Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

BELL TEXTRON INC.

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (75%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (25%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (50%)
§102 only1 (25%)
No statute on record1 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
25% of docket
1
Information Tech
25% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
50% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W 1 74.1% +20.5%
SIMONE, CATHERINE A 1 73.2% +23.0%
PRUITT, JUSTIN A 1 62.5% +14.8%
DANGOL, ASHESH 1 69.3% +48.1%

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17089131 ZONED CONTACT BUSHING PRUITT, JUSTIN A 168d overdue
16915002 HYBRID PROPULSION SYSTEM FOR CONVERTIBLE AIRCRAFT DANGOL, ASHESH 78d overdue
18470662 Neural Network Supported Augmented Reality for Technician Support CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W 77d overdue
18464414 HONEYCOMB CORE SANDWICH PANELS SIMONE, CATHERINE A 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2117 1
1781 1
3745 1
3642 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18470662 Neural Network Supported Augmented Reality for Technician Support CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W 2117 §102 Non-Final OA 77d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2023
18464414 HONEYCOMB CORE SANDWICH PANELS SIMONE, CATHERINE A 1781 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Sep 11, 2023
17089131 ZONED CONTACT BUSHING PRUITT, JUSTIN A 3745 Final Rejection 168d overdue Pending Nov 04, 2020
16915002 HYBRID PROPULSION SYSTEM FOR CONVERTIBLE AIRCRAFT DANGOL, ASHESH 3642 §103 Non-Final OA 78d overdue Pending Jun 29, 2020

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