Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Markforged Inc. currently faces 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, reflecting the technical range of the portfolio. The busiest examiner, WANG, ZHIPENG, is responsible for 1 pending office action, matching the count of other examiners.
The presence of 4 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations in Chemistry & Materials are being evaluated across multiple specialized divisions. With 5 distinct examiners involved, the prosecution strategy involves several individual perspectives. This distribution ensures that no single examiner or art unit dominates the current pending workload. The 5 pending office actions are spread across the 4 distinct art units, indicating that the 5 distinct examiners are working in various technical contexts. WANG, ZHIPENG handles 1 pending office action within this Chemistry & Materials portfolio.
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 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WANG, ZHIPENG | 1 | 80.8% | +23.3% |
| SWANSON, ANDREW L | 1 | 66.7% | +11.6% |
| TRAN, VINCENT HUY | 1 | 86.6% | +9.7% |
| HAUTH, GALEN H | 1 | 64.8% | +18.0% |
| HA, STEVEN S | 1 | 70.2% | +30.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 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 | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 1745 | 1 |
| 2115 | 1 |
| 1743 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18785523 | SIDE SUPPORTS FOR TALL PARTS | WANG, ZHIPENG | — | §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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