Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The Aerospace Corporation

8 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (3)

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%)
8
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (75%)
§102 only2 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
50% of docket
1
Information Tech
12% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
12% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
25% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, HOANG V 1 90.9% +6.2%
HODAC, ERIC KHOI 1 83.8% +21.4%
LEE, STEVEN SHIH-CHING 1 66.5% +21.2%
WHITELEY, JESSICA 1 88.5% +7.1%
MCCLENDON, SANZA L 1 80.6% +10.5%
GRUSZKA, DANIEL PATRICK 1
DIZON, EDWARD ANDREW IZON 1 0.0% +0.0%
KYLE, MADISON LEIGH 1 53.8% -5.6%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18482272 THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) NONUNIFORM FREEHAND SCANNING HODAC, ERIC KHOI 30d overdue
18752223 MULTI-OCTAVE ANTENNA ELEMENT NGUYEN, HOANG V 5d
18319878 SELF STIFFENING SPACE MATERIALS WHITELEY, JESSICA 42d
18310840 LOW STRESS AND TAILORABLE STRESS ADHESIVES FOR BONDING OF SENSITIVE COMPONENTS AND PROCESS FOR CREATING THE SAME MCCLENDON, SANZA L 75d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17936342 ANALYZING ELECTRO-OPTICAL IMAGE DIZON, EDWARD ANDREW IZON 83d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18482272 THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) NONUNIFORM FREEHAND SCANNING HODAC, ERIC KHOI 30d overdue
18447867 SELF-HEALING OXIDES FOR IONIZING RADIATION DAMAGE LEE, STEVEN SHIH-CHING 9d
18310840 LOW STRESS AND TAILORABLE STRESS ADHESIVES FOR BONDING OF SENSITIVE COMPONENTS AND PROCESS FOR CREATING THE SAME MCCLENDON, SANZA L 75d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2845 1
3648 1
1741 1
1763 1
1765 1
2121 1
3663 1
1722 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18752223 MULTI-OCTAVE ANTENNA ELEMENT NGUYEN, HOANG V 2845 §102 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Jun 24, 2024
18482272 THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) NONUNIFORM FREEHAND SCANNING HODAC, ERIC KHOI 3648 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Oct 06, 2023
18447867 SELF-HEALING OXIDES FOR IONIZING RADIATION DAMAGE LEE, STEVEN SHIH-CHING 1741 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Aug 10, 2023
18319878 SELF STIFFENING SPACE MATERIALS WHITELEY, JESSICA 1763 §102 Non-Final OA 42d Pending May 18, 2023
18310840 LOW STRESS AND TAILORABLE STRESS ADHESIVES FOR BONDING OF SENSITIVE COMPONENTS AND PROCESS FOR CREATING THE SAME MCCLENDON, SANZA L 1765 §103 Non-Final OA 75d Pending May 02, 2023
18184428 MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TRAINING USING FEATURE SPACE ANALYSIS GRUSZKA, DANIEL PATRICK 2121 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Mar 15, 2023
17936342 ANALYZING ELECTRO-OPTICAL IMAGE DIZON, EDWARD ANDREW IZON 3663 §103 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Sep 28, 2022
17832007 EXPANDING BATTERY MANDREL KYLE, MADISON LEIGH 1722 §103 Non-Final OA 86d Pending Jun 03, 2022

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