Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Rolls-Royce

8 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 44 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due later (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
6
Medium (75%)
2
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (62%)
§102 only1 (12%)
§112 only2 (25%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
12% of docket
1
Communications
12% of docket
2
Semiconductors
25% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
50% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DUGER, JASON H 1 70.5% +51.0%
CHAN, CAROL WANG 1 83.5% +35.4%
VERDIER, CHRISTOPHER M 1 73.3% +16.2%
HOPKINS, BRANDI N 1 85.5% +11.9%
WANG, CHAO 1 80.0% +85.9%
STEFANON, JUSTIN 1 50.8% +48.3%
WOLCOTT, BRIAN P 1 77.6% +29.7%
MACEDA, KRYSTENE NHE BANDONG 1 100.0% +0.0%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18392907 SECURITY RESERVE MODES FOR CERTIFIED SYSTEMS WANG, CHAO 58d overdue
18410908 FLUID TRANSPORT DIAGNOSTICS HOPKINS, BRANDI N 29d overdue
18661124 MICROSTRUCTURAL LAYERING OF THERMAL SPRAY COATINGS TECHNICAL FIELD CHAN, CAROL WANG 9d overdue
18144425 AIRCRAFT DC POWER BUS REGULATION AND WING DE-ICER MACEDA, KRYSTENE NHE BANDONG 29d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18392907 SECURITY RESERVE MODES FOR CERTIFIED SYSTEMS WANG, CHAO 58d overdue
18417907 Electric Generator Behind Fan in Turbine Engine VERDIER, CHRISTOPHER M 46d overdue
18410908 FLUID TRANSPORT DIAGNOSTICS HOPKINS, BRANDI N 29d overdue
18661124 MICROSTRUCTURAL LAYERING OF THERMAL SPRAY COATINGS TECHNICAL FIELD CHAN, CAROL WANG 9d overdue
18478590 MAGNET RETENTION IN EXTERIOR ROTOR ELECTRIC MACHINES STEFANON, JUSTIN 16d
18478614 MAGNET RETENTION IN EXTERIOR ROTOR ELECTRIC MACHINES WOLCOTT, BRIAN P 65d
19292256 ELECTRIC GENERATOR BEHIND FAN IN TURBINE ENGINE DUGER, JASON H 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3741 1
2672 1
3745 1
2855 1
2439 1
2834 1
3711 1
3761 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19292256 ELECTRIC GENERATOR BEHIND FAN IN TURBINE ENGINE DUGER, JASON H 3741 §112 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Aug 06, 2025
18661124 MICROSTRUCTURAL LAYERING OF THERMAL SPRAY COATINGS TECHNICAL FIELD CHAN, CAROL WANG 2672 §112 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending May 10, 2024
18417907 Electric Generator Behind Fan in Turbine Engine VERDIER, CHRISTOPHER M 3745 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Jan 19, 2024
18410908 FLUID TRANSPORT DIAGNOSTICS HOPKINS, BRANDI N 2855 §102 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Jan 11, 2024
18392907 SECURITY RESERVE MODES FOR CERTIFIED SYSTEMS WANG, CHAO 2439 §103 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2023
18478590 MAGNET RETENTION IN EXTERIOR ROTOR ELECTRIC MACHINES STEFANON, JUSTIN 2834 §103 Final Rejection 16d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18478614 MAGNET RETENTION IN EXTERIOR ROTOR ELECTRIC MACHINES WOLCOTT, BRIAN P 3711 §103 Non-Final OA 65d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18144425 AIRCRAFT DC POWER BUS REGULATION AND WING DE-ICER MACEDA, KRYSTENE NHE BANDONG 3761 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending May 08, 2023

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