Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 4 of 7 (57%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lilium Eaircraft GmbH maintains a portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 7 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 7 distinct examiners, indicating a range of individual examiner interactions. The workload is spread across 4 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's technology spans several specialized examination groups.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is RIBADENEYRA, THEODORE C, who is currently responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Despite having 7 pending office actions in total, no examiner is handling more than the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This distribution requires the company to manage 7 distinct examiners across the 4 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (57%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIBADENEYRA, THEODORE C | 1 | 89.2% | +9.2% |
| APICELLA, KARIE O | 1 | 80.6% | +12.3% |
| PRUITT, JUSTIN A | 1 | 61.9% | +15.4% |
| DIGNAN, MICHAEL L | 1 | 58.0% | +16.4% |
| LEONG, SUSAN DANG | 1 | 63.7% | +39.1% |
| TEKA, ABIY | 1 | 84.9% | +10.2% |
| FEHR, JULIA MARIE | 1 | 51.6% | -2.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18494634 | ROTOR FOR A DUCTED FAN ENGINE | RIBADENEYRA, THEODORE C | 445d overdue |
| 17681067 | AIRCRAFT HAVING A DUCTED FAN ENGINE OR AN ARRAY THEREOF | TEKA, ABIY | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18201416 | BATTERY ASSEMBLY, IN PARTICULAR FOR USE IN AN ELECTRICAL PROPULSION VTOL AIRCRAFT, AND ELECTRICAL PROPULSION VTOL AIRCRAFT COMPRISING SUCH A BATTERY ASSEMBLY | APICELLA, KARIE O | 19d overdue |
| 17993104 | LAMINATED FILM FOR PACKAGING OF POUCH-TYPE BATTERY CELLS, POUCH-TYPE BATTERY CELL AND BATTERY | LEONG, SUSAN DANG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18201416 | BATTERY ASSEMBLY, IN PARTICULAR FOR USE IN AN ELECTRICAL PROPULSION VTOL AIRCRAFT, AND ELECTRICAL PROPULSION VTOL AIRCRAFT COMPRISING SUCH A BATTERY ASSEMBLY | APICELLA, KARIE O | 19d overdue |
| 18188805 | ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN DUCTED FAN ENGINE | PRUITT, JUSTIN A | 21d |
| 18112928 | ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY WITH HEAT SPREADING LAYER, BATTERY CELL AND BATTERY EMPLOYING SUCH ELECTRODE ASSEMBLIES | DIGNAN, MICHAEL L | 21d |
| 17993104 | LAMINATED FILM FOR PACKAGING OF POUCH-TYPE BATTERY CELLS, POUCH-TYPE BATTERY CELL AND BATTERY | LEONG, SUSAN DANG | — |
| 17681067 | AIRCRAFT HAVING A DUCTED FAN ENGINE OR AN ARRAY THEREOF | TEKA, ABIY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 3 |
| 1725 | 2 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18494634 | ROTOR FOR A DUCTED FAN ENGINE | RIBADENEYRA, THEODORE C | 3745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 445d overdue | AI Ready | Oct 25, 2023 |
| 18201416 | BATTERY ASSEMBLY, IN PARTICULAR FOR USE IN AN ELECTRICAL PROPULSION VTOL AIRCRAFT, AND ELECTRICAL PROPULSION VTOL AIRCRAFT COMPRISING SUCH A BATTERY ASSEMBLY | APICELLA, KARIE O | 1725 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | AI Ready | May 24, 2023 |
| 18188805 | ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN DUCTED FAN ENGINE | PRUITT, JUSTIN A | 3745 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | AI Ready | Mar 23, 2023 |
| 18112928 | ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY WITH HEAT SPREADING LAYER, BATTERY CELL AND BATTERY EMPLOYING SUCH ELECTRODE ASSEMBLIES | DIGNAN, MICHAEL L | 1723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | AI Ready | Feb 22, 2023 |
| 17993104 | LAMINATED FILM FOR PACKAGING OF POUCH-TYPE BATTERY CELLS, POUCH-TYPE BATTERY CELL AND BATTERY | LEONG, SUSAN DANG | 1754 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 23, 2022 |
| 17681067 | AIRCRAFT HAVING A DUCTED FAN ENGINE OR AN ARRAY THEREOF | TEKA, ABIY | 3745 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2022 |
| 17670874 | HYBRID ELECTRODE | FEHR, JULIA MARIE | 1725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Feb 14, 2022 |
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