Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 9 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Spirit AeroSystems Inc. currently manages 11 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This portfolio demonstrates a high degree of examiner diversity, as the pending matters are distributed across 11 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests that prosecution strategies must be tailored to a wide variety of individual examiner preferences rather than a centralized group of officials.
The organizational breadth of the portfolio is further evidenced by its presence in 9 distinct art units. While the workload is spread across many officials, JOEL DILLON CRANDALL is identified as the busiest examiner for the company. However, even this busiest examiner is only responsible for 1 pending office action, indicating that no single individual or specific art unit dominates the current prosecution landscape for the firm. Practitioners should prepare for a fragmented prosecution environment where examiners may apply varying interpretations across the 9 distinct art units involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 5 (45%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (55%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON | 1 | 59.4% | +21.6% |
| MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 1 | 53.9% | +30.2% |
| TRAN, THIEN S | 1 | 71.9% | +24.1% |
| KOCH, GEORGE R | 1 | 72.9% | +17.3% |
| BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD | 1 | 67.9% | +35.0% |
| SAETHER, FLEMMING | 1 | 65.1% | +27.9% |
| GROUX, JENNIFER LILA | 1 | 34.8% | +39.3% |
| LEYSON, JOSEPH S | 1 | 66.3% | +35.9% |
| RUFO, LOUIS J | 1 | 54.4% | +22.9% |
| BARTLETT, VICTORIA | 1 | 51.3% | +30.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17982653 | METHOD FOR CONTROL OF SEMI-CRYSTALLINE THERMOPLASTIC MELT FRONT IN OUT OF AUTOCLAVE PROCESSING | BARTLETT, VICTORIA | 27d |
| 18356719 | INDEXING BOLT FOR JOINING COMPOSITE FORM PIECES TOGETHER | SAETHER, FLEMMING | 61d |
| 18630511 | DEBURR TOOL | CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON | — |
| 18512370 | COMPOSITE LAMINATE HEATING TOOL AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME | TRAN, THIEN S | — |
| 18325835 | METHOD FOR FABRICATION OF A CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE PART | LEYSON, JOSEPH S | — |
| 17982129 | METHOD OF BONDING METALLIC COMPONENTS TO FORM MACHINING PREFORM | FERDOUSI, FAHMIDA NMN | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18326710 | MODULAR BUILD PLATE AND METHOD FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | GROUX, JENNIFER LILA | 22d overdue |
| 18111828 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUPERALLOYS UTILIZING ELECTRO-METALLURGY | RUFO, LOUIS J | 4d overdue |
| 17982653 | METHOD FOR CONTROL OF SEMI-CRYSTALLINE THERMOPLASTIC MELT FRONT IN OUT OF AUTOCLAVE PROCESSING | BARTLETT, VICTORIA | 27d |
| 18453407 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING AND VISUALIZING CAMERA IMAGES IN RELATION TO A LARGE-SCALE MANUFACTURING PRODUCT | BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD | 40d |
| 18419275 | CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE SANDWICH STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 46d |
| 18356719 | INDEXING BOLT FOR JOINING COMPOSITE FORM PIECES TOGETHER | SAETHER, FLEMMING | 61d |
| 18630511 | DEBURR TOOL | CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON | — |
| 18512370 | COMPOSITE LAMINATE HEATING TOOL AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME | TRAN, THIEN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1744 | 2 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| 2611 | 1 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18630511 | DEBURR TOOL | CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18419275 | CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE SANDWICH STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 1789 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18512370 | COMPOSITE LAMINATE HEATING TOOL AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME | TRAN, THIEN S | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18460468 | MAXIMIZING THE LAMINATE QUALITY AND STRENGTH OF CURVED COMPOSITE STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS MANUFACTURED WITH AUTOMATED FIBER PLACEMENT (AFP) TECHNOLOGIES | KOCH, GEORGE R | 1745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 18453407 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING AND VISUALIZING CAMERA IMAGES IN RELATION TO A LARGE-SCALE MANUFACTURING PRODUCT | BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD | 2611 | §103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
| 18356719 | INDEXING BOLT FOR JOINING COMPOSITE FORM PIECES TOGETHER | SAETHER, FLEMMING | 3675 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Jul 21, 2023 |
| 18326710 | MODULAR BUILD PLATE AND METHOD FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | GROUX, JENNIFER LILA | 1754 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
| 18325835 | METHOD FOR FABRICATION OF A CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE PART | LEYSON, JOSEPH S | 1744 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18111828 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUPERALLOYS UTILIZING ELECTRO-METALLURGY | RUFO, LOUIS J | 1795 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Feb 20, 2023 |
| 17982653 | METHOD FOR CONTROL OF SEMI-CRYSTALLINE THERMOPLASTIC MELT FRONT IN OUT OF AUTOCLAVE PROCESSING | BARTLETT, VICTORIA | 1744 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Nov 08, 2022 |
| 17982129 | METHOD OF BONDING METALLIC COMPONENTS TO FORM MACHINING PREFORM | FERDOUSI, FAHMIDA NMN | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2022 |
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