Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. This portfolio is distributed across distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, indicating a broad spread of examination oversight rather than concentration in a single specialized group. The distribution suggests that the company's Communications filings encounter a variety of technical sub-specialties during the prosecution process.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is CASTIAUX, BRENT D, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the total of pending office actions is split among several distinct examiners, no individual examiner holds a disproportionate share of the workload. This variety in assignment means the prosecution strategy must account for diverse examiner behaviors and art unit standards across the Communications sector.
Practitioners should note that the workload under CASTIAUX, BRENT D represents the maximum concentration for any individual examiner in this set. With multiple distinct examiners involved, the entity maintains a decentralized prosecution profile. This requires a flexible approach to handle the different procedural expectations found in each of the involved art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASTIAUX, BRENT D | 1 | 83.4% | +15.1% |
| CADEAU, WEDNEL | 1 | 71.8% | +19.2% |
| LI, HELEN | 1 | 69.2% | +16.4% |
| LEVEL, BARBARA HENRY | 1 | 71.8% | +28.0% |
| CAI, JIAJIA JANIE | 1 | 29.1% | +20.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18721420 | DISPLAY OF AUGMENTED REALITY IMAGES USING A VIRTUAL OPTICAL DISPLAY SYSTEM | CASTIAUX, BRENT D | 87d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17437601 | COMPOSITE MATERIAL WITH ENHANCED THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY AND METHOD FOR FABRICATION THEREOF | CAI, JIAJIA JANIE | 8d overdue |
| 18293614 | VEHICLE NAVIGATION COMBINING TRANSMITTED OBJECT LOCATION INFORMATION AND SENSOR-BASED RELATIVE OBJECT LOCATION INFORMATION | LI, HELEN | 26d |
| 18044653 | EVENT PREDICTION BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING AND ENGINEERING ANALYSIS TOOLS | LEVEL, BARBARA HENRY | 60d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18721420 | DISPLAY OF AUGMENTED REALITY IMAGES USING A VIRTUAL OPTICAL DISPLAY SYSTEM | CASTIAUX, BRENT D | 87d overdue |
| 17437601 | COMPOSITE MATERIAL WITH ENHANCED THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY AND METHOD FOR FABRICATION THEREOF | CAI, JIAJIA JANIE | 8d overdue |
| 18293614 | VEHICLE NAVIGATION COMBINING TRANSMITTED OBJECT LOCATION INFORMATION AND SENSOR-BASED RELATIVE OBJECT LOCATION INFORMATION | LI, HELEN | 26d |
| 18044653 | EVENT PREDICTION BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING AND ENGINEERING ANALYSIS TOOLS | LEVEL, BARBARA HENRY | 60d |
| 18742076 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING FAILURES IN A SAFETY COUPLING | CADEAU, WEDNEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2623 | 1 |
| 2632 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| 2142 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18721420 | DISPLAY OF AUGMENTED REALITY IMAGES USING A VIRTUAL OPTICAL DISPLAY SYSTEM | CASTIAUX, BRENT D | 2623 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 87d overdue | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18742076 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING FAILURES IN A SAFETY COUPLING | CADEAU, WEDNEL | 2632 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18293614 | VEHICLE NAVIGATION COMBINING TRANSMITTED OBJECT LOCATION INFORMATION AND SENSOR-BASED RELATIVE OBJECT LOCATION INFORMATION | LI, HELEN | 3665 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18044653 | EVENT PREDICTION BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING AND ENGINEERING ANALYSIS TOOLS | LEVEL, BARBARA HENRY | 2142 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 60d | Pending | Mar 09, 2023 |
| 17437601 | COMPOSITE MATERIAL WITH ENHANCED THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY AND METHOD FOR FABRICATION THEREOF | CAI, JIAJIA JANIE | 1761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Sep 09, 2021 |
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