Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Barnes & Thornburg LLP (Rolls-Royce)

5 pending office actions • 2 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 57 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=83804 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

84.3%
Allowance Rate
n=83804
+0.63σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=83804
3.5
OAs to Allowance
n=49257
-0.06σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=49257
1145 days
Time to Allowance
n=49257
+10.6pp
Interview Lift
n=83804
31.4%
RCE Rate
n=83804
2.9%
Appeal Rate
n=83804

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

88.9%
§101 Overcome
n=1653
87.9%
§102 Overcome
n=7356
83.9%
§103 Overcome
n=27535
92.0%
§112 Overcome
n=7056

Specialization & Scale

A61B, A61K, A61F
Top CPC Subclasses
19%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=83804
92
Practitioners
n=83804
910.9
Apps / Practitioner
n=83804

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (20%)
3
Medium (60%)
1
Easy (20%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (20%)
§103 only3 (60%)
Double-patenting only1 (20%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
20% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
20% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
60% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA 1 38.8% +36.0%
MEADE, LORNE EDWARD 1 50.8% +39.5%
CARPENTER, JOSHUA S 1 50.6% +38.4%
MACEDA, KRYSTENE NHE BANDONG 1 50.0% +100.0%
STEFANON, JUSTIN 1 51.1% +48.0%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18899827 DYNAMIC DATA DELIVERABLE TOOL DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18144425 AIRCRAFT DC POWER BUS REGULATION AND WING DE-ICER MACEDA, KRYSTENE NHE BANDONG 29d
18899827 DYNAMIC DATA DELIVERABLE TOOL DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA
18541974 TURBINE-POWERED SYSTEM WITH THERMOELECTRIC COOLING MEADE, LORNE EDWARD
18359352 A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A COMPONENT CARPENTER, JOSHUA S
17887955 ELECTRIC MACHINE WITH AIR COOLED ROTOR STEFANON, JUSTIN

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36231
37411
17331
37611
28341

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18899827 DYNAMIC DATA DELIVERABLE TOOL Rolls-Royce DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA 3623 §101 Final Rejection Pending Sep 27, 2024
18541974 TURBINE-POWERED SYSTEM WITH THERMOELECTRIC COOLING Rolls-Royce MEADE, LORNE EDWARD 3741 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 15, 2023
18359352 A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A COMPONENT Rolls-Royce CARPENTER, JOSHUA S 1733 DP Final Rejection Pending Jul 26, 2023
18144425 AIRCRAFT DC POWER BUS REGULATION AND WING DE-ICER Rolls-Royce MACEDA, KRYSTENE NHE BANDONG 3761 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending May 08, 2023
17887955 ELECTRIC MACHINE WITH AIR COOLED ROTOR Rolls-Royce STEFANON, JUSTIN 2834 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 15, 2022

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