Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Polsinelli Pc (Spacex)

11 pending office actions • 2 clients • 11 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=415 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

97.4%
Allowance Rate
n=415
+0.48σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=415
2.0
OAs to Allowance
n=264
-0.64σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=264
844 days
Time to Allowance
n=264
+0.1pp
Interview Lift
n=415
18.4%
RCE Rate
n=415
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=415

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=4 (min 20)
92.9%
§102 Overcome
n=28
85.7%
§103 Overcome
n=112
97.4%
§112 Overcome
n=38

Specialization & Scale

H03H, H04B, H01Q
Top CPC Subclasses
49%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=415
0
Practitioners
n=415
Apps / Practitioner
n=415 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
1
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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 (73%)
3
Easy (27%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (64%)
§102 only1 (9%)
Double-patenting only3 (27%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
9% of docket
2
Communications
18% of docket
3
Semiconductors
27% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
9% of docket
4
Business / Other
36% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LOTTER, DAVID E 1 84.8% +9.3%
YEAMAN, JAMES G 1 82.3% +7.4%
DUONG, DIEU HIEN 1 78.3% +16.9%
HAILEGIORGIS, FITWI Y 1 90.5% -16.0%
TRANDAI, CINDY HUYEN 1 77.8% +17.8%
XAVIER, VALENTINA 1 74.9% +8.7%
OUTTEN, SAMUEL S 1 79.0% +20.2%
MILORD, MARCEAU 1 89.1% +11.3%
NGUYEN, DONGHAI D 1 75.4% +29.1%
VU, VIET D 1 84.1% +14.4%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19205799 RADOME WITH MELT-PROCESSABLE FLUOROPOLYMER LOTTER, DAVID E
19073713 SYNCHRONIZATION OF FREQUENCY DIVIDED REFERENCE CLOCKS YEAMAN, JAMES G
18900240 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BEAMFORMING IN HYBRID BEAMFORMING ANTENNAS HAILEGIORGIS, FITWI Y
18227686 COMPACT RADIO FREQUENCY COMBINER MILORD, MARCEAU
17955401 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING ACCESS TO COMPUTE RESOURCES DISTRIBUTED ACROSS A GROUP OF SATELLITES VU, VIET D

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19039693 STACK PATCH ANTENNA ASSEMBLY DUONG, DIEU HIEN
18665028 SHARED LOCAL OSCILLATORS IN PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS TRANDAI, CINDY HUYEN
18455402 METHOD AND STRUCTURE FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE RESONANCE CIRCUIT WITH SINGLE CRYSTAL PIEZOELECTRIC CAPACITOR DIELECTRIC MATERIAL OUTTEN, SAMUEL S
18227686 COMPACT RADIO FREQUENCY COMBINER MILORD, MARCEAU
18160877 METHODS OF PACKAGING ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATOR DEVICES ON WAFERS AND RELATED WAFERS AND STRUCTURES NGUYEN, DONGHAI D
17955401 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING ACCESS TO COMPUTE RESOURCES DISTRIBUTED ACROSS A GROUP OF SATELLITES VU, VIET D

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28451
26481
36421
26411
28371
24551
28441

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19205799 RADOME WITH MELT-PROCESSABLE FLUOROPOLYMER Space Exploration Technologies Corp. LOTTER, DAVID E DP Non-Final OA Pending May 12, 2025
19073713 SYNCHRONIZATION OF FREQUENCY DIVIDED REFERENCE CLOCKS Space Exploration Technologies Corp. YEAMAN, JAMES G §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 07, 2025
19039693 STACK PATCH ANTENNA ASSEMBLY Space Exploration Technologies Corp. DUONG, DIEU HIEN 2845 DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 28, 2025
18900240 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BEAMFORMING IN HYBRID BEAMFORMING ANTENNAS Space Exploration Technologies Corp. HAILEGIORGIS, FITWI Y DP Non-Final OA Pending Sep 27, 2024
18665028 SHARED LOCAL OSCILLATORS IN PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS Space Exploration Technologies Corp. TRANDAI, CINDY HUYEN 2648 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 15, 2024
18375806 SPACECRAFT CHASSIS AND COMPONENT CONFIGURATION Space Exploration Technologies Corp. XAVIER, VALENTINA 3642 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 02, 2023
18455402 METHOD AND STRUCTURE FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE RESONANCE CIRCUIT WITH SINGLE CRYSTAL PIEZOELECTRIC CAPACITOR DIELECTRIC MATERIAL Akoustis Technologies Corp. OUTTEN, SAMUEL S §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 24, 2023
18227686 COMPACT RADIO FREQUENCY COMBINER Space Exploration Technologies Corp. MILORD, MARCEAU 2641 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 28, 2023
18160877 METHODS OF PACKAGING ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATOR DEVICES ON WAFERS AND RELATED WAFERS AND STRUCTURES Akoustis Technologies Corp. NGUYEN, DONGHAI D 2837 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 27, 2023
17955401 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING ACCESS TO COMPUTE RESOURCES DISTRIBUTED ACROSS A GROUP OF SATELLITES Space Exploration Technologies Corp. VU, VIET D 2455 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 28, 2022
16893317 ANTENNA APPARATUS HOUSING AND COMPONENTS FOR SAME Space Exploration Technologies Corp. TANINGCO, ALEXANDER H 2844 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Jun 04, 2020

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