Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 39 patents granted in the last 365 days
Agency for Defense Development has 9 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 9 distinct examiners and 9 distinct art units. This one-to-one ratio indicates that each pending matter is being handled by a different examiner in a different art unit, reflecting a highly decentralized prosecution landscape for the agency's mechanical systems filings. This requires a unique strategy for each individual case.
ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. Since there are 9 pending actions in total, the workload is divided equally among the 9 distinct examiners. The agency must navigate nine separate prosecution paths, each with its own examiner and art unit. This distribution requires a broad management approach to handle the diverse requirements of 9 different examiners across the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. No concentration of workload exists under a single examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 4 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAWRENCE, JOHN CALEB | 2 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN | 1 | 46.9% | +31.6% |
| ALAM, SALIM JOSEPH | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| TSAI, TSUNG YIN | 1 | 81.6% | +11.6% |
| PLUMB, NIGEL H | 1 | 90.7% | +1.1% |
| VAZQUEZ, ANA M | 1 | 80.0% | +17.7% |
| GONG, KRIS HANYU | 1 | 25.0% | +48.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18519495 | LOW-PRESSURE BOILING COOLING SYSTEM | VAZQUEZ, ANA M | 17d overdue |
| 18931482 | METHOD FOR CHANGING TARGET SHOOTING CYCLE FOR RECONNAISSANCE OF TARGET AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME | TSAI, TSUNG YIN | — |
| 18610962 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING TOPOLOGY BASED ON RECOGNITION OF ORBITAL CHARACTERISTICS OF LOW EARTH ORBIT SATELLITE CONSTELLATION SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INSTRUCTIONS TO PERFORM METHOD FOR GENERATING TOPOLOGY | LAWRENCE, JOHN CALEB | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18598494 | Electronic Apparatus for Jamming and Operation Method Thereof | LAWRENCE, JOHN CALEB | 22d |
| 19077259 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING SIGNAL AND APPARATUS THEREOF | ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN | — |
| 18941329 | COOLING INTAKE DUCT STRUCTURE WITH BULLETPROOF GRILL FOR MILITARY HYBRID VEHICLES | ALAM, SALIM JOSEPH | — |
| 18760854 | ZINC OXIDE SYNTHESIS TECHNOLOGY THAT SIMULTANEOUSLY PRODUCES UNIFORM GOLD NANOPARTICLE FORMATION AND SURFACE DEFECTS | PLUMB, NIGEL H | — |
| 18145321 | MOTION ASSIST APPARATUS | GONG, KRIS HANYU | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18519495 | LOW-PRESSURE BOILING COOLING SYSTEM | VAZQUEZ, ANA M | 17d overdue |
| 19077259 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING SIGNAL AND APPARATUS THEREOF | ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN | — |
| 18931482 | METHOD FOR CHANGING TARGET SHOOTING CYCLE FOR RECONNAISSANCE OF TARGET AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME | TSAI, TSUNG YIN | — |
| 18145321 | MOTION ASSIST APPARATUS | GONG, KRIS HANYU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2646 | 2 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| 3612 | 1 |
| 2656 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19077259 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING SIGNAL AND APPARATUS THEREOF | ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN | 3645 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 18941329 | COOLING INTAKE DUCT STRUCTURE WITH BULLETPROOF GRILL FOR MILITARY HYBRID VEHICLES | ALAM, SALIM JOSEPH | 3612 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18931482 | METHOD FOR CHANGING TARGET SHOOTING CYCLE FOR RECONNAISSANCE OF TARGET AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME | TSAI, TSUNG YIN | 2656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18760854 | ZINC OXIDE SYNTHESIS TECHNOLOGY THAT SIMULTANEOUSLY PRODUCES UNIFORM GOLD NANOPARTICLE FORMATION AND SURFACE DEFECTS | PLUMB, NIGEL H | 2855 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18610962 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING TOPOLOGY BASED ON RECOGNITION OF ORBITAL CHARACTERISTICS OF LOW EARTH ORBIT SATELLITE CONSTELLATION SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INSTRUCTIONS TO PERFORM METHOD FOR GENERATING TOPOLOGY | LAWRENCE, JOHN CALEB | 2646 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18598494 | Electronic Apparatus for Jamming and Operation Method Thereof | LAWRENCE, JOHN CALEB | 2646 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18519495 | LOW-PRESSURE BOILING COOLING SYSTEM | VAZQUEZ, ANA M | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 18145321 | MOTION ASSIST APPARATUS | GONG, KRIS HANYU | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAgency for Defense Development has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 7 examiners.
John Caleb Lawrence has the most, with 2 of Agency for Defense Development's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
