Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
General Electric Deutschland Holding GmbH has 5 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. Each of these 5 actions is assigned to a different person among 5 distinct examiners. This creates a diversified prosecution landscape where individual examiner behavior is isolated to single cases.
The pending office actions are spread across 4 distinct art units, indicating that the semiconductor and optics work spans multiple technical niches. BONNETTE, RODNEY ANDREW is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This level of dispersion across 4 distinct art units requires the applicant to monitor various examination standards simultaneously for the 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BONNETTE, RODNEY ANDREW | 1 | 90.5% | +6.4% |
| TRUONG, THOMAS | 1 | 73.4% | +15.8% |
| VAZIRI, MASOUD | 1 | 73.8% | +8.0% |
| MEADE, LORNE EDWARD | 1 | 51.4% | +38.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19211514 | FUEL CELL SYSTEMS FOR AERONAUTICAL VEHICLES | BONNETTE, RODNEY ANDREW | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18602348 | ELECTRIC MACHINE WITH COOLING FEATURES | VAZIRI, MASOUD | 10d overdue |
| 18768586 | LAMINATES FOR A ROTOR OF AN ELECTRIC MACHINE | TRUONG, THOMAS | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18430755 | METHOD OF GENERATING POWER WITH AN ELECTRIC MACHINE | MEADE, LORNE EDWARD | 28d |
| 18768586 | LAMINATES FOR A ROTOR OF AN ELECTRIC MACHINE | TRUONG, THOMAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 2 |
| 3647 | 1 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19211514 | FUEL CELL SYSTEMS FOR AERONAUTICAL VEHICLES | BONNETTE, RODNEY ANDREW | 3647 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 18768586 | LAMINATES FOR A ROTOR OF AN ELECTRIC MACHINE | TRUONG, THOMAS | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18602348 | ELECTRIC MACHINE WITH COOLING FEATURES | VAZIRI, MASOUD | 2834 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18430755 | METHOD OF GENERATING POWER WITH AN ELECTRIC MACHINE | MEADE, LORNE EDWARD | 3741 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
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