Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Markforged Inc. is currently overseeing 6 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. The prosecution for this portfolio is distributed across 6 distinct examiners. These matters are situated within 5 distinct art units, indicating that the company's technical innovations are being reviewed by several specialized groups. This variety of examiners and art units requires a coordinated strategy to maintain consistency across the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is ZERVOS, NIKOLAOS PHILLIP, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. As an examiner involved, ZERVOS, NIKOLAOS PHILLIP serves as a point of contact for the applicant. For a patent practitioner, this environment requires managing relationships with the assigned personnel. The practitioner must tailor their responses to the expectations of the experts within the Computing & Software field. This structure involves administrative tracking of the 1 pending matter assigned to the busiest examiner while the total volume is 6 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 + other | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZERVOS, NIKOLAOS PHILLIP | 1 | — | — |
| WANG, ZHIPENG | 1 | 80.8% | +23.6% |
| SWANSON, ANDREW L | 1 | 66.5% | +11.9% |
| TRAN, VINCENT HUY | 1 | 86.6% | +9.8% |
| HAUTH, GALEN H | 1 | 64.7% | +17.7% |
| HA, STEVEN S | 1 | 70.4% | +29.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17376689 | COMPOSITES, TOOLING AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | HA, STEVEN S | 110d overdue |
| 19013364 | 3D PRINTING WITH OPTIMIZATION OF PRINT SETTINGS | ZERVOS, NIKOLAOS PHILLIP | — |
| 18785523 | SIDE SUPPORTS FOR TALL PARTS | WANG, ZHIPENG | — |
| 18371273 | DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR VARYING FILAMENT PATH LENGTH | SWANSON, ANDREW L | — |
| 18450641 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING CRITICAL FEATURES USING MACHINE LEARNING | TRAN, VINCENT HUY | — |
| 17577596 | Z-SCALE AND MISALIGNMENT CALIBRATION FOR 3D PRINTING | HAUTH, GALEN H | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17376689 | COMPOSITES, TOOLING AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | HA, STEVEN S | 110d overdue |
| 18785523 | SIDE SUPPORTS FOR TALL PARTS | WANG, ZHIPENG | — |
| 18371273 | DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR VARYING FILAMENT PATH LENGTH | SWANSON, ANDREW L | — |
| 17577596 | Z-SCALE AND MISALIGNMENT CALIBRATION FOR 3D PRINTING | HAUTH, GALEN H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2115 | 2 |
| 2117 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| 1743 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19013364 | 3D PRINTING WITH OPTIMIZATION OF PRINT SETTINGS | ZERVOS, NIKOLAOS PHILLIP | 2117 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18785523 | SIDE SUPPORTS FOR TALL PARTS | WANG, ZHIPENG | 2115 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18371273 | DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR VARYING FILAMENT PATH LENGTH | SWANSON, ANDREW L | 1745 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18450641 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING CRITICAL FEATURES USING MACHINE LEARNING | TRAN, VINCENT HUY | 2115 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 17577596 | Z-SCALE AND MISALIGNMENT CALIBRATION FOR 3D PRINTING | HAUTH, GALEN H | 1743 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2022 |
| 17376689 | COMPOSITES, TOOLING AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | HA, STEVEN S | 1735 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 110d overdue | Pending | Jul 15, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialMarkforged Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Nikolaos Phillip Zervos has the most, with 1 of Markforged Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
