Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Venable LLP (Ge Aviation)

20 pending office actions • 3 clients • 17 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 126 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

20
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
11
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
2
Due this week
9
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (9)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (3)

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%)
17
Medium (85%)
2
Easy (10%)
1
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only14 (70%)
§102 only3 (15%)
§112 only2 (10%)
No statute on record1 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
15% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
17
Mechanical / Eng
85% 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.

200 h
Manual time on pending OAs
40 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
70 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HARRINGTON, ALYSON JOAN 2 75.0% +62.6%
SEBASCO CHENG, STEPHANIE 2 58.5% +70.7%
LIU, JINGCHEN 2 61.3% +64.1%
RODRIGUEZ, WILLIAM H 1 89.9% +3.3%
KNIGHT, DEREK DOUGLAS 1 84.9% +3.2%
HEINLE, COURTNEY D 1 76.2% +17.7%
WIEHE, NATHANIEL EDWARD 1 51.5% +32.8%
WOLCOTT, BRIAN P 1 77.6% +29.7%
MEILLER, SEAN V 1 77.5% +36.0%
DUGER, JASON H 1 70.5% +51.0%

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
19170780 TURBINE ENGINE GEARBOX ASSEMBLY KNIGHT, DEREK DOUGLAS 43d

Interview Candidates (11)

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
19073591 COMPOSITE STRUCTURE FOR A TURBINE ENGINE WOLCOTT, BRIAN P 23d overdue
18323604 OXYGEN REDUCTION SYSTEM FOR A HYDROCARBON FLUID LIU, JINGCHEN 22d overdue
19003582 GEARBOX ASSEMBLY WITH LUBRICANT EXTRACTION VOLUME RATIO SEBASCO CHENG, STEPHANIE 18d overdue
18990617 GEARBOX ASSEMBLY WITH LUBRICANT EXTRACTION VOLUME RATIO MEILLER, SEAN V 5d
18536610 HEAT SHIELD FOR A GAS TURBINE ENGINE HARRINGTON, ALYSON JOAN 6d
19078842 GEARBOX ASSEMBLY WIEHE, NATHANIEL EDWARD 8d
19047295 MULTI-TEMPERATURE FUEL INJECTORS FOR A GAS TURBINE ENGINE SEBASCO CHENG, STEPHANIE 13d
19266885 TURBINE ENGINE WITH THREE AIR STREAMS HARRINGTON, ALYSON JOAN 19d

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
374110
37453
36551
37111
17711
17411
37991
36751
17341

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19266885 TURBINE ENGINE WITH THREE AIR STREAMS General Electric Company HARRINGTON, ALYSON JOAN 3741 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Jul 11, 2025
19234965 FUEL INJECTOR MANIFOLD FOR A TURBINE ENGINE General Electric Company RODRIGUEZ, WILLIAM H 3741 Other Non-Final OA 71d Pending Jun 11, 2025
19170780 TURBINE ENGINE GEARBOX ASSEMBLY GE Aviation Czech S.R.O. KNIGHT, DEREK DOUGLAS 3655 §103 Final Rejection 43d Pending Apr 04, 2025
19080359 PASSIVE AUXILIARY LUBRICATION SYSTEM General Electric Company HEINLE, COURTNEY D 3745 §102 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Mar 14, 2025
19078842 GEARBOX ASSEMBLY General Electric Company WIEHE, NATHANIEL EDWARD 3745 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Mar 13, 2025
19073591 COMPOSITE STRUCTURE FOR A TURBINE ENGINE General Electric Company WOLCOTT, BRIAN P 3711 §102 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2025
19047295 MULTI-TEMPERATURE FUEL INJECTORS FOR A GAS TURBINE ENGINE General Electric Company SEBASCO CHENG, STEPHANIE 3741 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Feb 06, 2025
19003582 GEARBOX ASSEMBLY WITH LUBRICANT EXTRACTION VOLUME RATIO GE Avio S.r.l. SEBASCO CHENG, STEPHANIE 3741 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Dec 27, 2024
18990617 GEARBOX ASSEMBLY WITH LUBRICANT EXTRACTION VOLUME RATIO GE Avio S.r.l. MEILLER, SEAN V 3741 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Dec 20, 2024
18746642 GAS TURBINE ENGINE INCLUDING FUEL INJECTOR General Electric Company DUGER, JASON H 3741 §112 Final Rejection 56d Pending Jun 18, 2024
18743619 FRICTION REDUCING COATINGS General Electric Company VASISTH, VISHAL V 1771 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Jun 14, 2024
18678274 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A WOVEN FABRIC FOR A COMPOSITE COMPONENT General Electric Company ROY, DEBJANI 1741 §103 Final Rejection 71d Pending May 30, 2024
18664933 Turbine Engine Having a Damper General Electric Company KIM, TAE JUN 3799 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending May 15, 2024
18400514 ROTOR DAMPING DEVICES FOR A TURBOMACHINE General Electric Company REITZ, MICHAEL K. 3745 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Dec 29, 2023
18536843 SEAL ASSEMBLY HAVING AT LEAST ONE DAMPING ELEMENT General Electric Company KONERU, LAKSHMI S 3675 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Dec 12, 2023
18536610 HEAT SHIELD FOR A GAS TURBINE ENGINE General Electric Company HARRINGTON, ALYSON JOAN 3741 §102 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Dec 12, 2023
18463774 TURBINE ENGINE INCLUDING A FUEL SYSTEM General Electric Company LIU, JINGCHEN 3741 §112 Final Rejection 30d Pending Sep 08, 2023
18451429 TURBINE ENGINE INCLUDING A STEAM SYSTEM General Electric Company BURKE, THOMAS P 3741 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Aug 17, 2023
18323604 OXYGEN REDUCTION SYSTEM FOR A HYDROCARBON FLUID General Electric Company LIU, JINGCHEN 3741 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending May 25, 2023
18319714 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IN-SITU COKE REMOVAL FROM HOT-GAS PATH SURFACES General Electric Company MCDONOUGH, JAMES E 1734 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending May 18, 2023

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