Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. has 1 pending office action in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. It is assigned to 1 examiner and 1 art unit, creating a focused examination channel.
MENEFEE, JAMES A is the listed examiner and handles 1 pending matter. The prosecution plan can concentrate on that examiner’s treatment of the application.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONLON, MARISA V | 1 | 41.2% | +36.5% |
| MENEFEE, JAMES A | 1 | 79.2% | +12.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036427 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LASER RANGE-FINDING | MENEFEE, JAMES A | 33d |
| 19111017 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL TACTICAL MISSILE SYSTEM | CONLON, MARISA V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3643 | 1 |
| 2828 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19111017 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL TACTICAL MISSILE SYSTEM | CONLON, MARISA V | 3643 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 18036427 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LASER RANGE-FINDING | MENEFEE, JAMES A | 2828 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialRafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Marisa V Conlon has the most, with 1 of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
