Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
13 pending office actions • 12 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 41 patents granted in the last 365 days
National Aeronautics and Space Administration has 13 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 13 examiners across 12 art units, indicating broad distribution by examiner and near-equivalent distribution by technical unit. The matching pending-action and examiner figures show that each recorded matter has a separate examiner assignment.
GIBSON, RANDY W is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The profile therefore does not identify a dominant examiner concentration. Counsel managing this docket should prioritize portfolio-wide consistency, matter-level tracking, and tailored responses for the separate examination assignments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (15%) |
| §103 only | 6 (46%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (31%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIBSON, RANDY W | 1 | 75.8% | +22.2% |
| CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE | 1 | 51.6% | +39.3% |
| MARTINEZ, JOSEPH P | 1 | 86.0% | +3.2% |
| KRUER, KEVIN R | 1 | 26.6% | +29.5% |
| SOOFI, YAZAN A | 1 | 89.2% | +11.0% |
| RASNIC, HUNTER J | 1 | 10.9% | +21.6% |
| RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | 1 | 54.5% | +27.8% |
| LEVI, DAMEON E | 1 | 64.8% | +1.8% |
| PLESZCZYNSKA, JOANNA | 1 | 54.5% | +27.7% |
| COTHRAN, BERNARD E | 1 | 45.2% | +15.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18662368 | SOLID-STATE FREQUENCY AGILE FILTER FOR LIDAR: MULTILAYER OPTICAL DESIGN AND EXOTIC PHASE-CHANGE MATERIALS-BASED ACTIVE TUNING | MARTINEZ, JOSEPH P | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18515868 | Pervasive and Ubiquitous Decentralized Biocybernetic Adaptation and Biofeedback Training System | RASNIC, HUNTER J | 105d overdue |
| 18640062 | HYDROGEN-BONDING SURFACES FOR ICE MITIGATION | KRUER, KEVIN R | 28d |
| 18395461 | VISION-BASED APPROACH AND LANDING SYSTEM | SOOFI, YAZAN A | — |
| 18387929 | MAGNETIC COUPLING SYSTEM FOR CONDUITS | RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | — |
| 18383195 | DUAL POLARIZED, WIDE BAND, LIGHT WEIGHT P-BAND ANTENNA ELEMENT AND ARRAY | LEVI, DAMEON E | — |
| 18143719 | Method of Generating a Model for Additive Manufacturing | COTHRAN, BERNARD E | — |
| 17881725 | PROCESS FOR IMPROVING CREEP AND STRESS RELAXATION OF FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER COMPOSITES | BOWMAN, ANDREW 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18515868 | Pervasive and Ubiquitous Decentralized Biocybernetic Adaptation and Biofeedback Training System | RASNIC, HUNTER J | 105d overdue |
| 18640062 | HYDROGEN-BONDING SURFACES FOR ICE MITIGATION | KRUER, KEVIN R | 28d |
| 18932002 | System and Method for Inspection of Low Emissivity Surfaces Using a Pulsed Light Emitting Diode Heat Source for Thermal Nondestructive Evaluation | GIBSON, RANDY W | — |
| 18735255 | LED INTENSITY DECAY PARTICLE TRACKING VELOCIMETRY | CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE | — |
| 18395461 | VISION-BASED APPROACH AND LANDING SYSTEM | SOOFI, YAZAN A | — |
| 18387929 | MAGNETIC COUPLING SYSTEM FOR CONDUITS | RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | — |
| 18238137 | Composite Deployable Into Structure | PLESZCZYNSKA, JOANNA | — |
| 18143719 | Method of Generating a Model for Additive Manufacturing | COTHRAN, BERNARD E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3668 | 2 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 3684 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| 2845 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 2188 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18932002 | System and Method for Inspection of Low Emissivity Surfaces Using a Pulsed Light Emitting Diode Heat Source for Thermal Nondestructive Evaluation | GIBSON, RANDY W | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18735255 | LED INTENSITY DECAY PARTICLE TRACKING VELOCIMETRY | CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18662368 | SOLID-STATE FREQUENCY AGILE FILTER FOR LIDAR: MULTILAYER OPTICAL DESIGN AND EXOTIC PHASE-CHANGE MATERIALS-BASED ACTIVE TUNING | MARTINEZ, JOSEPH P | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18640062 | HYDROGEN-BONDING SURFACES FOR ICE MITIGATION | KRUER, KEVIN R | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18395461 | VISION-BASED APPROACH AND LANDING SYSTEM | SOOFI, YAZAN A | 3668 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18515868 | Pervasive and Ubiquitous Decentralized Biocybernetic Adaptation and Biofeedback Training System | RASNIC, HUNTER J | 3684 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 105d overdue | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18387929 | MAGNETIC COUPLING SYSTEM FOR CONDUITS | RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | 3679 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 18383195 | DUAL POLARIZED, WIDE BAND, LIGHT WEIGHT P-BAND ANTENNA ELEMENT AND ARRAY | LEVI, DAMEON E | 2845 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
| 18238137 | Composite Deployable Into Structure | PLESZCZYNSKA, JOANNA | 1783 | — | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
| 18143719 | Method of Generating a Model for Additive Manufacturing | COTHRAN, BERNARD E | 2188 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
| 18171268 | ACTIVE TURBULENCE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A VERTICAL TAKE OFF AND LANDING AIRCRAFT | ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A | 3668 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2023 |
| 18056609 | Cryogenic Elastomer from Ionic Liquid Epoxy | OYER, ANDREW J | 1767 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Nov 17, 2022 |
| 17881725 | PROCESS FOR IMPROVING CREEP AND STRESS RELAXATION OF FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER COMPOSITES | BOWMAN, ANDREW J | 1717 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialNational Aeronautics and Space Administration has 13 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 12 art units and 13 examiners.
Randy W Gibson has the most, with 1 of National Aeronautics and Space Administration's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.