Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Lockheed Martin Corporation

13 pending office actions • 12 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 76 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
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.

4
Overdue
2
Due this week
7
Due this month
0
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 (4)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (7)

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.

1
Hard (8%)
11
Medium (85%)
1
Easy (8%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (8%)
§103 only10 (77%)
§102 only1 (8%)
§112 only1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
8% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
3
Semiconductors
23% of docket
9
Mechanical / Eng
69% 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
SALEHI, HELAI 1 72.7% +32.2%
HAMADYK, ANNA N 1 85.4% +9.5%
CROSBY JR, RICHARD D 1 68.7% +16.4%
KNIGHT, CONNOR LEE 1 73.6% +18.2%
PRUITT, JUSTIN A 1 62.5% +14.8%
BUKHARI, AQEEL H 1 85.6% +14.2%
ROGERS, ADAM D 1 82.1% +22.8%
MUELLER, SARAH ALEXANDRA 1 60.0% +39.2%
QUINN, DANIEL MICHAEL 1 68.8% +37.5%
WAKELY, REECE ANTHONY 1 21.4% +91.7%

Quick Wins (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18630744 ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT WITH POWER GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM BUKHARI, AQEEL H 7d
18752546 BROADBAND PHASED ARRAY WITH INTRA-ELEMENT MONOLITHS HAMADYK, ANNA N 8d
18534882 HOUSING AND METHOD OF PREPARING SAME USING A HYBRID CASTING-ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESS ROGERS, ADAM D 16d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18452259 INTEGRATED STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR AIRCRAFT WAKELY, REECE ANTHONY 5d

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
18635872 LOW DRAG AIRFOIL PRUITT, JUSTIN A 70d overdue
18481634 MARKING END EFFECTORS FOR ROBOTIC SYSTEMS QUINN, DANIEL MICHAEL 22d overdue
18943123 DECENTRALIZED MISSION PLANNING, COMMAND, AND CONTROL SALEHI, HELAI 17d overdue
18452259 INTEGRATED STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR AIRCRAFT WAKELY, REECE ANTHONY 5d
18630744 ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT WITH POWER GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM BUKHARI, AQEEL H 7d
18660344 AIRSPEED DRIVEN TILT ANGLE FOR ELECTRIC TILTROTOR AIRCRAFT KNIGHT, CONNOR LEE 12d
18534882 HOUSING AND METHOD OF PREPARING SAME USING A HYBRID CASTING-ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESS ROGERS, ADAM D 16d
18503534 COLLECTIVE CONTROL USING VERTICAL VELOCITY MUELLER, SARAH ALEXANDRA 19d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3666 2
2433 1
2845 1
3724 1
3745 1
2849 1
3617 1
3669 1
2855 1
3667 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18943123 DECENTRALIZED MISSION PLANNING, COMMAND, AND CONTROL SALEHI, HELAI 2433 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Nov 11, 2024
18752546 BROADBAND PHASED ARRAY WITH INTRA-ELEMENT MONOLITHS HAMADYK, ANNA N 2845 §112 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jun 24, 2024
18734202 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED CUTTING CROSBY JR, RICHARD D 3724 §102 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jun 05, 2024
18660344 AIRSPEED DRIVEN TILT ANGLE FOR ELECTRIC TILTROTOR AIRCRAFT KNIGHT, CONNOR LEE 3666 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending May 10, 2024
18635872 LOW DRAG AIRFOIL PRUITT, JUSTIN A 3745 §103 Final Rejection 70d overdue Pending Apr 15, 2024
18630744 ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT WITH POWER GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM BUKHARI, AQEEL H 2849 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Apr 09, 2024
18534882 HOUSING AND METHOD OF PREPARING SAME USING A HYBRID CASTING-ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESS ROGERS, ADAM D 3617 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Dec 11, 2023
18503534 COLLECTIVE CONTROL USING VERTICAL VELOCITY MUELLER, SARAH ALEXANDRA 3669 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Nov 07, 2023
18481634 MARKING END EFFECTORS FOR ROBOTIC SYSTEMS QUINN, DANIEL MICHAEL 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Oct 05, 2023
18452259 INTEGRATED STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR AIRCRAFT WAKELY, REECE ANTHONY 3667 §101 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Aug 18, 2023
18146713 AUGMENTING PILOTED DISPLAY DATA WITH PROCESSED DATA CASS, JEAN PAUL 3666 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Dec 27, 2022
17932424 WING TANK VAPORIZER FOR SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELL ON UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SANDERSON, JOSEPH W 3619 §103 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Sep 15, 2022
16889706 GEOMETRIC PHASE AND OFF-AXIS OPTICS FOR REDUCED BACKSCATTER XIAO, YUQING 3645 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Jun 01, 2020

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