Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
ZF Airbag Germany GmbH currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. All of these matters are concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly centralized prosecution environment. This concentration suggests that the company's current patent strategy is focused on a specific niche or a single family of applications.
Examiner FELTON, AILEEN BAKER is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, handling 2 pending office actions. Because this single examiner is responsible for the entire pending workload, the outcomes of these 2 actions will significantly impact the immediate growth of the portfolio. Practitioners should prepare for consistent feedback across these filings due to the lack of examiner diversity.
The presence of only 1 distinct art unit further reinforces the specialized nature of these filings. With 2 pending office actions to navigate, the prosecution team can focus their efforts on the specific standards and precedents of this single art unit. This streamlined structure may simplify the management of responses compared to portfolios spread across multiple units.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FELTON, AILEEN BAKER | 2 | 51.7% | +16.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18522459 | PROPELLANT ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE PROPELLANT ELEMENT | FELTON, AILEEN BAKER | 16d |
| 18295309 | COMPRESSED PROPELLANT ELEMENT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF AND GAS GENERATOR COMPRISING PROPELLANT ELEMENT | FELTON, AILEEN BAKER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18522459 | PROPELLANT ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE PROPELLANT ELEMENT | FELTON, AILEEN BAKER | 16d |
| 18295309 | COMPRESSED PROPELLANT ELEMENT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF AND GAS GENERATOR COMPRISING PROPELLANT ELEMENT | FELTON, AILEEN BAKER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1734 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18522459 | PROPELLANT ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE PROPELLANT ELEMENT | FELTON, AILEEN BAKER | 1734 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18295309 | COMPRESSED PROPELLANT ELEMENT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF AND GAS GENERATOR COMPRISING PROPELLANT ELEMENT | FELTON, AILEEN BAKER | 1734 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialZF Airbag Germany GmbH has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Aileen Baker Felton has the most, with 2 of ZF Airbag Germany GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
