Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Cantor Colburn LLP - Pratt & Whitney

16 pending office actions • 2 clients • 15 examiners • 13 art units • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 143 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (1)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
14
Medium (88%)
2
Easy (12%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only14 (88%)
§112 only2 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
12% of docket
3
Information Tech
19% of docket
1
Communications
6% of docket
3
Semiconductors
19% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
44% 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.

160 h
Manual time on pending OAs
32 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
56 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
AMAR, MARC J 2 74.9% +38.3%
MEILLER, SEAN V 1 77.5% +36.0%
WIEHE, NATHANIEL EDWARD 1 51.5% +32.8%
MEADE, LORNE EDWARD 1 50.4% +39.7%
WANG, MICHAEL H 1 52.1% +25.7%
YANG, JIANXUN 1 74.3% +19.0%
MONTY, MARZIA T 1 70.5% +31.8%
FAYE, MAMADOU 1 78.3% +7.1%
PATEL, JIGNESHKUMAR C 1 79.1% +21.3%
WEI, ZENGPU 1 71.0% +53.7%

Interview Candidates (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19065009 HYDROGEN TURBINE POWER ASSISTED CONDENSATION MEILLER, SEAN V 35d overdue
18538554 AUTOMATED BORESCOPE POSE ESTIMATION VIA VIRTUAL MODALITIES YANG, JIANXUN 17d overdue
18366129 REMOTE UPDATES OF A GAS TURBINE ENGINE WEI, ZENGPU 8d overdue
17586326 HYBRID ELECTRIC SINGLE ENGINE DESCENT RESTART AMAR, MARC J 8d overdue
18802099 BIFURACTING LAYUP FOR AIRFOIL RIB, METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF AND ARTICLES COMPRISING THE SAME WANG, MICHAEL H 4d overdue
18920379 IN-FLIGHT MEASURED PROPULSION MASS FLOW AND THRUST ON AIRCRAFT WIEHE, NATHANIEL EDWARD 8d
18478084 NEURAL NETWORK BASED FAST MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL FOR POWER REGULATION PATEL, JIGNESHKUMAR C 8d
18340341 METHOD TO DECREASE ACOUSTIC SIGNATURE OF A HYBRID ELECTRIC PROPULSION SYSTEM AMAR, MARC J 12d

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
RTX 15
University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37414
37451
36421
26621
21171
28841
21161
21971
28581
28551

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19065009 HYDROGEN TURBINE POWER ASSISTED CONDENSATION Rtx Corporation MEILLER, SEAN V 3741 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Feb 27, 2025
18920379 IN-FLIGHT MEASURED PROPULSION MASS FLOW AND THRUST ON AIRCRAFT Rtx Corporation WIEHE, NATHANIEL EDWARD 3745 §112 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Oct 18, 2024
18919910 GAS TURBINE ENGINE WITH ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN COMPRESSOR Rtx Corporation MEADE, LORNE EDWARD 3741 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Oct 18, 2024
18802099 BIFURACTING LAYUP FOR AIRFOIL RIB, METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF AND ARTICLES COMPRISING THE SAME Rtx Corporation WANG, MICHAEL H 3642 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Aug 13, 2024
18538554 AUTOMATED BORESCOPE POSE ESTIMATION VIA VIRTUAL MODALITIES Rtx Corporation YANG, JIANXUN 2662 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2023
18387538 ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED COMPONENT INCLUDING TEXTURED WITNESS LINES Rtx Corporation MONTY, MARZIA T 2117 §112 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Nov 07, 2023
18492191 COMPONENT CORROSION PROGNOSTICS USING COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT)-SCAN AND METHODS Rtx Corporation FAYE, MAMADOU 2884 §103 Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Oct 23, 2023
18478084 NEURAL NETWORK BASED FAST MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL FOR POWER REGULATION Rtx Corporation PATEL, JIGNESHKUMAR C 2116 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18366129 REMOTE UPDATES OF A GAS TURBINE ENGINE Rtx Corporation WEI, ZENGPU 2197 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Aug 07, 2023
18340341 METHOD TO DECREASE ACOUSTIC SIGNATURE OF A HYBRID ELECTRIC PROPULSION SYSTEM Rtx Corporation AMAR, MARC J 3741 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jun 23, 2023
18331699 MULTI INSTRUMENT EGRESS FOR GAS TURBINE ENGINE Rtx Corporation NAVARRO, HUGO IVAN 2858 §103 Final Rejection 35d Pending Jun 08, 2023
17992101 ELECTRICAL CONNECTIVITY TO HIGH TEMPERATURE FILM SENSOR DEVICES University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees MANCINI, EVAN THOMAS 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Nov 22, 2022
17586326 HYBRID ELECTRIC SINGLE ENGINE DESCENT RESTART Rtx Corporation AMAR, MARC J 3741 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jan 27, 2022
17132215 METHOD FOR METAL VAPOR INFILTRATION OF CMC PARTS AND ARTICLES CONTAINING THE SAME Rtx Corporation TUROCY, DAVID P 1718 §103 Non-Final OA 70d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2020
17077459 SUSPENSION PLASMA SPRAY ABRADABLE COATING FOR CANTILEVER STATOR Raytheon Technologies Corporation PENNY, TABATHA L 1712 §103 Final Rejection 50d overdue Pending Oct 22, 2020
16797133 CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE COMPONENT HAVING LOW DENSITY CORE AND METHOD OF MAKING Rtx Corporation WOLCOTT, BRIAN P 3711 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Feb 21, 2020

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