Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
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 manages 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. Both actions are situated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused technical scope for the current pending matters. Prosecution is split between 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is handling exactly one case. This arrangement provides the company with two different perspectives on their semiconductor technology within a single specialized group.
PICON-FELICIANO, RUBEN is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This examiner's work represents half of the 2 pending office actions for the company. Despite the narrow focus on 1 distinct art unit, the use of 2 distinct examiners introduces different individual perspectives into the prosecution of these semiconductor and optics technologies. The company's strategy in this 1 distinct art unit must account for the potentially different interpretations of these 2 distinct examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SINGH, DAPINDER | 1 | 82.6% | +18.6% |
| PICON-FELICIANO, RUBEN | 1 | 69.4% | +12.3% |
| POLAY, ANDREW | 1 | 74.0% | +20.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19239003 | BEARING ARRANGEMENT FOR A CAMSHAFT OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND CRANKCASE WITH SAME | SINGH, DAPINDER | 65d |
| 19228342 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE, CONTROL DEVICE FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE WITH A CONTROL DEVICE OF THIS TYPE | PICON-FELICIANO, RUBEN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19239003 | BEARING ARRANGEMENT FOR A CAMSHAFT OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND CRANKCASE WITH SAME | SINGH, DAPINDER | 65d |
| 19228342 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE, CONTROL DEVICE FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE WITH A CONTROL DEVICE OF THIS TYPE | PICON-FELICIANO, RUBEN | — |
| 17842422 | DRIVE FOR A VEHICLE, WATERCRAFT HAVING A DRIVE OF THIS TYPE, METHOD FOR OPERATING A WATERCRAFT, AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR A WATERCRAFT OF THIS TYPE | POLAY, ANDREW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19239003 | BEARING ARRANGEMENT FOR A CAMSHAFT OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND CRANKCASE WITH SAME | SINGH, DAPINDER | 3746 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 65d | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 19228342 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE, CONTROL DEVICE FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE WITH A CONTROL DEVICE OF THIS TYPE | PICON-FELICIANO, RUBEN | — | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 |
| 17842422 | DRIVE FOR A VEHICLE, WATERCRAFT HAVING A DRIVE OF THIS TYPE, METHOD FOR OPERATING A WATERCRAFT, AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR A WATERCRAFT OF THIS TYPE | POLAY, ANDREW | 3615 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2022 |
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