Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 10 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days
Airbus Helicopters has 12 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 12 distinct examiners and 11 distinct art units, indicating complete examiner dispersion with limited technical grouping.
BUTLER, RODNEY ALLEN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Counsel should emphasize matter-specific preparation while using the small amount of art-unit overlap to check for consistent technical positions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (9%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (18%) |
| §103 only | 4 (36%) |
| §112 only | 2 (18%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (18%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUTLER, RODNEY ALLEN | 1 | 88.2% | +11.0% |
| LANE, DANIEL E | 1 | 3.8% | +8.3% |
| SHARIFI-TAFRESHI, KOOSHA | 1 | 78.3% | +9.6% |
| RIEGELMAN, MICHAEL A | 1 | 78.3% | +14.7% |
| RIOS-AGUIRRE, IZCALLI ANDRE | 1 | 78.8% | +19.5% |
| REITZ, MICHAEL K. | 1 | 69.1% | +5.1% |
| KHUU, IRENE C | 1 | 42.3% | +68.5% |
| SUNG, GERALD LUTHER | 1 | 79.9% | +28.6% |
| SUN, XIUQIN | 1 | 72.5% | +4.2% |
| LEE, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 64.0% | +25.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19332808 | FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM HAVING AN ELECTRIC ACTUATOR FOR CONTROLLING A HYDRAULIC SERVO CONTROL | BUTLER, RODNEY ALLEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18209183 | METHOD FOR TRAINING AT LEAST ONE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL FOR ESTIMATING THE WEIGHT OF AN AIRCRAFT DURING FLIGHT BASED ON USE DATA | LEE, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 23d overdue |
| 18135370 | PATH ESTIMATOR FOR DRONE | SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO | 29d |
| 18744866 | GROUND SERVICE DEVICE FOR SECURING ROTOR BLADES OF A ROTARY-WING AIRCRAFT | REITZ, MICHAEL K. | 50d |
| 19300532 | ENGINE FAILURE TRAINING METHOD FOR A SINGLE-ENGINE ROTORCRAFT | LANE, DANIEL E | — |
| 18399847 | METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE CYCLOSTATIONNARITY OF A VIBRATION SIGNAL RELATING TO A MECHANICAL SYSTEM, FOR ARRANGING VIBRATION SENSORS FOR MONITORING SUCH A SYSTEM, AND FOR MONITORING IT | SUN, XIUQIN | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18209183 | METHOD FOR TRAINING AT LEAST ONE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL FOR ESTIMATING THE WEIGHT OF AN AIRCRAFT DURING FLIGHT BASED ON USE DATA | LEE, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 23d overdue |
| 18442395 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENTERING AND EXITING AN ECONOMY OPERATING MODE FOR A TWIN-ENGINE AIRCRAFT | SUNG, GERALD LUTHER | 4d overdue |
| 18918226 | METHOD FOR MONITORING THE OPERATION OF A ROTORCRAFT POWER PLANT AND ASSOCIATED ROTORCRAFT | RIOS-AGUIRRE, IZCALLI ANDRE | 14d |
| 19332808 | FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM HAVING AN ELECTRIC ACTUATOR FOR CONTROLLING A HYDRAULIC SERVO CONTROL | BUTLER, RODNEY ALLEN | — |
| 18949233 | MECHANICAL SYSTEM PROVIDED WITH MOVING MECHANICAL ELEMENTS, A MAGNETIC PLUG AND A LUBRICATION SYSTEM PROVIDED WITH MECHANICAL AND MAGNETIC FILTERS | RIEGELMAN, MICHAEL A | — |
| 18596361 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSISTING THE PILOTING OF AN AIRCRAFT WITH A HEAD-UP DISPLAY | KHUU, IRENE C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3666 | 2 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 2628 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 3664 | 1 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2128 | 1 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19332808 | FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM HAVING AN ELECTRIC ACTUATOR FOR CONTROLLING A HYDRAULIC SERVO CONTROL | BUTLER, RODNEY ALLEN | 3666 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2025 |
| 19300532 | ENGINE FAILURE TRAINING METHOD FOR A SINGLE-ENGINE ROTORCRAFT | LANE, DANIEL E | 3715 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19179214 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING AN AIRCRAFT DISPLAY | SHARIFI-TAFRESHI, KOOSHA | 2628 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 18949233 | MECHANICAL SYSTEM PROVIDED WITH MOVING MECHANICAL ELEMENTS, A MAGNETIC PLUG AND A LUBRICATION SYSTEM PROVIDED WITH MECHANICAL AND MAGNETIC FILTERS | RIEGELMAN, MICHAEL A | 3654 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18918226 | METHOD FOR MONITORING THE OPERATION OF A ROTORCRAFT POWER PLANT AND ASSOCIATED ROTORCRAFT | RIOS-AGUIRRE, IZCALLI ANDRE | 3666 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18744866 | GROUND SERVICE DEVICE FOR SECURING ROTOR BLADES OF A ROTARY-WING AIRCRAFT | REITZ, MICHAEL K. | 3745 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 50d | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18596361 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSISTING THE PILOTING OF AN AIRCRAFT WITH A HEAD-UP DISPLAY | KHUU, IRENE C | 3664 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18442395 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENTERING AND EXITING AN ECONOMY OPERATING MODE FOR A TWIN-ENGINE AIRCRAFT | SUNG, GERALD LUTHER | 3741 | §112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
| 18399847 | METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE CYCLOSTATIONNARITY OF A VIBRATION SIGNAL RELATING TO A MECHANICAL SYSTEM, FOR ARRANGING VIBRATION SENSORS FOR MONITORING SUCH A SYSTEM, AND FOR MONITORING IT | SUN, XIUQIN | 2857 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18209183 | METHOD FOR TRAINING AT LEAST ONE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL FOR ESTIMATING THE WEIGHT OF AN AIRCRAFT DURING FLIGHT BASED ON USE DATA | LEE, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 2128 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 18135370 | PATH ESTIMATOR FOR DRONE | SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO | 3663 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Apr 17, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAirbus Helicopters has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 10 art units and 11 examiners.
Rodney Allen Butler has the most, with 1 of Airbus Helicopters's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.