Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Hoffman Warnick - GE Vernova

7 pending office actions • 3 clients • 7 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 39 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=10541 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

87.2%
Allowance Rate
n=10541
+0.54σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=10541
2.9
OAs to Allowance
n=7273
-0.32σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=7273
943 days
Time to Allowance
n=7273
+8.8pp
Interview Lift
n=10541
19.9%
RCE Rate
n=10541
2.4%
Appeal Rate
n=10541

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

82.0%
§101 Overcome
n=637
82.7%
§102 Overcome
n=2935
83.3%
§103 Overcome
n=4583
84.7%
§112 Overcome
n=3288

Specialization & Scale

F01D, F05D, H10D
Top CPC Subclasses
12%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=10541
8
Practitioners
n=10541
1317.6
Apps / Practitioner
n=10541

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)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 (43%)
4
Medium (57%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (43%)
Double-patenting + other1 (14%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (43%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
57% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
43% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SEHN, MICHAEL L 1 80.9% +13.0%
HE, QIANPING 1 66.8% +15.0%
KANG, EDWIN G 1 64.0% +67.8%
JANSSEN, REBECCA 1 60.0% +30.4%
OMORI, MARY I 1 50.8% +58.7%
WU, JENNY R 1 63.4% +16.2%
TEIXEIRA MOFFAT, JONATHAN CHARLES 1 67.0% +8.0%

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
17490339 TOOL AND REPAIR METHOD FOR REMOVING A THERMAL BARRIER COATING TEIXEIRA MOFFAT, JONATHAN CHARLES 177d overdue
18495814 METHOD OF USING METAL COUPON WITH POROUS REGION FOR COMPONENT WU, JENNY R 68d
19282396 OVERLAP HOLDER FOR SEGMENTED LINER OF TURBOMACHINE COMPONENT SEHN, MICHAEL L

Interview Candidates (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18399849 COMBUSTOR WITH ADJUSTABLE AIR FLOW FOR AXIAL FUEL STAGE INJECTOR AND HEAD END FUEL NOZZLE ASSEMBLY KANG, EDWIN G 14d
18495814 METHOD OF USING METAL COUPON WITH POROUS REGION FOR COMPONENT WU, JENNY R 68d
18495809 POROUS METAL COUPON WITH CONDUIT FOR REPAIRING COMPONENT, COMPONENT WITH SAME AND RELATED METHOD OMORI, MARY I 76d
19282396 OVERLAP HOLDER FOR SEGMENTED LINER OF TURBOMACHINE COMPONENT SEHN, MICHAEL L
18777903 HAZARDOUS GAS DIRECT AIR CAPTURE MODULE AND SYSTEM HE, QIANPING
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 5
GE Vernova 1
General Electric 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17332
37451
17761
37411
17841
37001

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19282396 OVERLAP HOLDER FOR SEGMENTED LINER OF TURBOMACHINE COMPONENT GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC SEHN, MICHAEL L 3745 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 28, 2025
18777903 HAZARDOUS GAS DIRECT AIR CAPTURE MODULE AND SYSTEM GE Infrastructure Technology LLC HE, QIANPING 1776 §102§103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Jul 19, 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
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
18495809 POROUS METAL COUPON WITH CONDUIT FOR REPAIRING COMPONENT, COMPONENT WITH SAME AND RELATED METHOD GE Infrastructure Technology LLC OMORI, MARY I 1784 §103 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Oct 27, 2023
18495814 METHOD OF USING METAL COUPON WITH POROUS REGION FOR COMPONENT GE Infrastructure Technology LLC WU, JENNY R 1733 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 68d Pending Oct 27, 2023
17490339 TOOL AND REPAIR METHOD FOR REMOVING A THERMAL BARRIER COATING General Electric Company TEIXEIRA MOFFAT, JONATHAN CHARLES 3700 §103§112 Non-Final OA 177d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2021

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