Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dassault Aviation currently has 8 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are spread across 7 distinct examiners, indicating a broad technical range for a portfolio of this size. For a practitioner, this means that the company must manage a variety of examiner styles, though there is some concentration of cases. The 8 pending office actions are distributed across 7 distinct art units, reflecting a wide technical range within the transportation and mechanical systems sector.
The busiest examiner is YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW, who is responsible for 2 pending office actions. This indicates that 2 of the 8 pending office actions are concentrated under a single individual. This concentration within 7 distinct art units suggests that while the technical areas are diverse, one examiner holds slightly more influence over the portfolio's success. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the historical rulings of YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW, as this examiner's decisions will have a notable impact on the overall success of the company's current patent portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | 2 | 77.8% | +14.3% |
| EL CHANTI, HUSSEIN A | 1 | 84.6% | +9.0% |
| WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT | 1 | 82.6% | +17.8% |
| SULLENS, TAVIA L | 1 | 49.8% | +46.9% |
| NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | 1 | 72.6% | +17.8% |
| COLLINS, DANIEL S. | 1 | 85.3% | +9.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18890220 | RECLINING AIRCRAFT SEAT STRUCTURE, AND ASSOCIATED AIRCRAFT CABIN | WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT | — |
| 18415055 | SERVOCONTROL FOR CONTROLLING THE POSITION OF A MOVING PART OF AN AIRCRAFT MADE IN TWO DISTINCT MATERIALS | COLLINS, DANIEL S. | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18903545 | AIRCRAFT DOOR MECHANISM | YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | 6d |
| 18613088 | AIRCRAFT FLUID MIXING SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED AIRCRAFT | SULLENS, TAVIA L | 33d |
| 19206040 | AIRCRAFT VISION SYSTEM WITH AN INCONSISTENCY DETECTION SYSTEM AND CORRESPONDING METHOD | EL CHANTI, HUSSEIN A | — |
| 18784833 | AIRCRAFT PORTION COMPRISING A CABIN TRIM PANEL | YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18903545 | AIRCRAFT DOOR MECHANISM | YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | 6d |
| 18415005 | SERVOCONTROL FOR CONTROLLING THE POSITION OF A MOVING PART OF AN AIRCRAFT | NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | 20d |
| 18613088 | AIRCRAFT FLUID MIXING SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED AIRCRAFT | SULLENS, TAVIA L | 33d |
| 18890220 | RECLINING AIRCRAFT SEAT STRUCTURE, AND ASSOCIATED AIRCRAFT CABIN | WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT | — |
| 18784833 | AIRCRAFT PORTION COMPRISING A CABIN TRIM PANEL | YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 2 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| 3636 | 1 |
| 3635 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19206040 | AIRCRAFT VISION SYSTEM WITH AN INCONSISTENCY DETECTION SYSTEM AND CORRESPONDING METHOD | EL CHANTI, HUSSEIN A | 4100 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 18903545 | AIRCRAFT DOOR MECHANISM | YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | 3642 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18890220 | RECLINING AIRCRAFT SEAT STRUCTURE, AND ASSOCIATED AIRCRAFT CABIN | WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT | 3636 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18784833 | AIRCRAFT PORTION COMPRISING A CABIN TRIM PANEL | YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | 3635 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18613088 | AIRCRAFT FLUID MIXING SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED AIRCRAFT | SULLENS, TAVIA L | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18415005 | SERVOCONTROL FOR CONTROLLING THE POSITION OF A MOVING PART OF AN AIRCRAFT | NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | 3745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
| 18415055 | SERVOCONTROL FOR CONTROLLING THE POSITION OF A MOVING PART OF AN AIRCRAFT MADE IN TWO DISTINCT MATERIALS | COLLINS, DANIEL S. | 3745 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialDassault Aviation has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
Ryan Andrew Yankey has the most, with 2 of Dassault Aviation's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
