Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Avian Aerospace LLC is overseeing 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner, which reflects a singular point of contact for the company's current patent prosecution efforts. With 1 pending action active, the company is maintaining a low-volume but specific presence in this technical field at the patent office. This concentration suggests that the current legal strategy is focused on a single technical disclosure rather than a broad portfolio.
The prosecution is situated within 1 distinct art unit, ensuring that the technical evaluation is conducted by a single specialized group of examiners. JOHNSON, VICKY A is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Since this examiner oversees the assigned matter, the entirety of the company's immediate patent hurdles rests with this individual. This concentration requires the company to focus its legal arguments on the specific interpretations and prior art citations provided by this one examiner to move the application forward.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSON, VICKY A | 1 | 79.9% | +12.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18218573 | AIRCRAFT HAND CONTROLS | JOHNSON, VICKY A | 30d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18218573 | AIRCRAFT HAND CONTROLS | JOHNSON, VICKY A | 3617 | §102 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
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