Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Spirit Aerosystems Inc.

15 pending office actions • 14 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

15
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
4
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (4)Due later (2)

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%)
14
Medium (93%)
1
Easy (7%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only14 (93%)
§112 only1 (7%)

Industry Mix

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

8
Life Sciences
53% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
2
Communications
13% of docket
1
Semiconductors
7% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
27% 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.

150 h
Manual time on pending OAs
30 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
52 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH 1 84.3% +11.2%
TRAVERS, MATTHEW P 1 63.1% +44.1%
KRUPICKA, ADAM C 1 61.7% +27.9%
DANIELS, MATTHEW J 1 69.1% +25.4%
MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T 1 53.3% +30.8%
TAYLOR, MEREDITH IREENE DUPAI 1 67.9% +53.5%
BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD 1 67.4% +36.0%
PATTON, SPENCER D 1 73.6% +21.4%
SAETHER, FLEMMING 1 64.9% +28.4%
GROUX, JENNIFER LILA 1 35.6% +46.3%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18819459 TOPOGRAPHICAL INSPECTION BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH 35d overdue

Interview Candidates (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18736630 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING COMPOSITE PARTS DANIELS, MATTHEW J 59d overdue
18819459 TOPOGRAPHICAL INSPECTION BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH 35d overdue
18326710 MODULAR BUILD PLATE AND METHOD FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING GROUX, JENNIFER LILA 22d overdue
18783006 DRILL GUIDE FOR REMOVING A STANDOFF AND METHOD OF REMOVING STANDOFF TRAVERS, MATTHEW P 15d
18770928 A CHROMIUM COATED CONTINOUS FIBER REINFORCED TIANTINUM METAL MATRIX COMPOSITE AND THE METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF KRUPICKA, ADAM C 19d
18477132 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PART PROFILE IDENTIFICATION TAYLOR, MEREDITH IREENE DUPAI 33d
18453407 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING AND VISUALIZING CAMERA IMAGES IN RELATION TO A LARGE-SCALE MANUFACTURING PRODUCT BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD 40d
18451626 Systems and Methods for Robot Automation PATTON, SPENCER D 40d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1754 2
2877 1
3726 1
1784 1
1742 1
1789 1
2671 1
2611 1
3656 1
3675 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18819459 TOPOGRAPHICAL INSPECTION BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH 2877 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Aug 29, 2024
18783006 DRILL GUIDE FOR REMOVING A STANDOFF AND METHOD OF REMOVING STANDOFF TRAVERS, MATTHEW P 3726 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jul 24, 2024
18770928 A CHROMIUM COATED CONTINOUS FIBER REINFORCED TIANTINUM METAL MATRIX COMPOSITE AND THE METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF KRUPICKA, ADAM C 1784 §112 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Jul 12, 2024
18736630 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING COMPOSITE PARTS DANIELS, MATTHEW J 1742 §103 Non-Final OA 59d overdue Pending Jun 07, 2024
18419275 CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE SANDWICH STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T 1789 §103 Final Rejection 46d Pending Jan 22, 2024
18477132 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PART PROFILE IDENTIFICATION TAYLOR, MEREDITH IREENE DUPAI 2671 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Sep 28, 2023
18453407 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING AND VISUALIZING CAMERA IMAGES IN RELATION TO A LARGE-SCALE MANUFACTURING PRODUCT BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Aug 22, 2023
18451626 Systems and Methods for Robot Automation PATTON, SPENCER D 3656 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Aug 17, 2023
18356719 INDEXING BOLT FOR JOINING COMPOSITE FORM PIECES TOGETHER SAETHER, FLEMMING 3675 §103 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Jul 21, 2023
18326710 MODULAR BUILD PLATE AND METHOD FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING GROUX, JENNIFER LILA 1754 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending May 31, 2023
18325826 METHOD FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTED POWDER CONTAINMENT PATEL, DEVANG R 1735 §103 Non-Final OA 76d Pending May 30, 2023
18133367 FIREPROOF SIGHT GLASS WINDOW FOR ENGINE NACELLE ALLEN, JEFFREY R 3733 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Apr 11, 2023
18111828 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUPERALLOYS UTILIZING ELECTRO-METALLURGY RUFO, LOUIS J 1795 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Feb 20, 2023
17982653 METHOD FOR CONTROL OF SEMI-CRYSTALLINE THERMOPLASTIC MELT FRONT IN OUT OF AUTOCLAVE PROCESSING BARTLETT, VICTORIA 1744 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Nov 08, 2022
17961395 METHOD FOR SECURING CORE TO TOOL DURING MACHINING MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD 1754 §103 Non-Final OA 149d overdue Pending Oct 06, 2022

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