Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

BLUE ORIGIN, LLC

9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 54 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (4)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%)
4
Medium (44%)
3
Easy (33%)
2
Unknown (22%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (33%)
§102 only1 (11%)
§112 only3 (33%)
No statute on record2 (22%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
44% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
11% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
44% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SAAD, ERIN BARRY 2 72.4% +11.2%
MUROMOTO JR, ROBERT H 1 66.5% -11.0%
RODRIGUEZ, VICENTE M 1 77.4% +15.0%
ISLAM, SANJIDUL 1 60.9% +40.4%
PARKER, LAURA EBERT 1 57.3% +30.7%
MEKHLIN, ELI S 1 60.0% +48.6%
YE, XINWEN 1 43.4% +46.1%
LEE, SANGKYUNG 1 61.4% +7.2%

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18750236 LAUNCH VEHICLE WITH RING BAFFLES ISLAM, SANJIDUL 10d overdue
19190325 FRICTION STIR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING FORMED PARTS AND STRUCTURES WITH INTEGRATED PASSAGES SAAD, ERIN BARRY 4d overdue
18629643 FABRICATING SOLAR CELL COVERGLASS FROM MOLTEN REGOLITH ELECTROLYSIS ELECTROLYTE MEKHLIN, ELI S 8d
18945197 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR SURFACE PREPARATION FOR BOND ENHANCEMENT IN ADDITIVE DEPOSITION PROCESSES SAAD, ERIN BARRY 12d
18630944 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO REVERSIBLY COUPLE A ROUNDING RING TO A TANK PARKER, LAURA EBERT 15d
18490580 POWDER RECYCLING IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS, AND RELATED METHODS YE, XINWEN 26d
19063067 SATELLITE DISPENSING SYSTEM RODRIGUEZ, VICENTE M 40d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1735 2
3732 1
3642 1
3736 1
3733 1
1759 1
1754 1
2858 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19276546 SELF-ADAPTIVE FABRIC FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS MUROMOTO JR, ROBERT H 3732 Other Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2025
19190325 FRICTION STIR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING FORMED PARTS AND STRUCTURES WITH INTEGRATED PASSAGES SAAD, ERIN BARRY 1735 Other Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Apr 25, 2025
19063067 SATELLITE DISPENSING SYSTEM RODRIGUEZ, VICENTE M 3642 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending Feb 25, 2025
18945197 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR SURFACE PREPARATION FOR BOND ENHANCEMENT IN ADDITIVE DEPOSITION PROCESSES SAAD, ERIN BARRY 1735 §112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Nov 12, 2024
18750236 LAUNCH VEHICLE WITH RING BAFFLES ISLAM, SANJIDUL 3736 §102 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jun 21, 2024
18630944 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO REVERSIBLY COUPLE A ROUNDING RING TO A TANK PARKER, LAURA EBERT 3733 §112 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Apr 09, 2024
18629643 FABRICATING SOLAR CELL COVERGLASS FROM MOLTEN REGOLITH ELECTROLYSIS ELECTROLYTE MEKHLIN, ELI S 1759 §112 Final Rejection 8d Pending Apr 08, 2024
18490580 POWDER RECYCLING IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS, AND RELATED METHODS YE, XINWEN 1754 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Oct 19, 2023
17932007 CAPTURING TIMESTAMP-BASED DATA IN A DYNAMICALLY ALIGNED WINDOW LEE, SANGKYUNG 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Sep 14, 2022

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