Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

SAFRAN

18 pending office actions • 12 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 39 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

18
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
0
Due this week
6
Due this month
1
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. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (1)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%)
17
Medium (94%)
1
Easy (6%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only15 (83%)
§102 only2 (11%)
§112 only1 (6%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
28% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
6% of docket
2
Semiconductors
11% of docket
10
Mechanical / Eng
56% 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.

180 h
Manual time on pending OAs
36 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
63 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, TAI T 1 84.6% +17.4%
HOLLY, LEE A 1 75.0% +5.7%
ZOHOORI, COLIN NAYSAN MISHA 1 71.0% +27.5%
OLYNICK, DAVID 1 77.8% +25.6%
RODRIGUEZ, WILLIAM H 1 89.9% +3.3%
NGUYEN, HOANG M 1 75.7% +16.4%
LISOWSKI, JACEK 1 65.3% +42.1%
LEWANDROSKI, SARA J 1 80.9% +9.8%
SAAD, ERIN BARRY 1 72.4% +11.2%
FLORES JR, DONALD M 1 76.8% +28.3%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18862500 METHOD FOR DETECTING AN ANOMALY IN A SYSTEM OF AN AIRCRAFT LEWANDROSKI, SARA J 42d overdue
19150795 DEVICE FOR DETECTING THE POSITION OF A MOBILE PART, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD AND AIRCRAFT NGUYEN, TAI T 2d overdue
18985887 ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A STATIONARY SURFACE AND A MOVABLE SURFACE OF AN AIRCRAFT RODRIGUEZ, WILLIAM H 16d

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
19099468 EXHAUST SYSTEM FOR A TURBINE ENGINE, COMPRISING A HEAT EXCHANGER OLYNICK, DAVID 43d overdue
19150795 DEVICE FOR DETECTING THE POSITION OF A MOBILE PART, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD AND AIRCRAFT NGUYEN, TAI T 2d overdue
19114587 INJECTOR FOR DE-ICING DEVICE FOR AN AIR INTAKE OF AN AIRCRAFT TURBOJET NACELLE, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD ZOHOORI, COLIN NAYSAN MISHA 26d
18710348 RIGID OPEN COMPOSITE PANEL FLORES JR, DONALD M 27d
18869147 ASSEMBLY FOR A TURBINE ENGINE NGUYEN, HOANG M 54d
18835909 METHOD FOR JOINING TWO ANODISED ELEMENTS BY FRICTION STIR WELDING SAAD, ERIN BARRY 69d
18864958 THRUST REVERSER COMPRISING A SIMPLIFIED-DEPLOYMENT OBTURATOR MEMBRANE LISOWSKI, JACEK 76d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3741 6
2837 2
2685 1
3726 1
3642 1
3746 1
3661 1
1735 1
1781 1
1784 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19150795 DEVICE FOR DETECTING THE POSITION OF A MOBILE PART, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD AND AIRCRAFT NGUYEN, TAI T 2685 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jul 24, 2025
19137557 MACHINING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REPAIRING AN ANNULAR WORKPIECE HOLLY, LEE A 3726 §112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jun 10, 2025
19114587 INJECTOR FOR DE-ICING DEVICE FOR AN AIR INTAKE OF AN AIRCRAFT TURBOJET NACELLE, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD ZOHOORI, COLIN NAYSAN MISHA 3642 §102 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Mar 24, 2025
19099468 EXHAUST SYSTEM FOR A TURBINE ENGINE, COMPRISING A HEAT EXCHANGER OLYNICK, DAVID 3741 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jan 28, 2025
18985887 ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A STATIONARY SURFACE AND A MOVABLE SURFACE OF AN AIRCRAFT RODRIGUEZ, WILLIAM H 3741 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Dec 18, 2024
18869147 ASSEMBLY FOR A TURBINE ENGINE NGUYEN, HOANG M 3746 §103 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Nov 25, 2024
18864958 THRUST REVERSER COMPRISING A SIMPLIFIED-DEPLOYMENT OBTURATOR MEMBRANE LISOWSKI, JACEK 3741 §102 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Nov 12, 2024
18862500 METHOD FOR DETECTING AN ANOMALY IN A SYSTEM OF AN AIRCRAFT LEWANDROSKI, SARA J 3661 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Nov 01, 2024
18835909 METHOD FOR JOINING TWO ANODISED ELEMENTS BY FRICTION STIR WELDING SAAD, ERIN BARRY 1735 §103 Non-Final OA 69d Pending Aug 05, 2024
18710348 RIGID OPEN COMPOSITE PANEL FLORES JR, DONALD M 1781 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending May 15, 2024
18637871 ACOUSTIC PANEL FOR AN AIRCRAFT TURBOMACHINE OLSON, JENNIFER MAR B 2837 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Apr 17, 2024
18627959 ACOUSTICALLY-TREATED AIR EJECTION NOZZLE FOR A NACELLE PHILLIPS, FORREST M 2837 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2024
18687369 ACOUSTIC PANEL HAVING OBLIQUE CAVITIES OMORI, MARY I 1784 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2024
18412753 TOOLING AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING APERTURED ELEMENTS SUCH AS THRUST REVERSER CASCADES FOR AN AIRCRAFT NACELLE MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H 1743 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jan 15, 2024
18574120 PROPULSION UNIT COMPRISING PENDULAR BIFURCATION PANELS NGUYEN, ANDREW H 3741 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Dec 26, 2023
18287130 AUTOMATON FOR APPLYING A PATCH TO A HEATED SURFACE KOCH, GEORGE R 1745 §103 Final Rejection 100d overdue Pending Oct 16, 2023
18251860 ASSEMBLY FOR A TURBOMACHINE AMAR, MARC J 3741 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending May 04, 2023
18246395 THRUST-REVERSAL SYSTEM FOR AN AIRCRAFT AND AIRCRAFT INCLUDING SUCH A SYSTEM SUNG, GERALD LUTHER 3741 §103 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Mar 23, 2023

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