Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
23 pending office actions • 14 art units • 23 examiners • 0 of 23 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 43 patents granted in the last 365 days
Joby Aero Inc. has 22 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 13 distinct art units, reflecting the complex mechanical systems involved in their technology. The presence of 13 different art units for 22 actions indicates that the company's innovations are being classified into many different specialized technical categories.
There are 22 distinct examiners assigned to these 22 actions, resulting in a ratio of 1 examiner per pending matter. MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. This distribution means that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the current pending portfolio. Every single pending action is being reviewed by a different individual, which maximizes the variety of examiner perspectives the company must address.
This ratio of 22 examiners to 22 actions is a significant feature of the portfolio. It suggests a lack of examiner concentration that is unusual even for larger portfolios. For the company, this means that prosecution strategies must be developed independently for each case, as there is no overlap in personnel to provide consistency across the 13 art units involved in the 22 pending actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 1 (4%) |
| §101 + other | 6 (26%) |
| §103 only | 7 (30%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (9%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (26%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A | 1 | 49.1% | +50.6% |
| WU, PAYSUN | 1 | 65.5% | +18.7% |
| WHALEN, MICHAEL F | 1 | 64.8% | +18.8% |
| BADAWI, MEDHAT | 1 | 81.5% | +12.6% |
| LINHARDT, LAURA E | 1 | 68.8% | +21.2% |
| SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO | 1 | 45.5% | +14.5% |
| CODUROGLU, JALAL C | 1 | 85.8% | +7.4% |
| SU, STEPHANIE T | 1 | 67.1% | +29.4% |
| SINGLETARY, TYRONE E | 1 | 30.4% | +28.2% |
| LOUIE, WAE LENNY | 1 | 84.8% | +7.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19077954 | Vehicle Cabin Thermal Management System and Method | CODUROGLU, JALAL C | — |
| 19029089 | Network System Including Drones | LOUIE, WAE LENNY | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18907029 | Vehicle Request Coordination System for Multi-Client Computing Ecosystem | KIRK, BRYAN J | 43d overdue |
| 17542034 | REDUNDANT RESOLVER | SCHINDLER, DAVID M | 27d |
| 19274244 | Systems and Methods for Seamless Feedback Between Aviation Services and Multimodal Transportation Services | MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A | — |
| 19224914 | System And Method For Controlling A VTOL Aircraft Using Differing Blade Angle of Attack Regimes With Different Lift Coefficient Curves | BADAWI, MEDHAT | — |
| 19207745 | Unmanned Aircraft Control Using Engine Torque Control System | LINHARDT, LAURA E | — |
| 19202878 | Contingency Planning | SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO | — |
| 19025209 | Efficient VTOL Resource Management in an Aviation Transport Network | KOESTER, MICHAEL RICHARD | — |
| 18955559 | ELECTRIC MOTOR CONFIGURATION | VAZIRI, MASOUD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19029301 | Determining VTOL Departure Time in an Aviation Transport Network for Efficient Resource Management | SINGLETARY, TYRONE E | 28d |
| 19274244 | Systems and Methods for Seamless Feedback Between Aviation Services and Multimodal Transportation Services | MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A | — |
| 19263065 | Unmanned Aircraft Control Using Ground Control Station | WU, PAYSUN | — |
| 19246832 | Vehicle Autonomy Architecture | WHALEN, MICHAEL F | — |
| 19224914 | System And Method For Controlling A VTOL Aircraft Using Differing Blade Angle of Attack Regimes With Different Lift Coefficient Curves | BADAWI, MEDHAT | — |
| 19207745 | Unmanned Aircraft Control Using Engine Torque Control System | LINHARDT, LAURA E | — |
| 19202878 | Contingency Planning | SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO | — |
| 19051256 | Cloud Service Integration with Onboard Vehicle System | SU, STEPHANIE T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3661 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| 3667 | 1 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| 2841 | 1 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19274244 | Systems and Methods for Seamless Feedback Between Aviation Services and Multimodal Transportation Services | MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 |
| 19263065 | Unmanned Aircraft Control Using Ground Control Station | WU, PAYSUN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2025 |
| 19246832 | Vehicle Autonomy Architecture | WHALEN, MICHAEL F | 3661 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19224914 | System And Method For Controlling A VTOL Aircraft Using Differing Blade Angle of Attack Regimes With Different Lift Coefficient Curves | BADAWI, MEDHAT | 3642 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 19207745 | Unmanned Aircraft Control Using Engine Torque Control System | LINHARDT, LAURA E | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 19202878 | Contingency Planning | SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO | 3663 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
| 19077954 | Vehicle Cabin Thermal Management System and Method | CODUROGLU, JALAL C | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 19051256 | Cloud Service Integration with Onboard Vehicle System | SU, STEPHANIE T | 3662 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19029301 | Determining VTOL Departure Time in an Aviation Transport Network for Efficient Resource Management | SINGLETARY, TYRONE E | 3625 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19029089 | Network System Including Drones | LOUIE, WAE LENNY | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19025209 | Efficient VTOL Resource Management in an Aviation Transport Network | KOESTER, MICHAEL RICHARD | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18972265 | System and Method for Yaw Moment Control | MIRZA, ADNAN M | 3667 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18955559 | ELECTRIC MOTOR CONFIGURATION | VAZIRI, MASOUD | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18907029 | Vehicle Request Coordination System for Multi-Client Computing Ecosystem | KIRK, BRYAN J | 3628 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18906878 | ELECTRIC MOTOR WITH LIGHTWEIGHT MAGNETIC ROTOR | GONZALEZ QUINONES, JOSE A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18896415 | ETHERNET SWITCH BOX WITH HIGH VOLTAGE INPUT | MULARSKI, ROSS TERRY | 2841 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18891776 | Avionic System with Pseudolite-Based Positioning | ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 3648 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18403874 | Time Varying Loudness Prediction System | NGUYEN, STEVEN VU | 3668 | §103 | Final Rejection | 57d | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18398764 | THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AIRCRAFT FUEL CELLS | MALLON, BRETT PETERSON | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18503498 | HYDROGEN RECIRCULATION TURBOCHARGER | RAYMOND, BRITTANY L | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 18449476 | Battery-Based Aircraft Performance and Operations | HINTON, HENRY R | 3665 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
| 18141461 | Solid Motor Coils And Motors Using Same | ELNAKIB, AHMED | 2834 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2023 |
| 17542034 | REDUNDANT RESOLVER | SCHINDLER, DAVID M | 2858 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Dec 03, 2021 |
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