Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
11 pending office actions • 10 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Spirit AeroSystems Inc. has 11 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. Those matters are distributed among 11 examiners and 9 art units, showing a broad prosecution footprint with little examiner concentration. The docket calls for coordination across multiple examination practices, while preserving application-specific analysis of claim scope, written description, and prior-art issues.
CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON is the busiest examiner, but has only 1 pending matter. The distribution means that no single examiner accounts for a dominant share of the reported activity. Counsel may benefit from a centralized issue chart that identifies common technology or claim themes while allowing responses to reflect the different art-unit contexts.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 6 (55%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (45%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON | 1 | 59.4% | +21.8% |
| MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 1 | 54.0% | +30.2% |
| KARIM, ZIAUL | 1 | 81.9% | +21.9% |
| KOCH, GEORGE R | 1 | 72.8% | +17.0% |
| BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD | 1 | 67.9% | +34.8% |
| SAETHER, FLEMMING | 1 | 65.2% | +27.8% |
| GROUX, JENNIFER LILA | 1 | 34.6% | +39.6% |
| LEYSON, JOSEPH S | 1 | 66.2% | +35.9% |
| RUFO, LOUIS J | 1 | 54.6% | +22.8% |
| BARTLETT, VICTORIA | 1 | 51.0% | +29.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18541308 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC CURING OF COMPOSITE PARTS | KARIM, ZIAUL | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17982653 | METHOD FOR CONTROL OF SEMI-CRYSTALLINE THERMOPLASTIC MELT FRONT IN OUT OF AUTOCLAVE PROCESSING | BARTLETT, VICTORIA | 27d |
| 18356719 | INDEXING BOLT FOR JOINING COMPOSITE FORM PIECES TOGETHER | SAETHER, FLEMMING | 61d |
| 18630511 | DEBURR TOOL | CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON | — |
| 18325835 | METHOD FOR FABRICATION OF A CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE PART | LEYSON, JOSEPH S | — |
| 17982129 | METHOD OF BONDING METALLIC COMPONENTS TO FORM MACHINING PREFORM | FERDOUSI, FAHMIDA NMN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18326710 | MODULAR BUILD PLATE AND METHOD FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | GROUX, JENNIFER LILA | 22d overdue |
| 18111828 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUPERALLOYS UTILIZING ELECTRO-METALLURGY | RUFO, LOUIS J | 4d overdue |
| 17982653 | METHOD FOR CONTROL OF SEMI-CRYSTALLINE THERMOPLASTIC MELT FRONT IN OUT OF AUTOCLAVE PROCESSING | BARTLETT, VICTORIA | 27d |
| 18453407 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING AND VISUALIZING CAMERA IMAGES IN RELATION TO A LARGE-SCALE MANUFACTURING PRODUCT | BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD | 40d |
| 18419275 | CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE SANDWICH STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 46d |
| 18356719 | INDEXING BOLT FOR JOINING COMPOSITE FORM PIECES TOGETHER | SAETHER, FLEMMING | 61d |
| 18630511 | DEBURR TOOL | CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON | — |
| 18541308 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC CURING OF COMPOSITE PARTS | KARIM, ZIAUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1744 | 2 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 2117 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| 2611 | 1 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18630511 | DEBURR TOOL | CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18419275 | CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE SANDWICH STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 1789 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18541308 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC CURING OF COMPOSITE PARTS | KARIM, ZIAUL | 2117 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18460468 | MAXIMIZING THE LAMINATE QUALITY AND STRENGTH OF CURVED COMPOSITE STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS MANUFACTURED WITH AUTOMATED FIBER PLACEMENT (AFP) TECHNOLOGIES | KOCH, GEORGE R | 1745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 18453407 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING AND VISUALIZING CAMERA IMAGES IN RELATION TO A LARGE-SCALE MANUFACTURING PRODUCT | BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD | 2611 | §103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
| 18356719 | INDEXING BOLT FOR JOINING COMPOSITE FORM PIECES TOGETHER | SAETHER, FLEMMING | 3675 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Jul 21, 2023 |
| 18326710 | MODULAR BUILD PLATE AND METHOD FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | GROUX, JENNIFER LILA | 1754 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
| 18325835 | METHOD FOR FABRICATION OF A CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE PART | LEYSON, JOSEPH S | 1744 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18111828 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUPERALLOYS UTILIZING ELECTRO-METALLURGY | RUFO, LOUIS J | 1795 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Feb 20, 2023 |
| 17982653 | METHOD FOR CONTROL OF SEMI-CRYSTALLINE THERMOPLASTIC MELT FRONT IN OUT OF AUTOCLAVE PROCESSING | BARTLETT, VICTORIA | 1744 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Nov 08, 2022 |
| 17982129 | METHOD OF BONDING METALLIC COMPONENTS TO FORM MACHINING PREFORM | FERDOUSI, FAHMIDA NMN | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSpirit AeroSystems Inc. has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 10 art units and 11 examiners.
Joel Dillon Crandall has the most, with 1 of Spirit AeroSystems Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
