Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 44 patents granted in the last 365 days
GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC currently manages 7 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct art units, showing a diverse technical range for a portfolio of this size. The prosecution involves 6 distinct examiners, which means that almost every one of the 7 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different person.
CHAU, ALAIN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 2 pending office actions currently under review. This is the only instance of examiner overlap, as the other 5 distinct examiners each handle a single action. The high ratio of 6 distinct examiners to 7 pending actions suggests that practitioners will face many different examination styles.
The 5 distinct art units further emphasize the breadth of the portfolio, requiring familiarity with many different technical groups at the USPTO. With 7 pending office actions in total, the workload is spread across both examiners and art units. Practitioners should prepare for individualized prosecution for each case, given that CHAU, ALAIN only oversees 2 of the pending matters. This distribution across 5 distinct art units necessitates a flexible strategy within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering 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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STONER, KILEY SHAWN | 1 | 80.8% | +15.4% |
| WONG, ELTON K | 1 | 78.2% | +18.9% |
| MEADE, LORNE EDWARD | 1 | 51.7% | +38.7% |
| CHAU, ALAIN | 1 | 80.6% | +25.5% |
| SHIAO, DAVID A | 1 | 75.5% | +30.9% |
| POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1 | 51.2% | +36.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19223008 | SYSTEM AND METHOD HAVING ISOTHERMAL COMBUSTION ALONG SET OF TURBINE BLADES VIA VARYING FLUID INJECTION ALONG SET OF TURBINE VANES | CHAU, ALAIN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18303254 | ALLOY COMPOSITIONS AND ARTICLES FORMED OF SUCH COMPOSITIONS | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 23d |
| 19450121 | POROUS METAL COUPON WITH BRAZE MATERIAL INFILTRATION BARRIER FOR REPAIRING COMPONENT, COMPONENT WITH SAME AND RELATED METHOD | STONER, KILEY SHAWN | — |
| 19346351 | MITIGATION OF ROTATING STALL IN TURBINE EXHAUST SECTION USING FLOW CONTROL VANES | WONG, ELTON K | — |
| 19237616 | TURBOMACHINE COOLING AND ALTERNATIVE FUEL SUPPLY | MEADE, LORNE EDWARD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18303254 | ALLOY COMPOSITIONS AND ARTICLES FORMED OF SUCH COMPOSITIONS | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 23d |
| 19450121 | POROUS METAL COUPON WITH BRAZE MATERIAL INFILTRATION BARRIER FOR REPAIRING COMPONENT, COMPONENT WITH SAME AND RELATED METHOD | STONER, KILEY SHAWN | — |
| 19346351 | MITIGATION OF ROTATING STALL IN TURBINE EXHAUST SECTION USING FLOW CONTROL VANES | WONG, ELTON K | — |
| 19237616 | TURBOMACHINE COOLING AND ALTERNATIVE FUEL SUPPLY | MEADE, LORNE EDWARD | — |
| 19223008 | SYSTEM AND METHOD HAVING ISOTHERMAL COMBUSTION ALONG SET OF TURBINE BLADES VIA VARYING FLUID INJECTION ALONG SET OF TURBINE VANES | CHAU, ALAIN | — |
| 19220181 | POWER PLANT HAVING A FLEXIBLE FIRM SKID | SHIAO, DAVID A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3741 | 2 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19450121 | POROUS METAL COUPON WITH BRAZE MATERIAL INFILTRATION BARRIER FOR REPAIRING COMPONENT, COMPONENT WITH SAME AND RELATED METHOD | STONER, KILEY SHAWN | 1735 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2026 |
| 19346351 | MITIGATION OF ROTATING STALL IN TURBINE EXHAUST SECTION USING FLOW CONTROL VANES | WONG, ELTON K | 3745 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2025 |
| 19237616 | TURBOMACHINE COOLING AND ALTERNATIVE FUEL SUPPLY | MEADE, LORNE EDWARD | 3741 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
| 19223008 | SYSTEM AND METHOD HAVING ISOTHERMAL COMBUSTION ALONG SET OF TURBINE BLADES VIA VARYING FLUID INJECTION ALONG SET OF TURBINE VANES | CHAU, ALAIN | 3741 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19220181 | POWER PLANT HAVING A FLEXIBLE FIRM SKID | SHIAO, DAVID A | 2836 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 18303254 | ALLOY COMPOSITIONS AND ARTICLES FORMED OF SUCH COMPOSITIONS | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1738 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialGE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Kiley Shawn Stoner has the most, with 1 of GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
