Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ge Aviation Systems Limited has 6 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The prosecution is spread across 6 distinct examiners, resulting in a count of actions that is equal to the count of examiners. These matters are distributed among 5 distinct art units, showing significant breadth in the technical classification of the pending applications. This variety suggests that the company's semiconductor and optics research is highly multi-disciplinary.
CHANG, JOSEPH is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The use of 6 different examiners for 6 actions suggests a decentralized prosecution strategy where no 1 examiner holds a majority of the pending cases. With 5 distinct art units involved, the company must manage a wide array of examiner perspectives and departmental standards. This distribution minimizes the impact that any 1 examiner has on the overall portfolio. Practitioners must navigate 5 different art unit cultures simultaneously.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHANG, JOSEPH | 1 | 89.8% | +3.9% |
| NGUYEN, TUYEN T | 1 | 81.6% | +1.2% |
| HOUSHMAND, HOOMAN | 1 | 55.5% | +23.0% |
| GIRMA, FEKADESELASS | 1 | 77.0% | +17.8% |
| REIDY, SEAN PATRICK | 1 | 36.8% | +37.3% |
| KOUSAR, SADIA | 1 | 65.6% | +11.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19215949 | METHOD AND POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM FOR GENERATING ELECTRICAL POWER | CHANG, JOSEPH | — |
| 18402357 | MAGNETIC COMPONENT AND METHOD OF FORMING | NGUYEN, TUYEN T | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18125425 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BATTERY MANAGEMENT | KOUSAR, SADIA | 29d overdue |
| 18941560 | ONBOARD MAINTENANCE SYSTEM CONFIGURATION GENERATION | REIDY, SEAN PATRICK | 8d 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18125425 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BATTERY MANAGEMENT | KOUSAR, SADIA | 29d overdue |
| 18941560 | ONBOARD MAINTENANCE SYSTEM CONFIGURATION GENERATION | REIDY, SEAN PATRICK | 8d overdue |
| 18472583 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A TIME-SENSITIVE NETWORK SCHEDULE | HOUSHMAND, HOOMAN | — |
| 19048654 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTION OF SMOKE AND ELECTRICAL COMPONENT FAILURE IN POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS | GIRMA, FEKADESELASS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2849 | 1 |
| 2465 | 1 |
| 2689 | 1 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19215949 | METHOD AND POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM FOR GENERATING ELECTRICAL POWER | CHANG, JOSEPH | 2849 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 18402357 | MAGNETIC COMPONENT AND METHOD OF FORMING | NGUYEN, TUYEN T | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2024 |
| 18472583 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A TIME-SENSITIVE NETWORK SCHEDULE | HOUSHMAND, HOOMAN | 2465 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 19048654 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTION OF SMOKE AND ELECTRICAL COMPONENT FAILURE IN POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS | GIRMA, FEKADESELASS | 2689 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 18941560 | ONBOARD MAINTENANCE SYSTEM CONFIGURATION GENERATION | REIDY, SEAN PATRICK | 3663 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18125425 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BATTERY MANAGEMENT | KOUSAR, SADIA | 2859 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 29d overdue | Pending | Mar 23, 2023 |
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