Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 11 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 32 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd. & Co. KG has 12 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. These 12 actions are distributed across 12 distinct examiners and 11 distinct art units. This ratio of actions to art units and examiners indicates a very high level of technical diversity within the company's semiconductor and optics portfolio. SEBASCO CHENG, STEPHANIE is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Because each examiner only handles 1 pending action, there is no opportunity to apply specific examiner insights across multiple pending applications.
The 11 distinct art units suggest that the company's research spans a broad spectrum of specialized classifications. With 12 distinct examiners involved, the company must manage 12 unique prosecution styles simultaneously. This distributed structure requires a strategy that can adapt to many different examiner preferences while maintaining technical consistency across 11 different art units. There is almost no concentration of work, meaning each case must be treated as an independent effort. Practitioners should be prepared for a highly fragmented prosecution landscape that demands individual attention for every pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 3 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEBASCO CHENG, STEPHANIE | 1 | 58.8% | +71.3% |
| COOLEY, CHASE LITTLEJOHN | 1 | 66.8% | +16.9% |
| RODRIGUEZ, JOSHUA KIEL MIGUEL | 1 | 73.2% | +17.2% |
| JOHNSON, RYAN | 1 | 83.8% | +15.7% |
| PRUITT, JUSTIN A | 1 | 61.9% | +15.4% |
| VO, ETHAN NGUYEN | 1 | 79.0% | +10.1% |
| OH, JIYOUNG | 1 | 77.3% | +21.5% |
| PARK, HYUN D | 1 | 41.7% | +22.8% |
| VORTMAN, ANATOLY | 1 | 70.0% | +13.8% |
| LEGASPI, EUGENE REY DEVERA | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18484304 | ELECTRICAL MODULE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN ELECTRICAL MODULE | OH, JIYOUNG | 44d overdue |
| 18745385 | MULTILANE POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM | JOHNSON, RYAN | 3d overdue |
| 18227895 | CIRCUIT BOARD ARRANGEMENT | HANUMASAGAR, SHAMITA S | 12d |
| 18433732 | PRE-SWIRL NOZZLE SYSTEM IN A GAS TURBINE AND PRE-SWIRL NOZZLE SYSTEM | PRUITT, JUSTIN A | 23d |
| 19352022 | PILOT ARRANGEMENT, NOZZLE DEVICE, PRODUCTION METHOD, AND GAS TURBINE ARRANGEMENT | SEBASCO CHENG, STEPHANIE | — |
| 18553559 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A DEVICE STATE | PARK, HYUN D | — |
| 18372085 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD ASSEMBLY | VORTMAN, ANATOLY | — |
| 18278837 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A COIL | LEGASPI, EUGENE REY DEVERA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18484304 | ELECTRICAL MODULE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN ELECTRICAL MODULE | OH, JIYOUNG | 44d overdue |
| 18745385 | MULTILANE POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM | JOHNSON, RYAN | 3d overdue |
| 18504150 | ELECTRIC DRIVE UNIT FOR AN AIRCRAFT | VO, ETHAN NGUYEN | 6d |
| 18433732 | PRE-SWIRL NOZZLE SYSTEM IN A GAS TURBINE AND PRE-SWIRL NOZZLE SYSTEM | PRUITT, JUSTIN A | 23d |
| 19352022 | PILOT ARRANGEMENT, NOZZLE DEVICE, PRODUCTION METHOD, AND GAS TURBINE ARRANGEMENT | SEBASCO CHENG, STEPHANIE | — |
| 19061286 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN AIRCRAFT, AND AIRCRAFT | COOLEY, CHASE LITTLEJOHN | — |
| 18722581 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A COMPONENT OF AN ELECTRIC MACHINE, COMPONENT OF AN ELECTRIC MACHINE, AND ELECTRIC MOTOR IN AN AIRCRAFT PROPULSION SYSTEM INCLUDING A COMPONENT OF THIS TYPE | RODRIGUEZ, JOSHUA KIEL MIGUEL | — |
| 18553559 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A DEVICE STATE | PARK, HYUN D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 2 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| 2849 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2835 | 1 |
| 3729 | 1 |
| 2814 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19352022 | PILOT ARRANGEMENT, NOZZLE DEVICE, PRODUCTION METHOD, AND GAS TURBINE ARRANGEMENT | SEBASCO CHENG, STEPHANIE | 3741 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2025 |
| 19061286 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN AIRCRAFT, AND AIRCRAFT | COOLEY, CHASE LITTLEJOHN | 3662 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 18722581 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A COMPONENT OF AN ELECTRIC MACHINE, COMPONENT OF AN ELECTRIC MACHINE, AND ELECTRIC MOTOR IN AN AIRCRAFT PROPULSION SYSTEM INCLUDING A COMPONENT OF THIS TYPE | RODRIGUEZ, JOSHUA KIEL MIGUEL | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18745385 | MULTILANE POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM | JOHNSON, RYAN | 2849 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18433732 | PRE-SWIRL NOZZLE SYSTEM IN A GAS TURBINE AND PRE-SWIRL NOZZLE SYSTEM | PRUITT, JUSTIN A | 3745 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 18504150 | ELECTRIC DRIVE UNIT FOR AN AIRCRAFT | VO, ETHAN NGUYEN | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 18484304 | ELECTRICAL MODULE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN ELECTRICAL MODULE | OH, JIYOUNG | 2818 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
| 18553559 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A DEVICE STATE | PARK, HYUN D | 2857 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2023 |
| 18372085 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD ASSEMBLY | VORTMAN, ANATOLY | 2835 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2023 |
| 18278837 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A COIL | LEGASPI, EUGENE REY DEVERA | 3729 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
| 18227895 | CIRCUIT BOARD ARRANGEMENT | HANUMASAGAR, SHAMITA S | 2814 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 18310885 | MIXING DEVICE FOR A PRIMARY FLUID FLOW IN FIRST TUBE WITH AT LEAST ONE SECONDARY FLUID FLOW, A METHOD FOR MIXING AND AIRCRAFT ENGINE | INSLER, ELIZABETH | 1774 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2023 |
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