Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bombardier Inc. currently manages 5 pending office actions. These matters are situated in the Communications technology area. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. Jeffrey J Chow is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 4 pending actions.
This means that Jeffrey J Chow is responsible for the vast majority of the company's 5 pending office actions. The distribution across 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's Communications technology is being reviewed by two different specialized groups within the patent office. Practitioners should focus heavily on the preferences of Jeffrey J Chow, given their 4 pending actions. The involvement of only 2 distinct examiners for 5 pending office actions indicates a high concentration of the workload. This can lead to more consistent outcomes if the relationship with the examiners is positive. However, it also means that the company's current prosecution success is largely dependent on the decisions of just 2 distinct examiners. Managing these 5 pending office actions requires a targeted approach within the Communications area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHOW, JEFFREY J | 4 | 77.2% | +15.7% |
| CONLON, MARISA V | 1 | 41.2% | +37.2% |
| YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | 1 | 77.6% | +14.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18615260 | ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS FOR DEPLOYING A TRAILING EDGE FLAP OF AN AIRCRAFT | CONLON, MARISA V | 89d overdue |
| 17132260 | WINGLET SYSTEMS FOR AIRCRAFT | YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | 30d overdue |
| 19028514 | VISION GUIDANCE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AIRCRAFT | CHOW, JEFFREY J | — |
| 19027761 | VISION GUIDANCE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AIRCRAFT | CHOW, JEFFREY J | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18615260 | ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS FOR DEPLOYING A TRAILING EDGE FLAP OF AN AIRCRAFT | CONLON, MARISA V | 89d overdue |
| 17132260 | WINGLET SYSTEMS FOR AIRCRAFT | YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | 30d overdue |
| 19028514 | VISION GUIDANCE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AIRCRAFT | CHOW, JEFFREY J | — |
| 19027761 | VISION GUIDANCE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AIRCRAFT | CHOW, JEFFREY J | — |
| 19028565 | VISION GUIDANCE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AIRCRAFT | CHOW, JEFFREY J | — |
| 18769542 | VISION GUIDANCE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AIRCRAFT | CHOW, JEFFREY J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2618 | 1 |
| 3643 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19028514 | VISION GUIDANCE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AIRCRAFT | CHOW, JEFFREY J | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19027761 | VISION GUIDANCE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AIRCRAFT | CHOW, JEFFREY J | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19028565 | VISION GUIDANCE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AIRCRAFT | CHOW, JEFFREY J | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18769542 | VISION GUIDANCE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AIRCRAFT | CHOW, JEFFREY J | 2618 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18615260 | ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS FOR DEPLOYING A TRAILING EDGE FLAP OF AN AIRCRAFT | CONLON, MARISA V | 3643 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 89d overdue | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 17132260 | WINGLET SYSTEMS FOR AIRCRAFT | YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | 3642 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 23, 2020 |
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