Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
SAFRAN currently has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These cases are being reviewed by 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This spread shows that the company's mechanical innovations are diverse enough to require review from multiple examiners.
MEDLEY, JOHN SAMUEL is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed with 1 case per examiner. This allows the company to receive feedback from 3 different perspectives within the 2 distinct art units involved.
The presence of 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's filings in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering fall into two separate technical categories. With 3 pending office actions, the company maintains a steady volume of prosecution activity. This profile reflects a portfolio with multiple active threads in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 | 67.8% | +31.4% |
| LIU, JINGCHEN | 1 | 63.5% | +67.7% |
| MCCONNELL, WYATT P | 1 | 80.6% | +9.4% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 | — | §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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