Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Hoffman Warnick - GE Vernova

Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

10 pending office actions • 3 clients • 10 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 40 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Hoffman Warnick - GE Vernova has 10 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The profile records 10662 career applications, giving the current chemistry and materials docket context within a broad prosecution history. The active matters require current examination management despite the wider historical filing base.

The resolved allowance rate is 87.11%, and allowed matters have involved an average of 2.94 office actions. The rate supplies a resolved-outcome measure, while the action average indicates the examination activity associated with allowance. Practitioners can use these figures to frame both portfolio expectations and the response resources needed for prosecution.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=10662 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

87.1%
Allowance Rate
n=10662
+0.55σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=10662
2.9
OAs to Allowance
n=7337
-0.30σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=7337
945 days
Time to Allowance
n=7337
+9.0pp
Interview Lift
n=10662
19.9%
RCE Rate
n=10662
2.4%
Appeal Rate
n=10662

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

81.5%
§101 Overcome
n=648
82.6%
§102 Overcome
n=2972
83.1%
§103 Overcome
n=4637
84.4%
§112 Overcome
n=3324

Specialization & Scale

F01D, F05D, H10D
Top CPC Subclasses
12%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=10662
8
Practitioners
n=10662
1332.8
Apps / Practitioner
n=10662

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

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

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.

3
Hard (30%)
6
Medium (60%)
1
Easy (10%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (60%)
§112 only1 (10%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (30%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
70% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
30% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
STONER, KILEY SHAWN 1 80.8% +15.4%
HASAN, SABBIR 1 88.1% +15.4%
REITZ, MICHAEL K. 1 69.1% +5.1%
STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN 1 0.0% +0.0%
KRASNOW, NICHOLAS R 1 66.4% +12.9%
KANG, EDWIN G 1 64.1% +66.6%
SCHLEIS, DANIEL J 1 71.9% +5.3%
WU, JENNY R 1 63.6% +15.9%
JANSSEN, REBECCA 1 60.7% +27.5%
WANG, NICHOLAS A 1 53.5% +22.1%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19144301 TURBOMACHINE COMPRESSOR EXIT REGION SEAL FLOW CIRCUIT HASAN, SABBIR —

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18495814 METHOD OF USING METAL COUPON WITH POROUS REGION FOR COMPONENT WU, JENNY R 68d
19450121 POROUS METAL COUPON WITH BRAZE MATERIAL INFILTRATION BARRIER FOR REPAIRING COMPONENT, COMPONENT WITH SAME AND RELATED METHOD STONER, KILEY SHAWN —
18658035 BUILD PLATFORM FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING AND RELATED METHOD STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN —

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18399849 COMBUSTOR WITH ADJUSTABLE AIR FLOW FOR AXIAL FUEL STAGE INJECTOR AND HEAD END FUEL NOZZLE ASSEMBLY KANG, EDWIN G 14d
18118478 CORROSION PITTING RESISTANT MARTENSITIC STAINLESS STEEL AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME WANG, NICHOLAS A 54d
18578197 ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM WITH PARTIALLY FLEXIBLE BUILD PLATFORM KRASNOW, NICHOLAS R 62d
18495814 METHOD OF USING METAL COUPON WITH POROUS REGION FOR COMPONENT WU, JENNY R 68d
19450121 POROUS METAL COUPON WITH BRAZE MATERIAL INFILTRATION BARRIER FOR REPAIRING COMPONENT, COMPONENT WITH SAME AND RELATED METHOD STONER, KILEY SHAWN —
19144301 TURBOMACHINE COMPRESSOR EXIT REGION SEAL FLOW CIRCUIT HASAN, SABBIR —
18495816 METAL POROUS REGION FOR COMPONENT PRINTED ON REPLACEMENT REGION OR BASE REGION OF COMPONENT JANSSEN, REBECCA —

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
GE 8
GE Vernova 1
General Electric 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17333
37452
17351
17441
37411
17841
17341

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19450121 POROUS METAL COUPON WITH BRAZE MATERIAL INFILTRATION BARRIER FOR REPAIRING COMPONENT, COMPONENT WITH SAME AND RELATED METHOD GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC STONER, KILEY SHAWN 1735 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 15, 2026
19144301 TURBOMACHINE COMPRESSOR EXIT REGION SEAL FLOW CIRCUIT GE Infrastructure Technology LLC HASAN, SABBIR 3745 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 27, 2025
19227934 TURBINE BLADE UNDER-PLATFORM STRUCTURE AND POCKET GE Infrastructure Technology LLC REITZ, MICHAEL K. 3745 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Jun 04, 2025
18658035 BUILD PLATFORM FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING AND RELATED METHOD GE Infrastructure Technology LLC STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN 1733 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 08, 2024
18578197 ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM WITH PARTIALLY FLEXIBLE BUILD PLATFORM GE Infrastructure Technology LLC KRASNOW, NICHOLAS R 1744 §103 Final Rejection 62d Pending Jan 10, 2024
18399849 COMBUSTOR WITH ADJUSTABLE AIR FLOW FOR AXIAL FUEL STAGE INJECTOR AND HEAD END FUEL NOZZLE ASSEMBLY GE Infrastructure Technology LLC KANG, EDWIN G 3741 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Dec 29, 2023
18495811 METAL POROUS COUPON WITH ANCHOR FOR COMPONENT AND COMPONENT WITH SAME GE Infrastructure Technology LLC SCHLEIS, DANIEL J 1784 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending Oct 27, 2023
18495814 METHOD OF USING METAL COUPON WITH POROUS REGION FOR COMPONENT GE Infrastructure Technology LLC WU, JENNY R 1733 §103§112 Final Rejection 68d Pending Oct 27, 2023
18495816 METAL POROUS REGION FOR COMPONENT PRINTED ON REPLACEMENT REGION OR BASE REGION OF COMPONENT GE Infrastructure Technology LLC JANSSEN, REBECCA 1733 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 27, 2023
18118478 CORROSION PITTING RESISTANT MARTENSITIC STAINLESS STEEL AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME General Electric Company WANG, NICHOLAS A 1734 §103 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Mar 07, 2023

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Hoffman Warnick - GE Vernova's patent allowance rate?

87.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Hoffman Warnick - GE Vernova were allowed, across 10,662 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Hoffman Warnick - GE Vernova average before allowance?

2.94 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Hoffman Warnick - GE Vernova have?

10 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 3 clients, before 10 examiners in 7 art units.

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