Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

2
Hard (40%)
2
Medium (40%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (40%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (40%)
No statute on record1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
20% of docket
1
Information Tech
20% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
20% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
40% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
VAZIRI, MASOUD 1 73.3% +6.5%
CANTELMO, GREGG 1 74.7% +7.4%
COZART, JERMIE E 1 83.8% +3.2%
HOCKER, JOHN PAUL 1 57.1% +28.8%
HUTCHINSON, ALAN D 1 78.8% +16.9%

Quick Wins (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17643296 MANUFACTURING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING WORKPIECES COZART, JERMIE E

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18591407 BATTERIES, BATTERY COMPONENTS, AND RELATED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MITIGATING A THERMAL RUNAWAY EVENT OF A BATTERY CANTELMO, GREGG
17643286 PLANNING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING WORKPIECES HOCKER, JOHN PAUL

Interview Candidates (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18910138 TERRAIN FOLLOWING ALTITUDE PROFILE GENERATION FOR ROUTE PLANNING HUTCHINSON, ALAN D 17d overdue
17643286 PLANNING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING WORKPIECES HOCKER, JOHN PAUL

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2834 1
1725 1
3799 1
2189 1
3669 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18916502 ROTOR FOR ELECTRIC MOTOR VAZIRI, MASOUD 2834 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 15, 2024
18591407 BATTERIES, BATTERY COMPONENTS, AND RELATED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MITIGATING A THERMAL RUNAWAY EVENT OF A BATTERY CANTELMO, GREGG 1725 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 29, 2024
17643296 MANUFACTURING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING WORKPIECES COZART, JERMIE E 3799 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 08, 2021
17643286 PLANNING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING WORKPIECES HOCKER, JOHN PAUL 2189 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Dec 08, 2021
18910138 TERRAIN FOLLOWING ALTITUDE PROFILE GENERATION FOR ROUTE PLANNING HUTCHINSON, ALAN D 3669 Other Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Oct 09, 2024

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