance. This suggests an effective prosecution strategy that balances a high success rate with a moderate number of interactions with the patent office. The 93.02 percent allowance rate is a strong indicator of the firm's capability in the transportation and mechanical sectors. With only 9 pending actions, the firm's current active prosecution is focused on a small subset of its overall portfolio. Practitioners can use the 3.12 average and the 4467 career applications to set expectations for the prosecution timeline and success probability in these technology areas.
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 | 5 (42%) |
| §103 only | 4 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FREJD, RUSSELL WARREN | 1 | 91.4% | +7.3% |
| WALKER, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD | 1 | 72.9% | +18.3% |
| TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 1 | 83.1% | +10.5% |
| AHMED, ISTIAQUE | 1 | 69.5% | +20.5% |
| PARK, HYUN D | 1 | 41.7% | +22.8% |
| BRYANT, CHRISTIAN THOMAS | 1 | 80.6% | +23.5% |
| BACA, MATTHEW WALTER | 1 | 72.2% | +5.7% |
| LAU, TUNG S | 1 | 83.0% | +14.5% |
| HENSON, MISCHITA L | 1 | 75.9% | +15.0% |
| CHARIOUI, MOHAMED | 1 | 81.1% | +12.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19011171 | MOTION MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MEASURING MOTION OF A WHEEL | FREJD, RUSSELL WARREN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18924302 | THERMAL SENSOR ARRAY DEVICE, METHOD OF MEASURING A TEMPERATURE GRADIENT AND METHOD OF MEASURING A TEMPERATURE | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | — |
| 18719109 | SUBSEA MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, METHOD OF COMPRESSSING MEASUREMENT DATA AND METHOD OF PROVIDING INTER-COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN APPARATUS | PARK, HYUN D | — |
| 18655797 | COUPLING NATURAL FRACTURE NETWORK TO A SINGLE MEDIA FOR RESERVOIR NUMERICAL SIMULATION | BRYANT, CHRISTIAN THOMAS | — |
| 18612932 | ACOUSTIC FLUID DENSITY DETERMINATION FOR GEOMETRICALLY COMPLEX FLOW CELLS | LAU, TUNG S | — |
| 18587213 | ACCURATE PREDICTION OF GAS HYDRATE FORMATION CONDITIONS WITH ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS (ANN) AND MULTILAYER PERCEPTRONS (MLPS) | HENSON, MISCHITA L | — |
| 18425782 | Tubular Installation Monitoring System and Method | CHARIOUI, MOHAMED | — |
| 18392565 | Automatically Populating Shopping Cart from Electronic Shopping List | SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19010927 | System and Method for Three-Dimensional Efficient Data-Driven Internal Multiple Elimination for Wide Azimuth Dataset | WALKER, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD | — |
| 18924302 | THERMAL SENSOR ARRAY DEVICE, METHOD OF MEASURING A TEMPERATURE GRADIENT AND METHOD OF MEASURING A TEMPERATURE | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | — |
| 18758274 | REMOTE REALTIME MONITORING OF AN INDUSTRIAL VENTING SYSTEM | AHMED, ISTIAQUE | — |
| 18719109 | SUBSEA MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, METHOD OF COMPRESSSING MEASUREMENT DATA AND METHOD OF PROVIDING INTER-COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN APPARATUS | PARK, HYUN D | — |
| 18655797 | COUPLING NATURAL FRACTURE NETWORK TO A SINGLE MEDIA FOR RESERVOIR NUMERICAL SIMULATION | BRYANT, CHRISTIAN THOMAS | — |
| 18612932 | ACOUSTIC FLUID DENSITY DETERMINATION FOR GEOMETRICALLY COMPLEX FLOW CELLS | LAU, TUNG S | — |
| 18587213 | ACCURATE PREDICTION OF GAS HYDRATE FORMATION CONDITIONS WITH ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS (ANN) AND MULTILAYER PERCEPTRONS (MLPS) | HENSON, MISCHITA L | — |
| 18425782 | Tubular Installation Monitoring System and Method | CHARIOUI, MOHAMED | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Saudi Aramco | 5 |
| Melexis Technologies S.A. | 2 |
| Onpoint Industrial Services, LLC | 1 |
| Sonardyne International Limited | 1 |
| Baker Hughes | 1 |
| TENARIS CONNECTIONS B.V. | 1 |
| Cabaire, LLC | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 3688 | 1 |
| 2186 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19011171 | MOTION MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MEASURING MOTION OF A WHEEL | Melexis Technologies SA | FREJD, RUSSELL WARREN | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 | |
| 19010927 | System and Method for Three-Dimensional Efficient Data-Driven Internal Multiple Elimination for Wide Azimuth Dataset | Saudi Arabian Oil Company | WALKER, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18924302 | THERMAL SENSOR ARRAY DEVICE, METHOD OF MEASURING A TEMPERATURE GRADIENT AND METHOD OF MEASURING A TEMPERATURE | Melexis Technologies NV | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 | |
| 18758274 | REMOTE REALTIME MONITORING OF AN INDUSTRIAL VENTING SYSTEM | Onpoint Industrial Services, LLC | AHMED, ISTIAQUE | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 | |
| 18719109 | SUBSEA MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, METHOD OF COMPRESSSING MEASUREMENT DATA AND METHOD OF PROVIDING INTER-COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN APPARATUS | Sonardyne International Limited | PARK, HYUN D | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 | |
| 18655797 | COUPLING NATURAL FRACTURE NETWORK TO A SINGLE MEDIA FOR RESERVOIR NUMERICAL SIMULATION | Saudi Arabian Oil Company | BRYANT, CHRISTIAN THOMAS | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2024 | |
| 18652407 | SELF-SUPERVISED VELOCITY MODEL BUILDING WITH UPHOLES AND REFRACTION TRAVEL TIME DATA | Saudi Arabian Oil Company | BACA, MATTHEW WALTER | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 | |
| 18612932 | ACOUSTIC FLUID DENSITY DETERMINATION FOR GEOMETRICALLY COMPLEX FLOW CELLS | BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC | LAU, TUNG S | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 | |
| 18587213 | ACCURATE PREDICTION OF GAS HYDRATE FORMATION CONDITIONS WITH ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS (ANN) AND MULTILAYER PERCEPTRONS (MLPS) | Saudi Arabian Oil Company | HENSON, MISCHITA L | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 | |
| 18425782 | Tubular Installation Monitoring System and Method | Tenaris Connections B.V. | CHARIOUI, MOHAMED | 2857 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18392565 | Automatically Populating Shopping Cart from Electronic Shopping List | Cabaire, LLC | SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B | 3688 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 17721064 | Identifying Naturally Fractured Sweet Spots Using a Fracture Density Index (FDI) | Saudi Arabian Oil Company | DEBNATH, NUPUR | 2186 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2022 |
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