Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
B/E Aerospace, Inc. manages 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These filings are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a concentrated technical focus for their current applications. The presence of 5 pending office actions suggests a steady stream of innovation being processed through the patent office's mechanical examination divisions. Navigating 2 distinct art units requires the company to be attentive to the specific standards of each group.
The prosecution involves 5 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is handled by a different individual. PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This distribution ensures that the company's active workload is spread across multiple examiners, with no single person responsible for more than one case. This arrangement allows for parallel progress on their applications within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area. Each of the active matters is assigned to 1 distinct examiner.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 1 | 26.8% | +45.4% |
| PATEL, ROHAN DEEP | 1 | 62.0% | +43.0% |
| PHILIPS, BRADLEY H | 1 | 67.5% | +30.9% |
| TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | 1 | 49.5% | +47.6% |
| DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | 1 | 57.6% | +49.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17222452 | EMERGENCY OXYGEN SYSTEM FOR AIRCRAFT PASSENGERS | DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | 189d overdue |
| 18742876 | MODULAR SUPPORT FRAMEWORK FOR AN AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY SYSTEM, AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY SYSTEM, AND AIRCRAFT COMPRISING AN AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY SYSTEM | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | — |
| 18312902 | AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY DEVICE, AIRCRAFT COMPRISING SUCH AN EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY DEVICE, AND METHOD OF OPERATING AN AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY DEVICE | PHILIPS, BRADLEY H | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17222452 | EMERGENCY OXYGEN SYSTEM FOR AIRCRAFT PASSENGERS | DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | 189d overdue |
| 18742876 | MODULAR SUPPORT FRAMEWORK FOR AN AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY SYSTEM, AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY SYSTEM, AND AIRCRAFT COMPRISING AN AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY SYSTEM | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | — |
| 18458515 | AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY SYSTEM, AIRCRAFT COMPRISING SUCH AN EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF OPERATING AN AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY SYSTEM | PATEL, ROHAN DEEP | — |
| 18312902 | AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY DEVICE, AIRCRAFT COMPRISING SUCH AN EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY DEVICE, AND METHOD OF OPERATING AN AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY DEVICE | PHILIPS, BRADLEY H | — |
| 17712990 | Passenger Oxygen Mask for Use in an Aircraft, Emergency Oxygen System, and Aircraft | TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 4 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18742876 | MODULAR SUPPORT FRAMEWORK FOR AN AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY SYSTEM, AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY SYSTEM, AND AIRCRAFT COMPRISING AN AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY SYSTEM | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 3785 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18458515 | AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY SYSTEM, AIRCRAFT COMPRISING SUCH AN EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF OPERATING AN AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY SYSTEM | PATEL, ROHAN DEEP | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
| 18312902 | AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY DEVICE, AIRCRAFT COMPRISING SUCH AN EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY DEVICE, AND METHOD OF OPERATING AN AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY DEVICE | PHILIPS, BRADLEY H | 3799 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
| 17712990 | Passenger Oxygen Mask for Use in an Aircraft, Emergency Oxygen System, and Aircraft | TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2022 |
| 17222452 | EMERGENCY OXYGEN SYSTEM FOR AIRCRAFT PASSENGERS | DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | 3785 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 189d overdue | Pending | Apr 05, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialB/E Aerospace, Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 5 examiners.
Jacqueline M Pinderski has the most, with 1 of B/E Aerospace, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
