Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
14 pending office actions • 9 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. has 13 pending office actions in Communications. Those matters are distributed across 13 distinct examiners and 9 distinct art units, indicating that the prosecution workload spans multiple examination assignments rather than a single art-unit channel.
PHAN, THO GIA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The available examiner data therefore identifies a lead contact, but does not indicate a concentrated examiner docket. Counsel reviewing this portfolio should account for variation across art units and examiner practices when planning amendments, interviews, and response timing.
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 (7%) |
| §103 only | 6 (43%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (7%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (7%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAN, THO GIA | 1 | 91.4% | +4.0% |
| LOTTER, DAVID E | 1 | 85.0% | +9.4% |
| REGO, DOMINIC E | 1 | 86.9% | +7.4% |
| YEAMAN, JAMES G | 1 | 82.6% | +6.9% |
| VUONG, QUOCHIEN B | 1 | 89.7% | -1.2% |
| DUONG, DIEU HIEN | 1 | 78.3% | +16.5% |
| VO, DON NGUYEN | 1 | 90.5% | +0.6% |
| GREGORY, BERNARR E | 1 | 90.5% | +6.7% |
| DEAN, RAYMOND S | 1 | 70.4% | +15.8% |
| TRANDAI, CINDY HUYEN | 1 | 78.0% | +17.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19234035 | RADOME ASSEMBLY HAVING NODELESS CELLS | PHAN, THO GIA | — |
| 19205799 | RADOME WITH MELT-PROCESSABLE FLUOROPOLYMER | LOTTER, DAVID E | — |
| 19073713 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF FREQUENCY DIVIDED REFERENCE CLOCKS | YEAMAN, JAMES G | — |
| 19055388 | OVER-THE-AIR CALIBRATION OF ANTENNA SYSTEM | VUONG, QUOCHIEN B | — |
| 19005758 | CHIP TO CHIP TIME SYNCHRONIZATION | VO, DON NGUYEN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18943874 | FEEDBACK AND FEEDFORWARD COUPLING CANCELLATION | GREGORY, BERNARR E | — |
| 18812840 | LOW VOLTAGE VARIABLE GAIN AMPLIFIER WITH LOW PHASE SENSITIVITY | DEAN, RAYMOND S | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19039693 | STACK PATCH ANTENNA ASSEMBLY | DUONG, DIEU HIEN | — |
| 18812840 | LOW VOLTAGE VARIABLE GAIN AMPLIFIER WITH LOW PHASE SENSITIVITY | DEAN, RAYMOND S | — |
| 18665028 | SHARED LOCAL OSCILLATORS IN PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS | TRANDAI, CINDY HUYEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2845 | 3 |
| 2648 | 3 |
| 2645 | 2 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| 2634 | 1 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| 2641 | 1 |
| 2455 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19234035 | RADOME ASSEMBLY HAVING NODELESS CELLS | PHAN, THO GIA | 2845 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2025 |
| 19205799 | RADOME WITH MELT-PROCESSABLE FLUOROPOLYMER | LOTTER, DAVID E | 2845 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19082011 | OVER-THE-AIR SELF CALIBRATION FOR PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS | REGO, DOMINIC E | 2648 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19073713 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF FREQUENCY DIVIDED REFERENCE CLOCKS | YEAMAN, JAMES G | 2836 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19055388 | OVER-THE-AIR CALIBRATION OF ANTENNA SYSTEM | VUONG, QUOCHIEN B | 2645 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2025 |
| 19039693 | STACK PATCH ANTENNA ASSEMBLY | DUONG, DIEU HIEN | 2845 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19005758 | CHIP TO CHIP TIME SYNCHRONIZATION | VO, DON NGUYEN | 2634 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18943874 | FEEDBACK AND FEEDFORWARD COUPLING CANCELLATION | GREGORY, BERNARR E | 3648 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18812840 | LOW VOLTAGE VARIABLE GAIN AMPLIFIER WITH LOW PHASE SENSITIVITY | DEAN, RAYMOND S | 2645 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18665028 | SHARED LOCAL OSCILLATORS IN PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS | TRANDAI, CINDY HUYEN | 2648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18599760 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING SATELLITE VISIBILITY FOR EARTH-BASED ANTENNA SYSTEMS | FERGUSON, KEITH | 2648 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18375806 | SPACECRAFT CHASSIS AND COMPONENT CONFIGURATION | XAVIER, VALENTINA | 3642 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18227686 | COMPACT RADIO FREQUENCY COMBINER | MILORD, MARCEAU | 2641 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 17955401 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING ACCESS TO COMPUTE RESOURCES DISTRIBUTED ACROSS A GROUP OF SATELLITES | VU, VIET D | 2455 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSpace Exploration Technologies Corp. has 14 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 14 examiners.
Tho Gia Phan has the most, with 1 of Space Exploration Technologies Corp.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
