Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

BAE Systems PLC

35 pending office actions • 23 art units • 34 examiners • 0 of 35 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 81 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

35
Total Pending OAs
28
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
5
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 33 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

13
Overdue
3
Due this week
8
Due this month
8
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 33 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (13)Due ≤ 7 days (3)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due ≤ 60 days (8)Due later (1)

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 (9%)
26
Medium (74%)
6
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (9%)
§103 only23 (66%)
§102 only3 (9%)
§112 only6 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
3% of docket
6
Information Tech
17% of docket
2
Communications
6% of docket
17
Semiconductors
49% of docket
9
Mechanical / Eng
26% 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.

350 h
Manual time on pending OAs
70 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
122 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HULKA, JAMES R 2 76.5% +11.6%
ABRISHAMKAR, KAVEH 1 78.0% +17.2%
BACK, AUSTIN M 1 77.8% +25.9%
ZHU, NOAH YI MIN 1 80.6% +14.3%
LEI, JIE 1 72.6% +16.7%
SONG, MATTHEW J 1 60.4% +14.0%
SIDDIQUEE, ISMAAEEL ABDULLAH 1 76.1% +19.6%
COLLINS, JASON M 1 74.6% +12.9%
HOFFBERG, ROBERT JOSEPH 1 72.2% +23.6%
NGUYEN, TRUC T 1 87.4% +7.1%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18439352 CONFIGURABLE INTERFACE FOR MODULAR ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS NGUYEN, TRUC T 41d
18654401 COMPRESSIVE SENSING CORRELATION INTERFEROMETER DIRECTION FINDING ZHU, NOAH YI MIN 55d

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
18080444 EXTENSIBLE PROTECTED OPEN DATA FRAMEWORK RIGGINS, ARI FAITH COLEMA 9d overdue
18526154 RISLEY PRISM OPTICAL POINTING CONTROLLER NGUYEN, DUNG T 1d overdue
18066390 SIGNAL SORTING AND EVALUATION TECHNIQUES KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG 28d

