Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

3D Systems, Inc.

13 pending office actions • 10 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

0
Hard (0%)
12
Medium (92%)
1
Easy (8%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only12 (92%)
§112 only1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

10
Life Sciences
77% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
23% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SULTANA, NAHIDA 1 78.2% +8.5%
ROY, DEBJANI 1 74.6% +15.2%
MOTT, ADAM R 1 74.9% +22.4%
GRAHAM, ANDREW D 1 59.7% +21.9%
WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S 1 58.7% +27.1%
SONG, INJA 1 65.5% +48.1%
NELSON, JAMEL M 1 73.6% +15.9%
BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 1 42.5% +47.2%
EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE 1 66.7% +17.1%
TRAN, THIEN S 1 71.6% +23.9%

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18776803 Modular Frame for Multi-Axis Motion System MOTT, ADAM R 146d overdue
18768361 Stereolithography System with Parallel Processing Between Layer Formation and Selective Curing GRAHAM, ANDREW D 81d overdue
18753010 Stereolithography Apparatus for Improving Localized Planarity of a Transparent Sheet SONG, INJA 60d overdue
18636353 Rotational Stereolithography for Arcuate 3D Articles NELSON, JAMEL M 56d overdue
18122524 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NON-CONTINUOUS DEPOSITION OF A COMPONENT TRAN, THIEN S 38d overdue
18184946 AS-DEPOSITED DATA MODEL FOR DIRECTING MACHINING AFTER ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE 24d overdue
18758614 METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR REDEPLOYING A POLYMER FEEDSTOCK WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S 18d overdue
18800637 Three-Dimensional Printing System with Build Area That is Larger than a Build Plane ROY, DEBJANI 4d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1743 2
1744 2
3761 2
1741 1
3657 1
1742 1
1749 1
1762 1
1617 1
1799 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18935811 PHASE CHANGE INK PRINTING SYSTEM UTILIZING A COMPOSITE WAVEFORM SULTANA, NAHIDA 1743 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Nov 04, 2024
18800637 Three-Dimensional Printing System with Build Area That is Larger than a Build Plane ROY, DEBJANI 1741 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Aug 12, 2024
18776803 Modular Frame for Multi-Axis Motion System MOTT, ADAM R 3657 §103 Non-Final OA 146d overdue Pending Jul 18, 2024
18768361 Stereolithography System with Parallel Processing Between Layer Formation and Selective Curing GRAHAM, ANDREW D 1742 §103 Non-Final OA 81d overdue Pending Jul 10, 2024
18758614 METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR REDEPLOYING A POLYMER FEEDSTOCK WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S 1749 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2024
18753010 Stereolithography Apparatus for Improving Localized Planarity of a Transparent Sheet SONG, INJA 1744 §112 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Jun 25, 2024
18636353 Rotational Stereolithography for Arcuate 3D Articles NELSON, JAMEL M 1743 §103 Non-Final OA 56d overdue Pending Apr 16, 2024
18439042 COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING AN ASPHALTITE ADDITIVE FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 1762 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Feb 12, 2024
18184946 AS-DEPOSITED DATA MODEL FOR DIRECTING MACHINING AFTER ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE 3761 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Mar 16, 2023
18122524 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NON-CONTINUOUS DEPOSITION OF A COMPONENT TRAN, THIEN S 3761 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Mar 16, 2023
17949484 CURABLE COMPOUNDS AND FORMULATIONS FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS PIPIC, ALMA 1617 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Sep 21, 2022
17307880 MICROCOSM BIO-SCAFFOLD AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY 1799 §103 Final Rejection 57d Pending May 04, 2021
16899711 POLYPROPYLENE-BASED PARTICLES FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING ZHAO, XIAO SI 1744 §103 Non-Final OA 103d overdue Pending Jun 12, 2020

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