Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Framatome Inc. manages 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Both pending actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner, KIL, JINNEY, and are located within 1 distinct art unit. As the sole examiner for these matters, KIL, JINNEY is the busiest examiner with 2 busiest examiner pending actions.
The concentration of 2 pending office actions under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a high degree of technical consistency in the company's current applications. For a practitioner, this means that the outcome of the entire pending portfolio depends on the decisions of KIL, JINNEY. The 2 pending office actions represent the total current workload for this entity at the office. This 2 to 1 ratio between the actions and the examiner simplifies the communication chain but increases the impact of that specific examiner's perspective.
Managing the 2 busiest examiner pending actions requires a strategy focused on the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. The presence of 1 distinct examiner across the portfolio ensures a consistent point of contact for the pending matters. The 1 distinct art unit involved suggests a narrow technical focus for the current applications. Practitioners should monitor the 2 pending office actions for developments that may affect the company's broader goals in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIL, JINNEY | 2 | 46.9% | +53.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17774534 | SELF-POWERED EXCORE DETECTOR ARRANGEMENT FOR MEASURING FLUX OF A NUCLEAR REACTOR CORE | KIL, JINNEY | 147d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17774534 | SELF-POWERED EXCORE DETECTOR ARRANGEMENT FOR MEASURING FLUX OF A NUCLEAR REACTOR CORE | KIL, JINNEY | 147d overdue |
| 18584512 | METHOD OF STABILIZING A LOWER END OF A THERMAL SHIELD SURROUNDING A CORE BARREL OF A NUCLEAR REACTOR | KIL, JINNEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3646 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18584512 | METHOD OF STABILIZING A LOWER END OF A THERMAL SHIELD SURROUNDING A CORE BARREL OF A NUCLEAR REACTOR | KIL, JINNEY | 3646 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 17774534 | SELF-POWERED EXCORE DETECTOR ARRANGEMENT FOR MEASURING FLUX OF A NUCLEAR REACTOR CORE | KIL, JINNEY | 3646 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 147d overdue | Pending | May 05, 2022 |
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