Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rolls-Royce currently has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution of these matters is split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This structure indicates that the company's current patent applications are being evaluated across different technical groups within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. Such a spread suggests that the company's innovations may have applications in multiple sub-sectors.
COOPERRIDER, KELLY MARIE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Given that the company has 2 pending office actions total, this examiner's work represents 1 of the active matters on the docket. The use of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations are diverse enough to require review from 2 specialized units within the USPTO. This multi-unit involvement requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to different examiner expectations across the current technology area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARNER, LILY CRABTREE | 1 | 68.2% | +16.3% |
| COOPERRIDER, KELLY MARIE | 1 | — | — |
| ADAMS, NATHANIEL L | 1 | 72.2% | +19.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19109990 | CLOSURE HEAD MOUNTING FIXTURE | GARNER, LILY CRABTREE | — |
| 18554424 | REFUELLING A NUCLEAR REACTOR | COOPERRIDER, KELLY MARIE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19109990 | CLOSURE HEAD MOUNTING FIXTURE | GARNER, LILY CRABTREE | — |
| 18254694 | NUCLEAR POWER PLANT SYSTEM | ADAMS, NATHANIEL L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3646 | 2 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19109990 | CLOSURE HEAD MOUNTING FIXTURE | GARNER, LILY CRABTREE | 3646 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 18554424 | REFUELLING A NUCLEAR REACTOR | COOPERRIDER, KELLY MARIE | 3646 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 18254694 | NUCLEAR POWER PLANT SYSTEM | ADAMS, NATHANIEL L | 3654 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialRolls-Royce has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Lily Crabtree Garner has the most, with 1 of Rolls-Royce's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
