Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 2 clients • 6 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 40 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hoffman Warnick - GE Vernova is associated with 10623 career applications in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The firm currently manages 5 pending office actions. The resolved allowance rate pct is 87.2, representing the success rate for its resolved applications. This history of 10623 applications provides a robust context for evaluating the firm's performance in the medical device sector.
The average office actions per allowance is 2.94. This figure indicates the amount of examiner interaction typically required to reach an allowance. With 10623 career applications and an 87.2 resolved allowance rate pct, the firm's performance metrics are established across its primary technology area. The average of 2.94 office actions per allowance provides a baseline for predicting prosecution timelines. The 5 pending office actions reflect the firm's current activity for this client relationship.
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.
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.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 5 (83%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REITZ, MICHAEL K. | 1 | 69.2% | +4.2% |
| STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| KANG, EDWIN G | 1 | 64.3% | +66.9% |
| SCHLEIS, DANIEL J | 1 | 71.8% | +4.9% |
| JANSSEN, REBECCA | 1 | 60.4% | +28.3% |
| WANG, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 53.6% | +22.5% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18658035 | BUILD PLATFORM FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING AND RELATED METHOD | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due 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 |
| 18495816 | METAL POROUS REGION FOR COMPONENT PRINTED ON REPLACEMENT REGION OR BASE REGION OF COMPONENT | JANSSEN, REBECCA | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| GE | 5 |
| General Electric | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 1 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 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 |
| 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 | Final Rejection | 54d | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
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