Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Airbus Defence and Space GmbH

9 pending office actions • 7 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
9
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

3
Life Sciences
33% of docket
1
Information Tech
11% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
11% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
44% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GREGORY, BERNARR E 1 90.5% +6.6%
HODAC, ERIC KHOI 1 83.8% +21.4%
MOORE, WHITNEY 1 88.3% +9.7%
AHMED, SHEEBA 1 80.6% +14.2%
COHEN, BRIAN W 1 54.2% +47.3%
LI, HARRISON 1 80.0% +34.6%
GOOD, KENNETH W 1 75.5% +25.4%
WANG, NICHOLAS A 1 53.9% +21.9%
SINGLETARY, MICHAEL J 1 82.7% +6.4%

Quick Wins (6)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17312325 ENVIRONMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM SINGLETARY, MICHAEL J 177d overdue
18086085 LOAD DISTRIBUTION AND ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES IN AIRCRAFT LI, HARRISON 72d overdue
18384587 COATING MATERIAL FOR A SURFACE OF AN AIRCRAFT WITH LIGHTNING PROTECTION AHMED, SHEEBA 66d overdue
18596958 METHOD FOR DETERMINING A POSITION OF A TRANSMITTER, AND SYSTEM HODAC, ERIC KHOI 60d overdue
19177120 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING GUIDED MISSILES, AND GUIDED MISSILE, AND AIRCRAFT GREGORY, BERNARR E 44d overdue
18540032 RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR SATELLITE-BASED OBSERVATION MOORE, WHITNEY 13d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17888967 NAVIGATION APPARATUS AND POSITION DETERMINATION METHOD GOOD, KENNETH W 74d overdue
18086085 LOAD DISTRIBUTION AND ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES IN AIRCRAFT LI, HARRISON 72d overdue
18384587 COATING MATERIAL FOR A SURFACE OF AN AIRCRAFT WITH LIGHTNING PROTECTION AHMED, SHEEBA 66d overdue
18596958 METHOD FOR DETERMINING A POSITION OF A TRANSMITTER, AND SYSTEM HODAC, ERIC KHOI 60d overdue
17560633 CR-RICH AL ALLOY WITH HIGH COMPRESSIVE AND SHEAR STRENGTH WANG, NICHOLAS A 22d overdue
18263950 DEVICE FOR PROVIDING A GAS COMPONENT AND VEHICLE COMPRISING SUCH A DEVICE COHEN, BRIAN W 13d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3648 3
3646 1
1787 1
1759 1
2195 1
1734 1
2857 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19177120 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING GUIDED MISSILES, AND GUIDED MISSILE, AND AIRCRAFT GREGORY, BERNARR E 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Apr 11, 2025
18596958 METHOD FOR DETERMINING A POSITION OF A TRANSMITTER, AND SYSTEM HODAC, ERIC KHOI 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Mar 06, 2024
18540032 RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR SATELLITE-BASED OBSERVATION MOORE, WHITNEY 3646 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Dec 14, 2023
18384587 COATING MATERIAL FOR A SURFACE OF AN AIRCRAFT WITH LIGHTNING PROTECTION AHMED, SHEEBA 1787 §103 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Oct 27, 2023
18263950 DEVICE FOR PROVIDING A GAS COMPONENT AND VEHICLE COMPRISING SUCH A DEVICE COHEN, BRIAN W 1759 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Aug 02, 2023
18086085 LOAD DISTRIBUTION AND ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES IN AIRCRAFT LI, HARRISON 2195 §103 Final Rejection 72d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2022
17888967 NAVIGATION APPARATUS AND POSITION DETERMINATION METHOD GOOD, KENNETH W 3648 §103 Final Rejection 74d overdue Pending Aug 16, 2022
17560633 CR-RICH AL ALLOY WITH HIGH COMPRESSIVE AND SHEAR STRENGTH WANG, NICHOLAS A 1734 §103 Final Rejection 22d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2021
17312325 ENVIRONMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM SINGLETARY, MICHAEL J 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 177d overdue Pending Jun 09, 2021

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