Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gkn Aerospace Sweden AB has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. These are split between 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the aerospace-related mechanical filings are categorized into different technical specialties within the patent office.
The 2 pending actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners. CHAU, ALAIN is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending office action. This ratio of examiners to actions indicates that each pending matter is under independent review. The company must manage its prosecution by addressing the specific requirements of two different examiners across two separate art units.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAU, ALAIN | 1 | 80.5% | +26.0% |
| WALTERS, RYAN J | 1 | 74.4% | +29.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18867929 | EXHAUST CONE HEAT EXCHANGER (HEX) | CHAU, ALAIN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18576409 | TOOL HOLDER DAMPER | WALTERS, RYAN J | 8d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18576409 | TOOL HOLDER DAMPER | WALTERS, RYAN J | 8d |
| 18867929 | EXHAUST CONE HEAT EXCHANGER (HEX) | CHAU, ALAIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3741 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18867929 | EXHAUST CONE HEAT EXCHANGER (HEX) | CHAU, ALAIN | 3741 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18576409 | TOOL HOLDER DAMPER | WALTERS, RYAN J | 3799 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
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