Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Airbus S.A.S. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These 2 actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for exactly 1 pending matter. The prosecution is also split across 2 distinct art units, which suggests that the 2 pending applications involve different specialized sub-fields.
COURTNEY P SPANN is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Given that there are only 2 pending actions in total, the workload is evenly split between the 2 distinct examiners. This distribution ensures that no single examiner or art unit has a dominant role in the company's current patent prosecution. Practitioners can expect 2 separate tracks of communication, each governed by the specific standards of the 2 different art units involved.
The 1:1 ratio of 2 pending office actions to 2 distinct examiners indicates that there is no overlap in the review process for this portfolio. Courtney P Spann and the other examiner will each provide independent feedback based on the requirements of their respective 2 distinct art units. This structure requires practitioners to manage 2 distinct prosecution strategies simultaneously. The limited number of pending actions allows for a highly focused approach to each individual case within the software sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPANN, COURTNEY P | 1 | 79.7% | +22.8% |
| WOLDEMARYAM, ASSRES H | 1 | 82.2% | +13.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18615336 | STORAGE TANK FOR LIQUIFIED GAS, AIRCRAFT OR SPACECRAFT COMPRISING SUCH A STORAGE TANK, AND FIBER METAL LAMINATES | WOLDEMARYAM, ASSRES H | 44d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18615336 | STORAGE TANK FOR LIQUIFIED GAS, AIRCRAFT OR SPACECRAFT COMPRISING SUCH A STORAGE TANK, AND FIBER METAL LAMINATES | WOLDEMARYAM, ASSRES H | 44d overdue |
| 19249250 | Method, Computer Program, Computer-Readable Data Carrier And Computing Device For Deterministic Execution Of An Instruction Set As Well As Apparatus Comprising Same | SPANN, COURTNEY P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2183 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19249250 | Method, Computer Program, Computer-Readable Data Carrier And Computing Device For Deterministic Execution Of An Instruction Set As Well As Apparatus Comprising Same | SPANN, COURTNEY P | 2183 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 18615336 | STORAGE TANK FOR LIQUIFIED GAS, AIRCRAFT OR SPACECRAFT COMPRISING SUCH A STORAGE TANK, AND FIBER METAL LAMINATES | WOLDEMARYAM, ASSRES H | 3642 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAirbus S.A.S. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Courtney P Spann has the most, with 1 of Airbus S.A.S.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
