Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
15 pending office actions • 10 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 54 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rohr Inc. shows a highly decentralized prosecution profile with 16 pending office actions spread across 15 distinct examiners. This near one-to-one ratio of actions to examiners indicates that the portfolio's Chemistry & Materials focus is being reviewed by a wide variety of individual perspectives. The 11 distinct art units involved further highlight the technical breadth of the pending applications, as the actions are not clustered in a single specialized group.
WRIGHT, ALEXANDER SCOTT is the busiest examiner but accounts for only 2 pending office actions. This means no single examiner holds significant influence over the 16 pending matters. For the legal team, this distribution requires managing 15 distinct examiner relationships across 11 art units, which may lead to less predictable outcomes compared to a more concentrated portfolio. The high number of art units for the available actions is particularly notable, suggesting that Rohr Inc. is pursuing a very diverse range of chemical and material innovations. This level of dispersion necessitates a highly individualized strategy for each pending office action.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 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. 8 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 | 7 (47%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (7%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WRIGHT, ALEXANDER SCOTT | 2 | 73.5% | -0.6% |
| ROLLAND, ALEX A | 1 | 47.9% | +26.6% |
| TAVARES-CROCKETT, ULA CORINNA | 1 | 39.6% | +29.9% |
| BEHA, CAROLINE | 1 | 57.5% | +23.8% |
| CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 54.4% | +34.6% |
| LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN | 1 | 73.6% | +21.9% |
| LUK, EMMANUEL S | 1 | 71.5% | +26.3% |
| SAN MARTIN, EDGARDO | 1 | 76.0% | +6.5% |
| MCNALLY, DANIEL | 1 | 68.0% | +13.6% |
| LUGO, CARLOS | 1 | 74.9% | +14.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18403092 | LATCH ASSEMBLY FOR AN AIRCRAFT PROPULSION SYSTEM COWL | LUGO, CARLOS | 142d overdue |
| 19034226 | SULFONATION TREATMENT FOR A THERMOPLASTIC PART | ROLLAND, ALEX A | 4d overdue |
| 17566203 | INDUCTION WELDING WITH AN ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD CONCENTRATOR | FERDOUSI, FAHMIDA NMN | 9d |
| 18756032 | THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE COMPONENTS AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME | CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J | — |
| 18601332 | AIRCRAFT ACOUSTIC PANEL WITH PERFORATED CAVITY WALLS | LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN | — |
| 18409053 | WELDING THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE AND HONEYCOMB CORE | MCNALLY, DANIEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18403092 | LATCH ASSEMBLY FOR AN AIRCRAFT PROPULSION SYSTEM COWL | LUGO, CARLOS | 142d overdue |
| 19034226 | SULFONATION TREATMENT FOR A THERMOPLASTIC PART | ROLLAND, ALEX A | 4d overdue |
| 19034238 | SULFONATED THERMOPLASTIC PART AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME | TAVARES-CROCKETT, ULA CORINNA | — |
| 19018823 | FORMING DUCT STRUCTURE WITH OVERBRAIDED WOVEN FIBER SLEEVE | BEHA, CAROLINE | — |
| 18756032 | THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE COMPONENTS AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME | CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J | — |
| 18601332 | AIRCRAFT ACOUSTIC PANEL WITH PERFORATED CAVITY WALLS | LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN | — |
| 18598786 | FIRE RETARDANT THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME | LUK, EMMANUEL S | — |
| 18409053 | WELDING THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE AND HONEYCOMB CORE | MCNALLY, DANIEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1748 | 2 |
| 1745 | 2 |
| 2837 | 2 |
| 3675 | 2 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| 1786 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19034226 | SULFONATION TREATMENT FOR A THERMOPLASTIC PART | ROLLAND, ALEX A | 1759 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 19034238 | SULFONATED THERMOPLASTIC PART AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME | TAVARES-CROCKETT, ULA CORINNA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 19018823 | FORMING DUCT STRUCTURE WITH OVERBRAIDED WOVEN FIBER SLEEVE | BEHA, CAROLINE | 1748 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18769058 | REPAIRING COMPOSITE THERMOPLASTIC COMPONENT USING INDUCTION / CONDUCTIVE HEATING | WRIGHT, ALEXANDER SCOTT | 1745 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18756032 | THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE COMPONENTS AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME | CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J | 1744 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18601332 | AIRCRAFT ACOUSTIC PANEL WITH PERFORATED CAVITY WALLS | LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN | 2837 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18598786 | FIRE RETARDANT THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME | LUK, EMMANUEL S | 1741 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18588873 | ACOUSTIC PANEL FOR AN AIRCRAFT PROPULSION SYSTEM | SAN MARTIN, EDGARDO | 2837 | DP | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18409053 | WELDING THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE AND HONEYCOMB CORE | MCNALLY, DANIEL | 1784 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18403092 | LATCH ASSEMBLY FOR AN AIRCRAFT PROPULSION SYSTEM COWL | LUGO, CARLOS | 3675 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 142d overdue | Pending | Jan 03, 2024 |
| 18402352 | Aircraft latch Assembly with Lock Sensor(s) | BROWN, EMILY GAIL | 3675 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jan 02, 2024 |
| 18224974 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR JOINING THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE COMPONENTS | KONVES, ADRIANNA N | 1748 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Jul 21, 2023 |
| 18092884 | METHOD OF ULTRASONIC WELDING THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE COMPONENTS | WRIGHT, ALEXANDER SCOTT | 1745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Jan 03, 2023 |
| 17864174 | COMPOSITES AND METHODS OF FORMING COMPOSITES HAVING TAILORED CTE | BOYD, JENNIFER A | 1786 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2022 |
| 17566203 | INDUCTION WELDING WITH AN ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD CONCENTRATOR | FERDOUSI, FAHMIDA NMN | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Dec 30, 2021 |
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