Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aecc Commercial Aircraft Engine Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 3 pending office actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that while the company's work is concentrated in a single technology area, the patent office has assigned the matters to multiple reviewers across 2 distinct art units. For a practitioner, this means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to the specific standards of the different technical groups.
The busiest examiner for Aecc Commercial Aircraft Engine Co. Ltd. is YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed, with each examiner handling an action. This means that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the company's current portfolio. Success for the company's 3 pending office actions depends on the independent evaluations of YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW and the other distinct examiners. Practitioners should focus on the individual tendencies of each examiner while navigating the requirements of the 2 distinct art units involved in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | 1 | 77.6% | +14.6% |
| CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 1 | 51.9% | +36.9% |
| STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17920552 | METHODS FOR PREPARING PREFABRICATED GAS PORE DEFECTS AND BUILT-IN GAS PORE DEFECTS, AND THEIR PREFABRICATED PARTS | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 7d |
| 18998162 | INLET CONE AND AERO-ENGINE COMPRISING SAME | YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18261000 | METHOD FOR REPAIRING AN ULTRA-THIN STRUCTURE BY ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 29d overdue |
| 18998162 | INLET CONE AND AERO-ENGINE COMPRISING SAME | YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 2 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18998162 | INLET CONE AND AERO-ENGINE COMPRISING SAME | YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | 3642 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18261000 | METHOD FOR REPAIRING AN ULTRA-THIN STRUCTURE BY ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 1733 | §112 | Final Rejection | 29d overdue | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 17920552 | METHODS FOR PREPARING PREFABRICATED GAS PORE DEFECTS AND BUILT-IN GAS PORE DEFECTS, AND THEIR PREFABRICATED PARTS | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1733 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Oct 21, 2022 |
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