Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Woodward Inc. is currently managing 6 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution is highly distributed, with 6 distinct examiners each handling one matter. These actions are spread across 5 distinct art units, indicating that the company's mechanical innovations are technically diverse.
JELLETT, MATTHEW WILLIAM is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This high ratio of art units to pending actions suggests that almost every case involves a different technical specialization. Practitioners should be prepared for a wide range of examiner expectations and art unit-specific procedures.
With 6 distinct examiners involved, there is no concentration of workload with any single individual. This decentralized structure requires a versatile prosecution strategy to address the varied feedback from 5 distinct art units. The presence of multiple art units ensures that the company's technology is being reviewed by specialists across several mechanical fields.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 5 (83%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JELLETT, MATTHEW WILLIAM | 1 | 80.1% | +17.3% |
| FORD, RENE D | 1 | 80.1% | +22.2% |
| WONG, ELTON K | 1 | 78.1% | +19.1% |
| PREVIL, DANIEL | 1 | 85.9% | +12.5% |
| TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 1 | 65.6% | +27.7% |
| AHMED, ISTIAQUE | 1 | 69.5% | +20.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19071093 | FLAME ARRESTOR SCREW | JELLETT, MATTHEW WILLIAM | — |
| 19028927 | JAM DETECTION AND JAM TOLERANT MOTION CONTROL | FORD, RENE D | — |
| 18530070 | FUEL CELL VIRTUAL SENSOR | PREVIL, DANIEL | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18792264 | ROTARY ACTUATOR WITH REDUNDANT LOAD PATHS | WONG, ELTON K | 15d |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18792264 | ROTARY ACTUATOR WITH REDUNDANT LOAD PATHS | WONG, ELTON K | 15d |
| 19071093 | FLAME ARRESTOR SCREW | JELLETT, MATTHEW WILLIAM | — |
| 19028927 | JAM DETECTION AND JAM TOLERANT MOTION CONTROL | FORD, RENE D | — |
| 18530070 | FUEL CELL VIRTUAL SENSOR | PREVIL, DANIEL | — |
| 18461607 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MOTOR-DRIVEN METERING PUMP | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | — |
| 18223776 | Real Time Control Using an Isolated Controller | AHMED, ISTIAQUE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19071093 | FLAME ARRESTOR SCREW | JELLETT, MATTHEW WILLIAM | 3753 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19028927 | JAM DETECTION AND JAM TOLERANT MOTION CONTROL | FORD, RENE D | 3741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18792264 | ROTARY ACTUATOR WITH REDUNDANT LOAD PATHS | WONG, ELTON K | 3745 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18530070 | FUEL CELL VIRTUAL SENSOR | PREVIL, DANIEL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18461607 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MOTOR-DRIVEN METERING PUMP | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
| 18223776 | Real Time Control Using an Isolated Controller | AHMED, ISTIAQUE | 2116 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
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