Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Macdonald Dettwiler And Associates Inc. has 5 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 5 examiners across 5 art units, indicating distinct assignments throughout the docket.
AZHAR, ARSLAN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The absence of a repeated examiner assignment supports individualized prosecution planning rather than a common examiner strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RINK, RYAN J | 1 | 78.6% | +10.7% |
| AZHAR, ARSLAN | 1 | 78.7% | +20.1% |
| SKAIST, AVI T. | 1 | 64.5% | +42.3% |
| HOLLY, LEE A | 1 | 75.0% | +5.9% |
| ALHAWAMDEH, NADER J | 1 | 91.5% | +10.1% |
| YOON, CHANEL J | 1 | 55.5% | +39.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18717259 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND DEVICE FOR DUST TOLERANT ROBOTIC INTERFACE | ALHAWAMDEH, NADER J | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18908485 | OPTICAL SYSTEM, METHOD, AND DEVICE TO INCREASE LIDAR DYNAMIC RANGE | SKAIST, AVI T. | — |
| 18720567 | ROBOTIC SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR GRAPPLING AND ACTUATING A PAYLOAD | HOLLY, LEE A | — |
| 18007632 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR NON-INVASIVE AND CONTINUOUS HEMODYNAMIC MEASUREMENT | YOON, CHANEL J | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19368485 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMULATION OF DYNAMIC SYSTEMS IN VARIOUS GRAVITY ENVIRONMENTS | RINK, RYAN J | — |
| 19061606 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC INSPECTION IN SPACE | AZHAR, ARSLAN | — |
| 18908485 | OPTICAL SYSTEM, METHOD, AND DEVICE TO INCREASE LIDAR DYNAMIC RANGE | SKAIST, AVI T. | — |
| 18717259 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND DEVICE FOR DUST TOLERANT ROBOTIC INTERFACE | ALHAWAMDEH, NADER J | — |
| 18007632 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR NON-INVASIVE AND CONTINUOUS HEMODYNAMIC MEASUREMENT | YOON, CHANEL J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3656 | 2 |
| 3674 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| 2831 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19368485 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMULATION OF DYNAMIC SYSTEMS IN VARIOUS GRAVITY ENVIRONMENTS | RINK, RYAN J | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2025 |
| 19061606 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC INSPECTION IN SPACE | AZHAR, ARSLAN | 3656 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 18908485 | OPTICAL SYSTEM, METHOD, AND DEVICE TO INCREASE LIDAR DYNAMIC RANGE | SKAIST, AVI T. | 3674 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18720567 | ROBOTIC SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR GRAPPLING AND ACTUATING A PAYLOAD | HOLLY, LEE A | 3726 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18717259 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND DEVICE FOR DUST TOLERANT ROBOTIC INTERFACE | ALHAWAMDEH, NADER J | 2831 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18007632 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR NON-INVASIVE AND CONTINUOUS HEMODYNAMIC MEASUREMENT | YOON, CHANEL J | 3791 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMacdonald Dettwiler And Associates Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Ryan J Rink has the most, with 1 of Macdonald Dettwiler And Associates Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
