Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lufthansa Technik AG has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 3 examiners across 3 art units, indicating distinct examination paths within the portfolio.
CIGNA, JACOB JAMES is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate overall claim strategy while tailoring each response to its individual examiner and technical assignment.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CIGNA, JACOB JAMES | 1 | 63.9% | +32.2% |
| BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | 1 | 79.1% | +4.0% |
| GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 1 | 32.5% | +41.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17785404 | CONTAMINATION PROTECTION FOR RIBLET FILMS | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18830704 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MOUNTING AND DISMANTLING COMPONENTS OF AN AIRCRAFT ENGINE | CIGNA, JACOB JAMES | — |
| 17785404 | CONTAMINATION PROTECTION FOR RIBLET FILMS | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18830704 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MOUNTING AND DISMANTLING COMPONENTS OF AN AIRCRAFT ENGINE | CIGNA, JACOB JAMES | 3726 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18578259 | METHOD FOR SUPPORTING THE PROCESSING OF DAMAGE TO A BLADING OF A TURBOMACHINE, IN PARTICULAR A JET ENGINE, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND SYSTEM | BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | 2662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 17785404 | CONTAMINATION PROTECTION FOR RIBLET FILMS | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 1785 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialLufthansa Technik AG has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Jacob James Cigna has the most, with 1 of Lufthansa Technik AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
