Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Relativity Space Inc. currently has 10 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 10 actions are distributed among 10 distinct examiners, meaning that every pending case is being reviewed by a different individual. The portfolio spans 6 distinct art units, reflecting a variety of mechanical and technical classifications.
The busiest examiner, HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE, is responsible for 1 pending case. This matches the overall distribution where 10 distinct examiners are assigned to 10 pending office actions. For a practitioner, this indicates a highly decentralized prosecution environment. There is no single examiner handling multiple cases, so each of the 10 actions must be approached with a unique strategy tailored to the specific examiner involved.
The presence of 6 distinct art units suggests that the company's technology is broad enough to be categorized into several different technical groups at the USPTO. Managing 10 pending office actions across 6 art units requires the practitioner to be familiar with multiple sets of examination guidelines within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area. Because each of the 10 distinct examiners only has 1 pending case, the practitioner cannot leverage a single relationship to influence more than a small portion of the currently pending portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 (11%) |
| §102 only | 2 (22%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (56%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 1 | 69.5% | +49.6% |
| SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 1 | 78.5% | +21.0% |
| TSUI, YUNG-SHENG M | 1 | 66.4% | +6.6% |
| DUNN, DARRIN D | 1 | 75.3% | +24.2% |
| WANG, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 53.6% | +22.5% |
| KHLOK, BONITA | 1 | 49.1% | +48.3% |
| MEADE, LORNE EDWARD | 1 | 51.4% | +38.7% |
| NGUYEN, PHUONG T | 1 | 73.8% | +37.0% |
| JANSSEN, REBECCA | 1 | 60.4% | +28.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18146292 | Methods and Apparatuses Related to Payload Launch Vehicles | JANSSEN, REBECCA | 80d overdue |
| 19195615 | Additively Manufactured Combustion Chambers, Manifold Structures and Hybrid Additive Processes Related Thereto | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 24d overdue |
| 19000452 | Manifolds for Use with Insertable or Installable Valves | SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 8d overdue |
| 18451688 | Multiple Wire Additive Manufacturing | MEADE, LORNE EDWARD | 5d |
| 18664074 | Systems and Methods for Three-Dimensional Printing | DUNN, DARRIN D | — |
| 18486101 | Systems for Localized Work Return Path and Methods Thereof | KHLOK, BONITA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18146292 | Methods and Apparatuses Related to Payload Launch Vehicles | JANSSEN, REBECCA | 80d overdue |
| 19195615 | Additively Manufactured Combustion Chambers, Manifold Structures and Hybrid Additive Processes Related Thereto | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 24d overdue |
| 19000452 | Manifolds for Use with Insertable or Installable Valves | SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 8d overdue |
| 18451688 | Multiple Wire Additive Manufacturing | MEADE, LORNE EDWARD | 5d |
| 18664074 | Systems and Methods for Three-Dimensional Printing | DUNN, DARRIN D | — |
| 18607251 | Additive Manufacturing Using Multiple Metallic Materials | WANG, NICHOLAS A | — |
| 18486101 | Systems for Localized Work Return Path and Methods Thereof | KHLOK, BONITA | — |
| 18352992 | Systems for Horizontal Additive Manufacturing and Methods Thereof | NGUYEN, PHUONG T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 1743 | 1 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19195615 | Additively Manufactured Combustion Chambers, Manifold Structures and Hybrid Additive Processes Related Thereto | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 3726 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 24d overdue | Pending | Apr 30, 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 | 1743 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18664074 | Systems and Methods for Three-Dimensional Printing | DUNN, DARRIN D | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 18607251 | Additive Manufacturing Using Multiple Metallic Materials | WANG, NICHOLAS A | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18486101 | Systems for Localized Work Return Path and Methods Thereof | KHLOK, BONITA | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 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 |
| 18146292 | Methods and Apparatuses Related to Payload Launch Vehicles | JANSSEN, REBECCA | 1733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 80d overdue | Pending | Dec 23, 2022 |
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