Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 30 patents granted in the last 365 days
AeroVironment Inc. is currently managing 9 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 9 distinct examiners, meaning no examiner is currently handling multiple matters. The portfolio spans 6 distinct art units.
RODNEY ANDREW BONNETTE is listed as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. Because each of the distinct examiners holds exactly 1 action, the workload is evenly spread. The presence of 6 distinct art units for only 9 pending office actions suggests a high degree of technical variety in the company's recent filings across the transportation and mechanical sectors.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (22%) |
| §103 only | 3 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (33%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BONNETTE, RODNEY ANDREW | 1 | 90.5% | +6.4% |
| ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A | 1 | 59.0% | +20.6% |
| DANGOL, ASHESH | 1 | 69.1% | +51.1% |
| LANTZ, KARSTEN FOSTER | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| PHAM, ANNIE | 1 | 87.5% | +14.3% |
| WOLDEMARYAM, ASSRES H | 1 | 82.4% | +12.8% |
| GILLENWATERS, JACKSON N | 1 | 82.9% | +12.7% |
| PALL, CHARLES J | 1 | 54.4% | +17.9% |
| VAZQUEZ COLON, MARIA E | 1 | 73.1% | +13.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19022376 | AD HOC DYNAMIC DATA LINK REPEATER | WOLDEMARYAM, ASSRES H | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19310380 | Systems And Methods For Distributed Control Computing For A High Altitude Long Endurance Aircraft | ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A | — |
| 19245040 | FUSELAGE SPINE WITH MODULAR SECTIONS AND AERO SHELL | DANGOL, ASHESH | — |
| 19029452 | Methods and Systems for Cloud-Based Management of Images Captured by Aerial Vehicles | LANTZ, KARSTEN FOSTER | — |
| 19029329 | Voronoi Cropping of Images for Post Field Generation | PHAM, ANNIE | — |
| 18983665 | Method and System For Protecting a Rotatable Shaft of a Motor from Excessive Bending Moments | GILLENWATERS, JACKSON N | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17879405 | CAMERA BALL TURRET HAVING HIGH BANDWIDTH DATA TRANSMISSION TO EXTERNAL IMAGE PROCESSOR | VAZQUEZ COLON, MARIA E | 38d overdue |
| 18895055 | Method Of Managing A Fleet Of High Altitude Long Endurance Aircraft | PALL, CHARLES J | 4d overdue |
| 19310380 | Systems And Methods For Distributed Control Computing For A High Altitude Long Endurance Aircraft | ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A | — |
| 19245040 | FUSELAGE SPINE WITH MODULAR SECTIONS AND AERO SHELL | DANGOL, ASHESH | — |
| 19029329 | Voronoi Cropping of Images for Post Field Generation | PHAM, ANNIE | — |
| 19022376 | AD HOC DYNAMIC DATA LINK REPEATER | WOLDEMARYAM, ASSRES H | — |
| 18983665 | Method and System For Protecting a Rotatable Shaft of a Motor from Excessive Bending Moments | GILLENWATERS, JACKSON N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3642 | 2 |
| 3647 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| 2482 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19429552 | RIB MOUNTING FLANGES FOR AN UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE | BONNETTE, RODNEY ANDREW | 3647 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2025 |
| 19310380 | Systems And Methods For Distributed Control Computing For A High Altitude Long Endurance Aircraft | ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A | — | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2025 |
| 19245040 | FUSELAGE SPINE WITH MODULAR SECTIONS AND AERO SHELL | DANGOL, ASHESH | 3642 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19029452 | Methods and Systems for Cloud-Based Management of Images Captured by Aerial Vehicles | LANTZ, KARSTEN FOSTER | 3665 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19029329 | Voronoi Cropping of Images for Post Field Generation | PHAM, ANNIE | — | §101§102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19022376 | AD HOC DYNAMIC DATA LINK REPEATER | WOLDEMARYAM, ASSRES H | 3642 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18983665 | Method and System For Protecting a Rotatable Shaft of a Motor from Excessive Bending Moments | GILLENWATERS, JACKSON N | 3745 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18895055 | Method Of Managing A Fleet Of High Altitude Long Endurance Aircraft | PALL, CHARLES J | 3663 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 17879405 | CAMERA BALL TURRET HAVING HIGH BANDWIDTH DATA TRANSMISSION TO EXTERNAL IMAGE PROCESSOR | VAZQUEZ COLON, MARIA E | 2482 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Aug 02, 2022 |
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