Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Cantor Colburn LLP - Raytheon

10 pending office actions • 3 clients • 10 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 47 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 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
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)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%)
8
Medium (80%)
2
Easy (20%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (80%)
§112 only2 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
60% of docket
1
Information Tech
10% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
3
Semiconductors
30% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LOTTER, DAVID E 1 84.7% +9.3%
LEE, BENNY T 1 87.3% +25.6%
NGUYEN, TRI V 1 67.6% +57.8%
LI, MEIYA 1 68.7% +25.4%
WIESE, NOAH S 1 83.2% -2.6%
HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE 1 53.8% +23.1%
DASGUPTA, SHOURJO 1 65.4% +38.6%
WANG, RUIXUE 1 57.6% +23.2%
DACE DENITO, ALEXANDRA GERALDINE 1 56.5% +36.3%
FELTON, AILEEN BAKER 1 51.3% +17.2%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18678817 DUAL-POLARIZED, HARDNESS-REINFORCED ANTENNA ARRAY FOR HARSH ENVIRONMENTS LOTTER, DAVID E 16d overdue
18408159 DIAMOND WHISPERING-GALLERY MODE RESONATOR LEE, BENNY T 9d overdue
18455568 Refractory Material with Supercritical Fluid-Deposited Interface Coatings WIESE, NOAH S 2d overdue

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18315778 VISIBLE QUALITY ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED ALUMINUM MIRROR FINISHING HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE 87d overdue
17670091 PRIMER DESIGN AND USE FOR LOOP-MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION (LAMP) PATHOGEN DETECTION WANG, RUIXUE 49d overdue
18408159 DIAMOND WHISPERING-GALLERY MODE RESONATOR LEE, BENNY T 9d overdue
17576971 LOOP-MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION (LAMP) ANALYSIS FOR PATHOGENIC TARGETS DACE DENITO, ALEXANDRA GERALDINE 8d overdue
17985020 Photonic Ising Compute Engine with An Optical Phased Array DASGUPTA, SHOURJO 13d
18458723 ELIMINATING INTERCONNECT STRAINS IN MICROCIRCUITS LI, MEIYA 21d
16986596 WATERLESS ELECTRICALLY OPERATED PROPELLANT FELTON, AILEEN BAKER 22d
18504518 AEROSOL-JETTABLE SILVER NANOPARTICLE-BASED CONVERTIBLE INK NGUYEN, TRI V 40d

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28451
28431
17641
28111
17311
17171
21441
16721
16361
17341

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18678817 DUAL-POLARIZED, HARDNESS-REINFORCED ANTENNA ARRAY FOR HARSH ENVIRONMENTS Blue Canyon Technologies LLC LOTTER, DAVID E 2845 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending May 30, 2024
18408159 DIAMOND WHISPERING-GALLERY MODE RESONATOR Raytheon Bbn Technologies Corp. LEE, BENNY T 2843 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jan 09, 2024
18504518 AEROSOL-JETTABLE SILVER NANOPARTICLE-BASED CONVERTIBLE INK The University of Massachusetts NGUYEN, TRI V 1764 §112 Final Rejection 40d Pending Nov 08, 2023
18458723 ELIMINATING INTERCONNECT STRAINS IN MICROCIRCUITS Raytheon Company LI, MEIYA 2811 §112 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Aug 30, 2023
18455568 Refractory Material with Supercritical Fluid-Deposited Interface Coatings Raytheon Company WIESE, NOAH S 1731 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Aug 24, 2023
18315778 VISIBLE QUALITY ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED ALUMINUM MIRROR FINISHING Raytheon Company HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE 1717 §103 Final Rejection 87d overdue Pending May 11, 2023
17985020 Photonic Ising Compute Engine with An Optical Phased Array Raytheon Bbn Technologies, Corp. DASGUPTA, SHOURJO 2144 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Nov 10, 2022
17670091 PRIMER DESIGN AND USE FOR LOOP-MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION (LAMP) PATHOGEN DETECTION Purdue Research Foundation WANG, RUIXUE 1672 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Feb 11, 2022
17576971 LOOP-MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION (LAMP) ANALYSIS FOR PATHOGENIC TARGETS Raytheon Bbn Technologies, Corp. DACE DENITO, ALEXANDRA GERALDINE 1636 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2022
16986596 WATERLESS ELECTRICALLY OPERATED PROPELLANT Raytheon Company FELTON, AILEEN BAKER 1734 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Aug 06, 2020

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