Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
9 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Jeppesen Foreflight Inc. manages 8 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These filings are distributed across 7 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. The breadth of 5 distinct art units suggests that the company's mechanical and transportation innovations cover a wide range of technical classifications within the USPTO. This diversity indicates that the portfolio likely addresses several different functional aspects of transportation technology.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE, who is currently handling 2 pending office actions. This busiest examiner pending count of 2 is the highest concentration of work for any single individual in the portfolio, while the remaining pending office actions are spread among the other 7 distinct examiners. This distribution shows that while an examiner has a slightly higher volume, the prosecution workload remains largely decentralized. Such a spread can mitigate the impact of any specific examiner's tendencies on the overall portfolio of 8 actions.
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 (22%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (44%) |
| §103 only | 3 (33%) |
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 | 22.6% | +26.7% |
| SINGH, AMRESH | 1 | 76.2% | +21.9% |
| OBAID, HAMZEH M | 1 | 38.3% | +22.4% |
| HO, THOMAS Y | 1 | 16.9% | +30.1% |
| KNIGHT, LETORIA G | 1 | 28.3% | +49.2% |
| MERCADO, RAMON A | 1 | 81.1% | +18.8% |
| STEWART, CRYSTOL | 1 | 33.9% | +29.2% |
| BOSWELL, BETH V | 1 | 9.9% | -2.2% |
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 7 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 | — |
| 17961729 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY SCHEDULING AIRCRAFT PILOT TRAINING RESOURCES | KNIGHT, LETORIA G | — |
| 17751655 | RESOURCE PLANNING WITH INCOMPLETE INFORMATION | STEWART, CRYSTOL | — |
| 17662091 | VALIDATION OF COST-OPTIMAL MINIMUM TURN TIMES | BOSWELL, BETH V | — |
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 | — |
| 17961729 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY SCHEDULING AIRCRAFT PILOT TRAINING RESOURCES | KNIGHT, LETORIA G | — |
| 17751655 | RESOURCE PLANNING WITH INCOMPLETE INFORMATION | STEWART, CRYSTOL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3624 | 5 |
| 2159 | 1 |
| 3623 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3625 | 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 |
| 17961729 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY SCHEDULING AIRCRAFT PILOT TRAINING RESOURCES | KNIGHT, LETORIA G | 3623 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2022 |
| 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§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2022 |
| 17662091 | VALIDATION OF COST-OPTIMAL MINIMUM TURN TIMES | BOSWELL, BETH V | 3625 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 05, 2022 |
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