Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
General Electric Technology GmbH has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split across 2 distinct art units, indicating some technical breadth within this sector. The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners, so each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution across 3 distinct examiners requires the company to manage three separate examiner relationships.
The busiest examiner is GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 3 pending actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly distributed. The company must manage 3 separate examiner relationships across 2 distinct art units, requiring a strategy that accounts for the specific feedback of each individual examiner. Practitioners should note that each of the 3 pending office actions is being handled by a unique examiner, which may lead to different prosecution outcomes across the 2 distinct art units.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL | 1 | 69.9% | +45.3% |
| REITZ, MICHAEL K. | 1 | 69.2% | +4.2% |
| SCHALLHORN, TYLER J | 1 | 35.6% | +14.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19151139 | A STEAM TURBINE, A POWER PLANT AND A SMALL MODULAR REACTOR COMPRISING THE TURBINE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OR SERVICING OF SAID TURBINE | GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL | — |
| 19139721 | A STEAM TURBINE AND A USE OF THE STEAM TURBINE, A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OR SERVICING OF SAID STEAM TURBINE, A SMALL-MODULAR REACTOR AND A POWER PLANT INCLUDING SAID STEAM TURBINE | REITZ, MICHAEL K. | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19151139 | A STEAM TURBINE, A POWER PLANT AND A SMALL MODULAR REACTOR COMPRISING THE TURBINE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OR SERVICING OF SAID TURBINE | GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL | — |
| 18315887 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING MACHINE LEARNING AND DATA ANALYTICS IN HYBRID SYSTEMS | SCHALLHORN, TYLER J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 2 |
| 2144 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19151139 | A STEAM TURBINE, A POWER PLANT AND A SMALL MODULAR REACTOR COMPRISING THE TURBINE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OR SERVICING OF SAID TURBINE | GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL | 3745 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19139721 | A STEAM TURBINE AND A USE OF THE STEAM TURBINE, A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OR SERVICING OF SAID STEAM TURBINE, A SMALL-MODULAR REACTOR AND A POWER PLANT INCLUDING SAID STEAM TURBINE | REITZ, MICHAEL K. | 3745 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 18315887 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING MACHINE LEARNING AND DATA ANALYTICS IN HYBRID SYSTEMS | SCHALLHORN, TYLER J | 2144 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
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