Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
SAS Beyond Aerospace has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 2 actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each active case is being handled independently by a different examiner in a different specialized division. The presence of 2 distinct art units for only 2 actions suggests that the company's aerospace-related innovations fall into different technical classifications.
Brian M O'Hara is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Because both pending actions are assigned to different examiners, the workload is split between the 2 distinct examiners. Prosecution strategy must therefore address the specific requirements of each of these 2 art units. Practitioners should be prepared for distinct examination approaches for each of the company's active matters, as each case is reviewed by a different examiner.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| O'HARA, BRIAN M | 1 | 75.1% | +20.5% |
| MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | 1 | 48.9% | +35.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18545971 | ACTIVE VENTING CONTROL SYSTEM FOR HYDROGEN FUEL TANKS | MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | 12d |
| 19489253 | THERMAL MANAGEMENT AIR DUCT FOR AIRBORNE FUEL CELL SYSTEMS | O'HARA, BRIAN M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18545971 | ACTIVE VENTING CONTROL SYSTEM FOR HYDROGEN FUEL TANKS | MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | 12d |
| 19489253 | THERMAL MANAGEMENT AIR DUCT FOR AIRBORNE FUEL CELL SYSTEMS | O'HARA, BRIAN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3642 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19489253 | THERMAL MANAGEMENT AIR DUCT FOR AIRBORNE FUEL CELL SYSTEMS | O'HARA, BRIAN M | 3642 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2025 |
| 18545971 | ACTIVE VENTING CONTROL SYSTEM FOR HYDROGEN FUEL TANKS | MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
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