Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ratier-Figeac SAS maintains a portfolio with 7 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed among 7 distinct examiners, showing a high degree of variety in the individuals reviewing the company's applications. Furthermore, these cases span 5 distinct art units, indicating a broad technical footprint within the mechanical and medical fields. This diversity suggests the company's innovation spans multiple specialized classifications.
The busiest examiner, RIBADENEYRA, THEODORE C, is currently handling 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, no individual examiner dominates the workload. Instead, the pending office actions are spread across the distinct examiners, requiring the company to navigate many various examination styles and procedural preferences simultaneously. This lack of concentration means that the prosecution team must be adaptable to various examiner behaviors.
This distribution across 5 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations touch on several different sub-specialties. Practitioners must manage a complex prosecution landscape where each of the pending office actions may face different technical hurdles. The lack of concentration among examiners means that success in a specific case may not necessarily predict the outcome in others within this diverse portfolio. The broad range of art units requires deep technical expertise across the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (57%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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% |
| DANGOL, ASHESH | 1 | 69.1% | +51.1% |
| SCHINDLER, DAVID M | 1 | 40.5% | +23.4% |
| SEBASCO CHENG, STEPHANIE | 1 | 58.8% | +71.3% |
| DAVIS, JASON GREGORY | 1 | 74.4% | +17.8% |
| MACARTHUR, VICTOR L | 1 | 66.3% | +12.8% |
| PATEL, DHRUVKUMAR | 1 | 79.5% | +15.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19191158 | BLADE SPAR | RIBADENEYRA, THEODORE C | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18463830 | GEAR ASSEMBLY FOR A SIDE STICK UNIT | MACARTHUR, VICTOR L | 56d |
| 19073238 | SENSING SYSTEM | SCHINDLER, DAVID M | — |
| 19073231 | PROPELLER PROPULSION SYSTEMS | SEBASCO CHENG, STEPHANIE | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19097033 | FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM | DANGOL, ASHESH | 43d overdue |
| 19059479 | ROTARY BLADE | DAVIS, JASON GREGORY | 11d overdue |
| 18463830 | GEAR ASSEMBLY FOR A SIDE STICK UNIT | MACARTHUR, VICTOR L | 56d |
| 19073238 | SENSING SYSTEM | SCHINDLER, DAVID M | — |
| 19073231 | PROPELLER PROPULSION SYSTEMS | SEBASCO CHENG, STEPHANIE | — |
| 18241276 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A TOOL PATH FOR ENGRAVING ON VARIOUS SHAPED SURFACES | PATEL, DHRUVKUMAR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 2 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| 3618 | 1 |
| 2119 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19191158 | BLADE SPAR | RIBADENEYRA, THEODORE C | 3745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19097033 | FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM | DANGOL, ASHESH | 3642 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 19073238 | SENSING SYSTEM | SCHINDLER, DAVID M | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19073231 | PROPELLER PROPULSION SYSTEMS | SEBASCO CHENG, STEPHANIE | 3741 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19059479 | ROTARY BLADE | DAVIS, JASON GREGORY | 3745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 18463830 | GEAR ASSEMBLY FOR A SIDE STICK UNIT | MACARTHUR, VICTOR L | 3618 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18241276 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A TOOL PATH FOR ENGRAVING ON VARIOUS SHAPED SURFACES | PATEL, DHRUVKUMAR | 2119 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
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