Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GmbH has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 3 actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, indicating that no single examiner is handling multiple pending cases for the company. The prosecution work is distributed across 2 distinct art units. This structure shows that while the technology is concentrated, the 3 distinct examiners provide a variety of perspectives on the pending applications.
ZOHOORI, COLIN NAYSAN MISHA is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that the workload is evenly split among the assigned officials. With 3 pending office actions spread across 2 distinct art units, there is a technical focus, yet the involvement of 3 distinct examiners necessitates individual attention to each case. Practitioners should coordinate their efforts to ensure that arguments remain consistent even when presented to different examiners within the same technology area. The use of 3 distinct examiners for only 3 pending matters suggests a lack of examiner-specific consolidation.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (100%) |
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% |
| ZOHOORI, COLIN NAYSAN MISHA | 1 | 69.8% | +30.7% |
| FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 1 | 63.4% | +73.3% |
| DUCKWORTH, BRADLEY | 1 | 72.4% | +20.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18808856 | AIRCRAFT WITH A FUEL STORAGE SYSTEM | ZOHOORI, COLIN NAYSAN MISHA | 80d overdue |
| 19539684 | A MEASUREMENT APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A VELOCITY OF A FLUID | BONNETTE, RODNEY ANDREW | — |
| 18664418 | BALL LOCK PIN WITH FAIL-SAFE LOCKING MECHANISM | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | — |
| 18414836 | CARGO HOOK DEVICE | DUCKWORTH, BRADLEY | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18808856 | AIRCRAFT WITH A FUEL STORAGE SYSTEM | ZOHOORI, COLIN NAYSAN MISHA | 80d overdue |
| 18664418 | BALL LOCK PIN WITH FAIL-SAFE LOCKING MECHANISM | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | — |
| 18414836 | CARGO HOOK DEVICE | DUCKWORTH, BRADLEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3647 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19539684 | A MEASUREMENT APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A VELOCITY OF A FLUID | BONNETTE, RODNEY ANDREW | 3647 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2026 |
| 18808856 | AIRCRAFT WITH A FUEL STORAGE SYSTEM | ZOHOORI, COLIN NAYSAN MISHA | 3642 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 80d overdue | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18664418 | BALL LOCK PIN WITH FAIL-SAFE LOCKING MECHANISM | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 3619 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18414836 | CARGO HOOK DEVICE | DUCKWORTH, BRADLEY | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
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