Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
SAFRAN is currently active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area, with 3 pending office actions under review. This level of activity suggests a focused effort to protect their technical innovations. The prosecution workload is distributed among 3 distinct examiners, which indicates that each pending application is being handled by a different technical expert within the patent office.
The applications are also being processed in 3 distinct art units. This distribution implies that the company's technology covers several different specialized areas within the Chemistry & Materials field. For a practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy must be tailored to the specific guidelines and precedents of each of these different art units to ensure consistent progress.
MEDLEY, JOHN SAMUEL is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. Because the workload is spread across multiple examiners and art units, the overall prosecution risk is decentralized. Success will depend on navigating the individual preferences of each examiner while adhering to the technical standards of the various art units involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEDLEY, JOHN SAMUEL | 1 | 67.5% | +32.6% |
| LIU, JINGCHEN | 1 | 62.7% | +65.0% |
| MCCONNELL, WYATT P | 1 | 80.8% | +9.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18265021 | METHOD FOR STOPPING A GAS TURBINE ENGINE OF A TURBOGENERATOR FOR AIRCRAFT | LIU, JINGCHEN | 98d overdue |
| 18689576 | SEALING DEVICE CONFIGURED TO BE MOUNTED IN A FLUID FLOW CHANNEL OF A FUEL CELL STACK, AND SEALING METHOD | MEDLEY, JOHN SAMUEL | — |
| 18040754 | FUEL CELL, SYSTEM COMPRISING A FUEL CELL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SYSTEM | MCCONNELL, WYATT P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18265021 | METHOD FOR STOPPING A GAS TURBINE ENGINE OF A TURBOGENERATOR FOR AIRCRAFT | LIU, JINGCHEN | 98d overdue |
| 18689576 | SEALING DEVICE CONFIGURED TO BE MOUNTED IN A FLUID FLOW CHANNEL OF A FUEL CELL STACK, AND SEALING METHOD | MEDLEY, JOHN SAMUEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1751 | 1 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18689576 | SEALING DEVICE CONFIGURED TO BE MOUNTED IN A FLUID FLOW CHANNEL OF A FUEL CELL STACK, AND SEALING METHOD | MEDLEY, JOHN SAMUEL | 1751 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18265021 | METHOD FOR STOPPING A GAS TURBINE ENGINE OF A TURBOGENERATOR FOR AIRCRAFT | LIU, JINGCHEN | 3741 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 98d overdue | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
| 18040754 | FUEL CELL, SYSTEM COMPRISING A FUEL CELL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SYSTEM | MCCONNELL, WYATT P | 1727 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSAFRAN has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
John Samuel Medley has the most, with 1 of SAFRAN's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
