Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
B/E Aerospace, Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 3 examiners across 2 art units, indicating some art-unit concentration but no repeated examiner assignment.
BASTIANELLI, JOHN is the listed busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate positions across the portfolio while tailoring responses to the two examination groups.
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 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BASTIANELLI, JOHN | 1 | 73.4% | +28.2% |
| WEYDEMEYER, ALICIA JANE | 1 | 46.2% | +28.0% |
| UPCHURCH, DAVID M | 1 | 73.7% | +18.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18920646 | DRAIN VALVE ASSEMBLY | BASTIANELLI, JOHN | 40d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18920646 | DRAIN VALVE ASSEMBLY | BASTIANELLI, JOHN | 40d |
| 18799716 | PANELS | WEYDEMEYER, ALICIA JANE | — |
| 18763906 | COMPOSITE PANEL WITH A THREADED INSERT | UPCHURCH, DAVID M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18920646 | DRAIN VALVE ASSEMBLY | BASTIANELLI, JOHN | 3753 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18799716 | PANELS | WEYDEMEYER, ALICIA JANE | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18763906 | COMPOSITE PANEL WITH A THREADED INSERT | UPCHURCH, DAVID M | 3677 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialB/E Aerospace, Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
John Bastianelli 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.
