Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Venus Aerospace Corp. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, which means each active case is being reviewed by a different person. This arrangement requires the company to navigate the specific tendencies of separate individuals. The cases are consolidated within 1 distinct art unit, providing some level of administrative and technical consistency despite the different examiners involved.
The busiest examiner for the company is THOMAS, KYLE ROBERT, who is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending case. Given the total number of pending office actions, the workload is evenly split, with each of the distinct examiners handling a case. The focus within the distinct art unit suggests that the technical subject matter is closely related, even if the examiners differ. Practitioners should ensure that arguments made to THOMAS, KYLE ROBERT are consistent with those presented in the other pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS, KYLE ROBERT | 1 | 72.8% | +28.4% |
| WALTHOUR, SCOTT J | 1 | 78.4% | +70.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18620981 | ROTATING DETONATION ENGINE WITH SECONDARY COMBUSTION AND COMBINED CYCLE PROPULSION | WALTHOUR, SCOTT J | 56d |
| 18809157 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPOSITION FOR PROPULSION GRADE HYDROGEN PEROXIDE HEAVY IN-ORGANIC STABILIZATION USE IN ROTATING DETONATING ROCKET ENGINES & LONG-TERM STORAGE IN PROPELLANT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS | THOMAS, KYLE ROBERT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18620981 | ROTATING DETONATION ENGINE WITH SECONDARY COMBUSTION AND COMBINED CYCLE PROPULSION | WALTHOUR, SCOTT J | 56d |
| 18809157 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPOSITION FOR PROPULSION GRADE HYDROGEN PEROXIDE HEAVY IN-ORGANIC STABILIZATION USE IN ROTATING DETONATING ROCKET ENGINES & LONG-TERM STORAGE IN PROPELLANT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS | THOMAS, KYLE ROBERT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3741 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18809157 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPOSITION FOR PROPULSION GRADE HYDROGEN PEROXIDE HEAVY IN-ORGANIC STABILIZATION USE IN ROTATING DETONATING ROCKET ENGINES & LONG-TERM STORAGE IN PROPELLANT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS | THOMAS, KYLE ROBERT | 3741 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18620981 | ROTATING DETONATION ENGINE WITH SECONDARY COMBUSTION AND COMBINED CYCLE PROPULSION | WALTHOUR, SCOTT J | 3741 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
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