Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Macdonald Dettwiler And Associates Inc. currently faces 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. ARSLAN AZHAR is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending action. The presence of 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending office actions shows that each pending matter is assigned to a different individual.
The distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests some technical variety in the company's mechanical and transportation-related filings. This variety requires the company to manage prosecution across multiple specialized groups within the USPTO. Having 3 distinct examiners involved means that the company's legal representatives must be prepared for a range of individual examiner behaviors and technical interpretations. The focus on 2 distinct art units indicates that while the examiners are different, the technology remains concentrated within a few specialized fields.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AZHAR, ARSLAN | 1 | 78.8% | +19.6% |
| HOLLY, LEE A | 1 | 75.0% | +5.9% |
| ALHAWAMDEH, NADER J | 1 | 91.5% | +10.2% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18720567 | ROBOTIC SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR GRAPPLING AND ACTUATING A PAYLOAD | HOLLY, LEE A | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19061606 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC INSPECTION IN SPACE | AZHAR, ARSLAN | — |
| 18717259 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND DEVICE FOR DUST TOLERANT ROBOTIC INTERFACE | ALHAWAMDEH, NADER J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3656 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19061606 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC INSPECTION IN SPACE | AZHAR, ARSLAN | 3656 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 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 | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
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