Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 37 patents granted in the last 365 days
GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC manages a portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, currently featuring 5 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners. This distribution means that the pending matters are being reviewed by multiple individuals. The portfolio's technical scope is spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating that the infrastructure technologies involved touch upon several different mechanical or medical engineering classifications.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is CHAU, ALAIN, who is currently handling 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. With a total of 5 pending office actions, this examiner is responsible for a significant portion of the active workload. The involvement of 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units suggests a need for a coordinated prosecution strategy that can adapt to different examiner styles. While the portfolio is not extremely large, the distribution across 3 distinct art units requires practitioners to be familiar with the specific nuances of multiple technical groups at the USPTO. The concentration of 2 busiest examiner pending office actions under the busiest examiner provides a slight centralization in an otherwise distributed set of 5 pending office actions.
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 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAU, ALAIN | 2 | 80.5% | +26.0% |
| MEADE, LORNE EDWARD | 1 | 51.4% | +38.7% |
| ORTIZ, ELIM | 1 | 79.1% | +23.1% |
| POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1 | 51.3% | +36.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19369987 | INTEGRATION SYSTEMS FOR GAS TURBINE ENGINES AND METHODS OF USE | CHAU, ALAIN | — |
| 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18303254 | ALLOY COMPOSITIONS AND ARTICLES FORMED OF SUCH COMPOSITIONS | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 23d |
| 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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18303254 | ALLOY COMPOSITIONS AND ARTICLES FORMED OF SUCH COMPOSITIONS | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 23d |
| 19369987 | INTEGRATION SYSTEMS FOR GAS TURBINE ENGINES AND METHODS OF USE | CHAU, ALAIN | — |
| 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 | — |
| 19121103 | IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO BIPOLE POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS | ORTIZ, ELIM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3741 | 2 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19369987 | INTEGRATION SYSTEMS FOR GAS TURBINE ENGINES AND METHODS OF USE | CHAU, ALAIN | 3741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 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 | — | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19121103 | IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO BIPOLE POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS | ORTIZ, ELIM | 2836 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 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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