Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Vulcanforms Inc.

7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 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%)
6
Medium (86%)
1
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (71%)
§102 only1 (14%)
§112 only1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
43% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
14% of docket
1
Semiconductors
14% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
29% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SONG, INJA 1 65.5% +48.1%
ROBINSON, MICHAEL 1 61.6% +21.3%
PYO, KEVIN K 1 87.1% +10.8%
MAWARI, REDHWAN K 1 72.3% +26.6%
ROBERTS, RACHEL L 1 84.0% +21.3%
ISKRA, JOSEPH W 1 71.4% +27.0%
KHARE, ATUL P 1 54.5% +72.7%

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
18524219 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING PART DEFECTS DURING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING ROBERTS, RACHEL L 5d
18676128 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF OPTICAL BEAMS PYO, KEVIN K 40d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18524444 CONTROL OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS INCLUDING MULTIPLE LASER ENERGY SOURCES MAWARI, REDHWAN K 32d overdue
18750585 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HEATING AND MOUNTING A BUILD PLATE FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SONG, INJA 5d overdue
18524219 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING PART DEFECTS DURING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING ROBERTS, RACHEL L 5d
18746535 CABLE CARRIER FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM ROBINSON, MICHAEL 12d
18204051 CONTINUOUS AND SEMI-CONTINUOUS ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS AND METHODS KHARE, ATUL P 13d
18524485 OPTICS SHIELD ISKRA, JOSEPH W 22d
18676128 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF OPTICAL BEAMS PYO, KEVIN K 40d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1744 2
2878 1
3664 1
2674 1
3761 1
1742 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18750585 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HEATING AND MOUNTING A BUILD PLATE FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SONG, INJA 1744 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jun 21, 2024
18746535 CABLE CARRIER FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM ROBINSON, MICHAEL 1744 §102 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jun 18, 2024
18676128 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF OPTICAL BEAMS PYO, KEVIN K 2878 §112 Non-Final OA 40d Pending May 28, 2024
18524444 CONTROL OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS INCLUDING MULTIPLE LASER ENERGY SOURCES MAWARI, REDHWAN K 3664 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2023
18524219 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING PART DEFECTS DURING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING ROBERTS, RACHEL L 2674 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Nov 30, 2023
18524485 OPTICS SHIELD ISKRA, JOSEPH W 3761 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Nov 30, 2023
18204051 CONTINUOUS AND SEMI-CONTINUOUS ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS AND METHODS KHARE, ATUL P 1742 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending May 31, 2023

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