Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
8 pending office actions • 3 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Jeppesen Foreflight Inc. has 8 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 7 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating broad examiner distribution within a more concentrated art-unit structure. BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending office actions.
The difference between the examiner and art-unit counts suggests that multiple matters share art-unit environments even though examiner assignments are widely distributed. That structure supports coordinated monitoring of art-unit practice, while the examiner spread requires individualized prosecution planning. The busiest examiner’s repeated assignment may provide a useful point for identifying recurring response issues, but the overall profile calls for a portfolio system that captures both examiner-specific and art-unit-specific developments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 only | 2 (25%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (38%) |
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | 2 | 22.7% | +26.1% |
| SINGH, AMRESH | 1 | 76.2% | +22.2% |
| OBAID, HAMZEH M | 1 | 37.9% | +21.8% |
| HO, THOMAS Y | 1 | 17.6% | +29.0% |
| MERCADO, RAMON A | 1 | 81.1% | +18.8% |
| STEWART, CRYSTOL | 1 | 33.6% | +28.8% |
| LABOGIN, DORETHEA L | 1 | 14.1% | +16.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17896368 | Processes and Systems for Airspace Design | MERCADO, RAMON A | 4d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18186873 | Aircraft Fleet Assignment With Slot Constraints | OBAID, HAMZEH M | 9d |
| 18313532 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMALLY SCHEDULING RESOURCES FOR TRIPS | BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | — |
| 18298511 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING CREW ROSTERS FOR TRIPS | BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | — |
| 18150236 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCHEDULING FLIGHTS OF AIRCRAFT | HO, THOMAS Y | — |
| 17751655 | RESOURCE PLANNING WITH INCOMPLETE INFORMATION | STEWART, CRYSTOL | — |
| 16897688 | MULTILEVEL COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZER FOR RESOURCE PLANNING | LABOGIN, DORETHEA L | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17896368 | Processes and Systems for Airspace Design | MERCADO, RAMON A | 4d overdue |
| 18186873 | Aircraft Fleet Assignment With Slot Constraints | OBAID, HAMZEH M | 9d |
| 18671191 | Decision Making Support for Features Published in Digital Format with Non-AIRAC Valid Time | SINGH, AMRESH | 15d |
| 18313532 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMALLY SCHEDULING RESOURCES FOR TRIPS | BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | — |
| 18298511 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING CREW ROSTERS FOR TRIPS | BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | — |
| 18150236 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCHEDULING FLIGHTS OF AIRCRAFT | HO, THOMAS Y | — |
| 17751655 | RESOURCE PLANNING WITH INCOMPLETE INFORMATION | STEWART, CRYSTOL | — |
| 16897688 | MULTILEVEL COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZER FOR RESOURCE PLANNING | LABOGIN, DORETHEA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3624 | 6 |
| 2159 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18671191 | Decision Making Support for Features Published in Digital Format with Non-AIRAC Valid Time | SINGH, AMRESH | 2159 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18313532 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMALLY SCHEDULING RESOURCES FOR TRIPS | BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | 3624 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
| 18298511 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING CREW ROSTERS FOR TRIPS | BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | 3624 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2023 |
| 18186873 | Aircraft Fleet Assignment With Slot Constraints | OBAID, HAMZEH M | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Mar 20, 2023 |
| 18150236 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCHEDULING FLIGHTS OF AIRCRAFT | HO, THOMAS Y | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2023 |
| 17896368 | Processes and Systems for Airspace Design | MERCADO, RAMON A | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Aug 26, 2022 |
| 17751655 | RESOURCE PLANNING WITH INCOMPLETE INFORMATION | STEWART, CRYSTOL | 3624 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2022 |
| 16897688 | MULTILEVEL COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZER FOR RESOURCE PLANNING | LABOGIN, DORETHEA L | 3624 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialJeppesen Foreflight Inc. has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 7 examiners.
Uche Sowande Byrd has the most, with 2 of Jeppesen Foreflight Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
