Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
The prosecution profile for General Electric Company Polska Sp Z O O shows 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for a matter. DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER is listed as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action.
While the examiners are all unique, they are grouped into 3 distinct art units. This suggests some technical overlap at the unit level despite the variety of individual examiners. With the 5 distinct examiners managing the pending office actions, the company faces a diverse range of individual examiner styles. However, the concentration into 3 distinct art units may allow for some consistency in the broader technical standards applied to the portfolio. Practitioners should prepare for separate examiner interactions while looking for commonalities within the art units that house these 5 pending office actions.
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 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 84.2% | +21.7% |
| NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE | 1 | 70.6% | +10.0% |
| KIM, TAE JUN | 1 | 64.0% | +25.7% |
| REITZ, MICHAEL K. | 1 | 69.2% | +4.2% |
| ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | 1 | 71.4% | +29.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18354005 | AIR-HEATED GUIDE VANE WITH TIP HEATING | REITZ, MICHAEL K. | 11d overdue |
| 19014361 | CONTROLLING EXCITATION LOADS ASSOCIATED WITH OPEN ROTOR AERONAUTICAL ENGINES | DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18650947 | FRAMEWORK FOR FLIGHT-BY-FLIGHT SEVERITY PREDICTION FOR AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS | NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE | — |
| 18357410 | GAS TURBINE ENGINE DEFINING A ROTOR CAVITY | KIM, TAE JUN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17980365 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO HEAT ROTOR BLADES | ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | 34d |
| 19014361 | CONTROLLING EXCITATION LOADS ASSOCIATED WITH OPEN ROTOR AERONAUTICAL ENGINES | DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18650947 | FRAMEWORK FOR FLIGHT-BY-FLIGHT SEVERITY PREDICTION FOR AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS | NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE | — |
| 18357410 | GAS TURBINE ENGINE DEFINING A ROTOR CAVITY | KIM, TAE JUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 2 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19014361 | CONTROLLING EXCITATION LOADS ASSOCIATED WITH OPEN ROTOR AERONAUTICAL ENGINES | DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER | 3745 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18650947 | FRAMEWORK FOR FLIGHT-BY-FLIGHT SEVERITY PREDICTION FOR AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS | NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18357410 | GAS TURBINE ENGINE DEFINING A ROTOR CAVITY | KIM, TAE JUN | 3799 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
| 18354005 | AIR-HEATED GUIDE VANE WITH TIP HEATING | REITZ, MICHAEL K. | 3745 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Jul 18, 2023 |
| 17980365 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO HEAT ROTOR BLADES | ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Nov 03, 2022 |
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