Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Saab AB manages 5 pending office actions within its patent portfolio. These actions are concentrated in the Networking & Security technology area and are spread across 2 distinct art units. This suggests a focused technical scope for the company's current patent applications under review at the patent office.
The company's prosecution involves 5 distinct examiners. AARON L TROOST is the busiest examiner for Saab AB, currently handling 1 pending office action. With 5 total pending actions assigned to 5 different examiners, the workload is distributed such that each examiner manages one pending matter. This one-to-one ratio between examiners and pending actions means that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the company's active docket. Practitioners must coordinate across 5 unique examiner perspectives within the 2 art units to ensure consistent prosecution results.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 3 (60%) |
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TROOST, AARON L | 1 | 74.7% | +10.5% |
| NGUYEN, CHUONG P | 1 | 79.1% | +13.4% |
| KO, SITHU | 1 | 86.6% | +15.7% |
| GRADINARIU, LUCIA GHEORGHE | 1 | 38.5% | +52.8% |
| WONG, JOCK M | 1 | 36.0% | +50.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18873834 | HIGH INTEGRITY SAFETY MANAGEMENT | TROOST, AARON L | — |
| 18870534 | DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF UAVs | NGUYEN, CHUONG P | — |
| 18857045 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A NON-JITTERING TRIGGER SIGNAL IN A NODE OF A SERIAL DATA RING-BUS | KO, SITHU | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18574003 | TIME ALIGNMENT OF SAMPLED RADIO FREQUENCY IN A MULTI-CHANNEL RECEIVER SYSTEM | GRADINARIU, LUCIA GHEORGHE | 3d overdue |
| 17974636 | SPRING DEVICE FOR SECURING A THREADED FASTENER OF A BOLTED JOINT AND A SYSTEM FOR SECURING A BOLTED JOINT | WONG, JOCK M | 34d |
| 18873834 | HIGH INTEGRITY SAFETY MANAGEMENT | TROOST, AARON L | — |
| 18870534 | DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF UAVs | NGUYEN, CHUONG P | — |
| 18857045 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A NON-JITTERING TRIGGER SIGNAL IN A NODE OF A SERIAL DATA RING-BUS | KO, SITHU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2478 | 1 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18873834 | HIGH INTEGRITY SAFETY MANAGEMENT | TROOST, AARON L | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18870534 | DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF UAVs | NGUYEN, CHUONG P | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
| 18857045 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A NON-JITTERING TRIGGER SIGNAL IN A NODE OF A SERIAL DATA RING-BUS | KO, SITHU | — | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18574003 | TIME ALIGNMENT OF SAMPLED RADIO FREQUENCY IN A MULTI-CHANNEL RECEIVER SYSTEM | GRADINARIU, LUCIA GHEORGHE | 2478 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 17974636 | SPRING DEVICE FOR SECURING A THREADED FASTENER OF A BOLTED JOINT AND A SYSTEM FOR SECURING A BOLTED JOINT | WONG, JOCK M | 3675 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
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