Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 1 client • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dority & Manning, P.A. & Northrop Grumman focuses on Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The firm has 28235 career applications and an 88.31 percent resolved allowance rate. This profile has 4 pending office actions. The firm averages 3.39 office actions per allowance.
The 4 pending office actions for Northrop Grumman are managed within the firm's 28235 career applications. The 88.31 percent allowance rate and 3.39 average office actions per allowance provide the performance context for these Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics cases.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KARACSONY, ROBERT | 1 | 77.1% | +15.4% |
| OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | 1 | 62.0% | +9.4% |
| COOK, JONATHON | 1 | 81.6% | +17.1% |
| DASGUPTA, SHOURJO | 1 | 65.2% | +39.3% |
| TRINH, THANH TRUC | 1 | 22.2% | +11.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18339449 | SCANNER SYSTEM FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCANNING OF MOVING OBJECTS | COOK, JONATHON | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19050383 | OPTICALLY TRANSPARENT ANTENNA AND ASSOCIATED ANTENNA ARRAY | KARACSONY, ROBERT | — |
| 18660315 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF LIQUIDS | OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | — |
| 16943440 | FLEXIBLE SOLAR ARRAY FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL DEPLOYMENT | TRINH, THANH TRUC | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19050383 | OPTICALLY TRANSPARENT ANTENNA AND ASSOCIATED ANTENNA ARRAY | KARACSONY, ROBERT | — |
| 18339449 | SCANNER SYSTEM FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCANNING OF MOVING OBJECTS | COOK, JONATHON | — |
| 17404160 | MACHINE LEARNING CLASSIFICATION OF SIGNALS AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA | DASGUPTA, SHOURJO | — |
| 16943440 | FLEXIBLE SOLAR ARRAY FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL DEPLOYMENT | TRINH, THANH TRUC | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Northrop Grumman | 5 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2845 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 2144 | 1 |
| 1726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19050383 | OPTICALLY TRANSPARENT ANTENNA AND ASSOCIATED ANTENNA ARRAY | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | KARACSONY, ROBERT | 2845 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 18660315 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF LIQUIDS | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | 2853 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18339449 | SCANNER SYSTEM FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCANNING OF MOVING OBJECTS | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | COOK, JONATHON | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 17404160 | MACHINE LEARNING CLASSIFICATION OF SIGNALS AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | DASGUPTA, SHOURJO | 2144 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2021 |
| 16943440 | FLEXIBLE SOLAR ARRAY FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL DEPLOYMENT | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | TRINH, THANH TRUC | 1726 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2020 |
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Start Free Trial88.3% of resolved applications prosecuted by Dority & Manning, P.A. & Northrop Grumman were allowed, across 28,372 applications in USPTO records.
3.38 office actions per allowed application on average.
5 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 5 examiners in 5 art units.