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18132533 COMPACT PORTABLE NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR GPS-CHALLENGED REGIONS HULKA, JAMES R 31d overdue
18593437 MULTI-STAGE MULTI-BURST SIGNAL ACQUISITION SIDDIQUEE, ISMAAEEL ABDULLAH 9d overdue
18784512 SYSTEM OF TRUST FOR FUSED SENSOR NETWORKS ABRISHAMKAR, KAVEH 5d
18581551 AUXILIARY PRECISION TIMEKEEPER FOR GPS RECEIVER COLLINS, JASON M 13d
18582225 LIQUID COOLED POWER AMPLIFIER WITH INTERNAL FLUID CHANNELIZATION HOFFBERG, ROBERT JOSEPH 26d
18654401 COMPRESSIVE SENSING CORRELATION INTERFEROMETER DIRECTION FINDING ZHU, NOAH YI MIN 55d
18090974 AIRBORNE OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF UNDERWATER SOUND SOURCES HULKA, JAMES R 56d
18609831 LAUNCH-INITIATED EYELID WINDOW PROTECTION COVER LEI, JIE 60d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3648 7
2845 3
2872 2
2812 2
3645 2
2858 2
2494 1
1714 1
2831 1
2835 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18784512 SYSTEM OF TRUST FOR FUSED SENSOR NETWORKS ABRISHAMKAR, KAVEH 2494 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Jul 25, 2024
18752078 FLEXIBLE ANTENNA FOR UNMANNED UNDERWATER VEHICLES BACK, AUSTIN M 2845 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 24, 2024
18654401 COMPRESSIVE SENSING CORRELATION INTERFEROMETER DIRECTION FINDING ZHU, NOAH YI MIN 3648 §112 Non-Final OA 55d Pending May 03, 2024
18609831 LAUNCH-INITIATED EYELID WINDOW PROTECTION COVER LEI, JIE 2872 §102 Non-Final OA 60d Pending Mar 19, 2024
18600906 TRANSPARENT HORIZONTAL GRADIENT FREEZE APPARATUS WITH REGULATED GROWTH RATE SONG, MATTHEW J 1714 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Mar 11, 2024
18593437 MULTI-STAGE MULTI-BURST SIGNAL ACQUISITION SIDDIQUEE, ISMAAEEL ABDULLAH 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2024
18581551 AUXILIARY PRECISION TIMEKEEPER FOR GPS RECEIVER COLLINS, JASON M 2831 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Feb 20, 2024
18582225 LIQUID COOLED POWER AMPLIFIER WITH INTERNAL FLUID CHANNELIZATION HOFFBERG, ROBERT JOSEPH 2835 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Feb 20, 2024
18439352 CONFIGURABLE INTERFACE FOR MODULAR ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS NGUYEN, TRUC T 2834 §102 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Feb 12, 2024
18421088 TECHNIQUES FOR ENCRYPTING BUS COMMUNICATIONS HAILU, KIBROM T 2461 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jan 24, 2024
18526154 RISLEY PRISM OPTICAL POINTING CONTROLLER NGUYEN, DUNG T 2871 §101 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Dec 01, 2023
18387181 MODULAR AND SCALABLE SWITCH MATRIX TOPOLOGY HAILE, AWET A 2474 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Nov 06, 2023
18451396 ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED ANTENNA WITH INVERTED HAT MONOPOLE ELEMENT WOODS, BRANDON SEAN 2845 §103 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Aug 17, 2023
18365509 JAMMING AS A BISTATIC RADAR SOURCE GOOD, KENNETH W 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Aug 04, 2023
18222658 ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED PROBE FED PATCH ANTENNA SINGH, GURBIR 2845 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jul 17, 2023
18331491 GPS SATELLITE SIGNAL AUTHENTICATION BASED ON RELATIVE GAIN USING BEAMFORMING ANTENNA ELECTRONICS HENSON, BRANDON JAMES 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Jun 27, 2023
18206731 INLINE RESISTOR INTEGRATED WITH CONDUCTIVE CONTACT PAD STRUCTURE TANG, ALICE W 2814 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jun 07, 2023
18330880 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING ADS-B TRACKS RAYNAL, ASHLEY BROWN 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Jun 07, 2023
18206325 PATTERNING USING MONOMER BASED SACRIFICIAL MATERIAL LIFTOFF OZDEN, ILKER NMN 2812 §112 Non-Final OA 120d overdue Pending Jun 06, 2023
18319247 LOW F NUMBER REFRACTIVE TELESCOPE WITH DYNAMIC ALTITUDE COMPENSATION SUN, PINPING 2872 §112 Non-Final OA 55d Pending May 17, 2023
18308095 SYNCHRONIZATION OF DIGITAL ANTENNA CONTROLLER DATA FOR APPLICATIONS USING ASYNCHRONOUS INTERFACES SHAH, TANMAY K 2632 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Apr 27, 2023
18132533 COMPACT PORTABLE NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR GPS-CHALLENGED REGIONS HULKA, JAMES R 3645 §112 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Apr 10, 2023
18297798 RESILIENT CONDUCTIVE BUMP FOR MICROELECTRONIC TESTING HOLLINGTON, JERMELE M 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Apr 10, 2023
18168805 REACTIVELY MATCHED AND DISTRIBUTED POWER AMPLIFIER TOPLOGY BARTOL, LANCE TORBJORN 2843 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Feb 14, 2023
18158847 GNSS RECEIVER INITIALIZATION USING SECURE WIRELESS DATA TRANSFER GUYAH, REMASH RAJA 3648 §103 Final Rejection 50d Pending Jan 24, 2023
18153470 COAXIAL I/O DIE MAZUMDER, DIDARUL A 2812 §102 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jan 12, 2023
18090940 AIRBORNE OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF UNDERWATER SOUND SOURCES SPLIT, JAMES GERALD 2858 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 29, 2022
18090974 AIRBORNE OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF UNDERWATER SOUND SOURCES HULKA, JAMES R 3645 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Dec 29, 2022
18066390 SIGNAL SORTING AND EVALUATION TECHNIQUES KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG 2857 §101 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Dec 15, 2022
18080444 EXTENSIBLE PROTECTED OPEN DATA FRAMEWORK RIGGINS, ARI FAITH COLEMA 2197 §101 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2022
17847892 POLYPHASE FILTER FOR A DYNAMICALLY RECONFIGURABLE OVERSAMPLED CHANNELIZER LAROCQUE, EMILY E 2182 §112 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Jun 23, 2022
17847901 FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM (FFT) BUTTERFLY CIRCUIT FOR A DYNAMICALLY RECONFIGURABLE OVERSAMPLED CHANNELIZER VILLANUEVA, MARKUS ANTHONY 2151 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jun 23, 2022
17844393 COEFFICIENT OF THERMAL EXPANSION MATCHED MOUNTING TECHNIQUE FOR HIGH POWER LASER FORDE, DELMA ROSA 2828 §112 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jun 20, 2022
17752925 HYBRID RADAR AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS HODAC, ERIC KHOI 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending May 25, 2022
17709573 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTENT BASED VIDEO ORGANIZATION, PRIORITIZATION, AND RETRIEVAL VANCHY JR, MICHAEL J 2666 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Mar 31, 2022

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