Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Relativity Space Inc. has 8 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 8 examiners across 7 art units, showing complete examiner dispersion and one repeated art-unit assignment.
HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner concentration is shown. Matter-specific prosecution remains necessary, while the repeated art-unit assignment provides a limited basis for comparing claim interpretation and response practice.
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 | 1 (14%) |
| §102 only | 2 (29%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | 1 | 72.2% | +30.0% |
| SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 1 | 78.5% | +21.0% |
| TSUI, YUNG-SHENG M | 1 | 66.5% | +6.3% |
| DUNN, DARRIN D | 1 | 75.3% | +24.4% |
| WANG, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 53.5% | +22.1% |
| MEADE, LORNE EDWARD | 1 | 51.7% | +38.7% |
| NGUYEN, PHUONG T | 1 | 74.0% | +36.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19000452 | Manifolds for Use with Insertable or Installable Valves | SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 8d overdue |
| 18451688 | Multiple Wire Additive Manufacturing | MEADE, LORNE EDWARD | 5d |
| 19190455 | Multi-Diameter Wire Feeder | ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | 84d |
| 18664074 | Systems and Methods for Three-Dimensional Printing | DUNN, DARRIN D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19000452 | Manifolds for Use with Insertable or Installable Valves | SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 8d overdue |
| 18451688 | Multiple Wire Additive Manufacturing | MEADE, LORNE EDWARD | 5d |
| 19190455 | Multi-Diameter Wire Feeder | ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | 84d |
| 18664074 | Systems and Methods for Three-Dimensional Printing | DUNN, DARRIN D | — |
| 18607251 | Additive Manufacturing Using Multiple Metallic Materials | WANG, NICHOLAS A | — |
| 18352992 | Systems for Horizontal Additive Manufacturing and Methods Thereof | NGUYEN, PHUONG T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 2 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 1684 | 1 |
| 2117 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19190455 | Multi-Diameter Wire Feeder | ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | 3761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 84d | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
| 19000452 | Manifolds for Use with Insertable or Installable Valves | SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 3753 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18757330 | Systems for Printing Three-Dimensional Objects | TSUI, YUNG-SHENG M | 1684 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18664074 | Systems and Methods for Three-Dimensional Printing | DUNN, DARRIN D | 2117 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 18607251 | Additive Manufacturing Using Multiple Metallic Materials | WANG, NICHOLAS A | 1734 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18451688 | Multiple Wire Additive Manufacturing | MEADE, LORNE EDWARD | 3741 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 18352992 | Systems for Horizontal Additive Manufacturing and Methods Thereof | NGUYEN, PHUONG T | 3761 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialRelativity Space Inc. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 7 examiners.
Keith Brian Assante has the most, with 1 of Relativity Space Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
