Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (80%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (40%)
§102 only2 (40%)
No statute on record1 (20%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
20% of docket
2
Semiconductors
40% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
40% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KIM, SEOKJIN 1 77.7% +13.8%
FRAZIER, BRADY W 1 77.9% +27.9%
RACHEDINE, MOHAMMED 1 87.0% +11.2%
SKROUPA, JOSHUA A 1 80.4% +15.0%
TANINGCO, ALEXANDER H 1 74.1% -1.4%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17983932 USER TERMINAL MOUNTING SYSTEM SKROUPA, JOSHUA A 121d overdue
18223941 SERIALLY FED SIGNAL DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS RACHEDINE, MOHAMMED 29d overdue

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17983932 USER TERMINAL MOUNTING SYSTEM SKROUPA, JOSHUA A 121d overdue
18415398 SPACECRAFT STACK ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR STACKING, SECURING, AND RELEASING SPACECRAFT FRAZIER, BRADY W 84d overdue
18223941 SERIALLY FED SIGNAL DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS RACHEDINE, MOHAMMED 29d overdue
18943760 ANTENNA APPARATUS HAVING HEAT DISSIPATION FEATURES KIM, SEOKJIN 15d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2844 2
3648 1
2646 1
3678 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18943760 ANTENNA APPARATUS HAVING HEAT DISSIPATION FEATURES KIM, SEOKJIN 2844 Other Non-Final OA 15d Pending Nov 11, 2024
18415398 SPACECRAFT STACK ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR STACKING, SECURING, AND RELEASING SPACECRAFT FRAZIER, BRADY W 3648 §102 Final Rejection 84d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2024
18223941 SERIALLY FED SIGNAL DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS RACHEDINE, MOHAMMED 2646 §103 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2023
17983932 USER TERMINAL MOUNTING SYSTEM SKROUPA, JOSHUA A 3678 §102 Final Rejection 121d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2022
16893317 ANTENNA APPARATUS HOUSING AND COMPONENTS FOR SAME TANINGCO, ALEXANDER H 2844 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Jun 04, 2020

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