Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
SAFRAN has 7 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 7 distinct examiners across 6 distinct art units. This distribution shows that every pending case is being reviewed by a different individual. With 7 pending office actions and 7 distinct examiners, the company faces a variety of examination styles. The 6 distinct art units suggest that the mechanical engineering technologies in the portfolio are spread across several specialized USPTO divisions.
WALTHOUR, SCOTT J is the busiest examiner, currently holding 1 pending office action. With 7 distinct examiners involved, the company must manage seven separate individual perspectives. However, the fact that these examiners are spread across 6 distinct art units provides a highly distributed environment. This structure requires the company to adapt to the specific requirements of each of the 6 distinct art units. Practitioners should treat each of the 7 pending office actions as an independent effort, as the lack of examiner or art unit overlap prevents the application of a unified prosecution approach across the current portfolio. The outcome of any single action is unlikely to provide significant procedural insight into the others, despite all being within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area.
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 | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 1 (12%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALTHOUR, SCOTT J | 1 | 78.6% | +70.1% |
| COLON MORALES, DAVID | 1 | 79.0% | +17.5% |
| SEHN, MICHAEL L | 1 | 81.2% | +12.7% |
| DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 84.3% | +21.8% |
| RIEGELMAN, MICHAEL A | 1 | 78.3% | +14.7% |
| MCCALL, ERIC SCOTT | 1 | 87.8% | +6.2% |
| SAAD, ERIN BARRY | 1 | 72.4% | +11.4% |
| HARRINGTON, ALYSON JOAN | 1 | 74.6% | +61.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18997265 | ASSEMBLY FOR A TURBINE ENGINE | DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18640473 | METHOD FOR SIZING STUBS OF A BLADE DISC OF A TURBOMACHINE INTENDED FOR ORBITAL WELDING | SAAD, ERIN BARRY | 25d overdue |
| 18290910 | SYSTEM FOR COOLING OIL IN AN AIRCRAFT TURBINE ENGINE | HARRINGTON, ALYSON JOAN | 6d |
| 19116572 | SOLENOID VALVE AND DEVICE HAVING THE SOLENOID VALVE | COLON MORALES, DAVID | — |
| 19101680 | VARIABLE VANE OF AN AIRCRAFT TURBINE ENGINE STATOR, AND AIRCRAFT TURBINE ENGINE | SEHN, MICHAEL L | — |
| 18858083 | TEST BENCH FOR A TURBOMACHINE | MCCALL, ERIC SCOTT | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18640473 | METHOD FOR SIZING STUBS OF A BLADE DISC OF A TURBOMACHINE INTENDED FOR ORBITAL WELDING | SAAD, ERIN BARRY | 25d overdue |
| 18290910 | SYSTEM FOR COOLING OIL IN AN AIRCRAFT TURBINE ENGINE | HARRINGTON, ALYSON JOAN | 6d |
| 18857271 | OPTIMISED AIR-OIL HEAT EXCHANGER | WALTHOUR, SCOTT J | — |
| 19116572 | SOLENOID VALVE AND DEVICE HAVING THE SOLENOID VALVE | COLON MORALES, DAVID | — |
| 19101680 | VARIABLE VANE OF AN AIRCRAFT TURBINE ENGINE STATOR, AND AIRCRAFT TURBINE ENGINE | SEHN, MICHAEL L | — |
| 18997265 | ASSEMBLY FOR A TURBINE ENGINE | DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18868289 | POLYGONAL PROFILE COUPLING OF PUMPS IN A LUBRICATION ASSEMBLY | RIEGELMAN, MICHAEL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3741 | 2 |
| 3745 | 2 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18857271 | OPTIMISED AIR-OIL HEAT EXCHANGER | WALTHOUR, SCOTT J | 3741 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
| 19116572 | SOLENOID VALVE AND DEVICE HAVING THE SOLENOID VALVE | COLON MORALES, DAVID | 3753 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19101680 | VARIABLE VANE OF AN AIRCRAFT TURBINE ENGINE STATOR, AND AIRCRAFT TURBINE ENGINE | SEHN, MICHAEL L | 3745 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 18997265 | ASSEMBLY FOR A TURBINE ENGINE | DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER | 3745 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 18868289 | POLYGONAL PROFILE COUPLING OF PUMPS IN A LUBRICATION ASSEMBLY | RIEGELMAN, MICHAEL A | 3654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18858083 | TEST BENCH FOR A TURBOMACHINE | MCCALL, ERIC SCOTT | 2855 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18640473 | METHOD FOR SIZING STUBS OF A BLADE DISC OF A TURBOMACHINE INTENDED FOR ORBITAL WELDING | SAAD, ERIN BARRY | 1735 | §101§102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 25d overdue | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18290910 | SYSTEM FOR COOLING OIL IN AN AIRCRAFT TURBINE ENGINE | HARRINGTON, ALYSON JOAN | 3741 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSAFRAN has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 8 examiners.
Scott J Walthour has the most, with 1 of SAFRAN's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
