Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
The current prosecution landscape for Airbus S.A.S. within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area is concentrated. There is currently 1 pending office action across the entire portfolio. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, indicating a narrow focus for active matters at this time.
The work is localized within 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner identified in the data is WOLDEMARYAM, ASSRES H, who is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This alignment between the total pending actions and the busiest examiner workload suggests that all current activity is consolidated under the same individual.
Practitioners should note that with only 1 pending office action, the immediate administrative burden is low. The presence of 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner means that prosecution strategies do not currently need to account for varying examiner behaviors or art unit specificities.
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) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, DEVANG R | 1 | 65.6% | +39.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19259880 | FRICTION STIR WELDING METHOD AND DEVICE, AS WELL AS WORKPIECE COMPRISING A BUTT WELD SEAM | PATEL, DEVANG R | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19259880 | FRICTION STIR WELDING METHOD AND DEVICE, AS WELL AS WORKPIECE COMPRISING A BUTT WELD SEAM | PATEL, DEVANG R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19259880 | FRICTION STIR WELDING METHOD AND DEVICE, AS WELL AS WORKPIECE COMPRISING A BUTT WELD SEAM | PATEL, DEVANG R | 1735 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2025 |
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