Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
13 pending office actions • 9 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 75 patents granted in the last 365 days
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation manages 13 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are distributed across 9 distinct art units, reflecting a technical footprint within the sector. The prosecution involves 13 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is currently assigned to a unique individual at the patent office. This distribution of actions and examiners suggests that the company's legal team must adapt to a variety of individual examination styles simultaneously.
The busiest examiner for the company is LUONG, HENRY T, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This workload is identical for all 13 examiners involved in the 13 pending actions, indicating no concentration of cases under any single official. The distribution across 9 distinct art units suggests that the company's Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics filings are being evaluated by many different technical groups. Without any examiner overlap, the company must manage 13 separate interactions and sets of feedback. This structure requires a versatile prosecution strategy to address the technical requirements of 13 different examiners across 9 art units. The number of distinct art units relative to the 13 pending actions highlights the specialized nature of each individual application.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 only | 1 (8%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (15%) |
| §103 only | 3 (23%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (46%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUONG, HENRY T | 1 | 75.8% | +18.0% |
| KARACSONY, ROBERT | 1 | 77.1% | +15.3% |
| KIM, CRAIG SANG | 1 | 86.3% | +9.8% |
| KIM, SEOKJIN | 1 | 78.1% | +13.6% |
| CHEN, ALAN S | 1 | 91.0% | +6.7% |
| ZARKA, DAVID PETER | 1 | 82.4% | +13.9% |
| OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | 1 | 62.0% | +9.4% |
| MAHARAJ, DEVIKA S | 1 | 56.8% | +7.7% |
| GRAY, AARON J | 1 | 82.3% | +29.8% |
| JEPPSON, PAMELA J | 1 | 64.1% | +24.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18678702 | DIVERSITY ROUTER INCORPORATED IN NETWORK SYSTEM | ZARKA, DAVID PETER | 4d overdue |
| 19086756 | DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA SYSTEM FOR NOISY ENVIRONMENTS | LUONG, HENRY T | — |
| 19050383 | OPTICALLY TRANSPARENT ANTENNA AND ASSOCIATED ANTENNA ARRAY | KARACSONY, ROBERT | — |
| 18966857 | ELECTRIC THRUSTER WITH THERMIONIC CATHODE IN OXYGEN-RICH ENVIRONMENT | KIM, CRAIG SANG | — |
| 18738672 | EXTREMAL EIGENSTATE DETERMINATION SYSTEM | CHEN, ALAN S | — |
| 18660315 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF LIQUIDS | OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | — |
| 18393263 | DISTRIBUTION-BASED RISK MANAGEMENT IN CLASSIFICATION MODELS | MAHARAJ, DEVIKA S | — |
| 18358603 | CONTINUOUS LONG JOSEPHSON JUNCTION LOGIC GATE SYSTEM | GRAY, AARON 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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18678702 | DIVERSITY ROUTER INCORPORATED IN NETWORK SYSTEM | ZARKA, DAVID PETER | 4d overdue |
| 19086756 | DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA SYSTEM FOR NOISY ENVIRONMENTS | LUONG, HENRY T | — |
| 19050383 | OPTICALLY TRANSPARENT ANTENNA AND ASSOCIATED ANTENNA ARRAY | KARACSONY, ROBERT | — |
| 18965525 | ISOCHRONOUS PHASE-DRIFT TRACKING SYSTEM | KIM, SEOKJIN | — |
| 18358603 | CONTINUOUS LONG JOSEPHSON JUNCTION LOGIC GATE SYSTEM | GRAY, AARON J | — |
| 18158200 | QUASI-LOAD FOLLOWING (Q-LF) HIGH EFFICIENCY FAULT TOLERANT HYBRID ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD | JEPPSON, PAMELA J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2845 | 2 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| 2449 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| 2144 | 1 |
| 1726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19086756 | DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA SYSTEM FOR NOISY ENVIRONMENTS | LUONG, HENRY T | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19050383 | OPTICALLY TRANSPARENT ANTENNA AND ASSOCIATED ANTENNA ARRAY | KARACSONY, ROBERT | 2845 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 18966857 | ELECTRIC THRUSTER WITH THERMIONIC CATHODE IN OXYGEN-RICH ENVIRONMENT | KIM, CRAIG SANG | 3741 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18965525 | ISOCHRONOUS PHASE-DRIFT TRACKING SYSTEM | KIM, SEOKJIN | 2845 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18738672 | EXTREMAL EIGENSTATE DETERMINATION SYSTEM | CHEN, ALAN S | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18678702 | DIVERSITY ROUTER INCORPORATED IN NETWORK SYSTEM | ZARKA, DAVID PETER | 2449 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18660315 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF LIQUIDS | OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | 2853 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18393263 | DISTRIBUTION-BASED RISK MANAGEMENT IN CLASSIFICATION MODELS | MAHARAJ, DEVIKA S | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18358603 | CONTINUOUS LONG JOSEPHSON JUNCTION LOGIC GATE SYSTEM | GRAY, AARON J | 2897 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18158200 | QUASI-LOAD FOLLOWING (Q-LF) HIGH EFFICIENCY FAULT TOLERANT HYBRID ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD | JEPPSON, PAMELA J | 2859 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2023 |
| 17592738 | AUTOMATED METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING SHEETS OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND COMPOSITE STRUCTURES, PATTERN PREPARATION AND FORMING SYSTEMS, AND SHEETS OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL | KOCH, GEORGE R | 1745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Feb 04, 2022 |
| 17404160 | MACHINE LEARNING CLASSIFICATION OF SIGNALS AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA | DASGUPTA, SHOURJO | 2144 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2021 |
| 16943440 | FLEXIBLE SOLAR ARRAY FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL DEPLOYMENT | TRINH, THANH TRUC | 1726 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2020 |
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