Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
GE Energy Power Conversion Technology Limited is currently navigating 5 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are spread across 4 distinct art units, showing that the company's technical developments interface with several different specialized groups at the USPTO. The presence of 4 distinct art units suggests a range of power conversion technologies being patented.
The prosecution of these 5 pending office actions involves 5 distinct examiners. REID JR, CHARLES H is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This lack of examiner overlap across the various art units requires the company to manage various examiner styles simultaneously. With REID JR, CHARLES H handling 1 pending office action, the company must address the unique feedback from each of the 5 distinct examiners across the different technical areas.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REID JR, CHARLES H | 1 | 69.0% | +24.3% |
| TAN, DING Y | 1 | 76.0% | +17.6% |
| HESTON, JUSTIN MICHAEL | 1 | 81.4% | +22.0% |
| EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 1 | 64.1% | +19.5% |
| BERHANE, ADOLF D | 1 | 88.4% | -1.8% |
| LEE, GEOFFREY S | 1 | 60.6% | +20.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18694671 | PROPULSORS | HESTON, JUSTIN MICHAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18628240 | MOUNTING ARRANGEMENTS | TAN, DING Y | 56d |
| 16923266 | MECHANICAL DRIVE SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED MOTOR COMPRESSOR | LEE, GEOFFREY S | 56d |
| 18433855 | ARC FURNACLE FACILITY | EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | — |
| 18517932 | HYBRID MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTER (HMMC) FOR HIGHLY DYNAMIC LOAD APPLICATIONS | BERHANE, ADOLF D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18629540 | ELECTRICAL MACHINES | REID JR, CHARLES H | 4d overdue |
| 18628240 | MOUNTING ARRANGEMENTS | TAN, DING Y | 56d |
| 16923266 | MECHANICAL DRIVE SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED MOTOR COMPRESSOR | LEE, GEOFFREY S | 56d |
| 18694671 | PROPULSORS | HESTON, JUSTIN MICHAEL | — |
| 18433855 | ARC FURNACLE FACILITY | EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 1 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| 3644 | 1 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18629540 | ELECTRICAL MACHINES | REID JR, CHARLES H | 2834 | §102 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
| 18628240 | MOUNTING ARRANGEMENTS | TAN, DING Y | 3632 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18694671 | PROPULSORS | HESTON, JUSTIN MICHAEL | 3644 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18433855 | ARC FURNACLE FACILITY | EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 18517932 | HYBRID MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTER (HMMC) FOR HIGHLY DYNAMIC LOAD APPLICATIONS | BERHANE, ADOLF D | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 16923266 | MECHANICAL DRIVE SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED MOTOR COMPRESSOR | LEE, GEOFFREY S | 3746 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Jul 08, 2020 |
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