Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Arkray Inc.

13 pending office actions • 11 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (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%)
10
Medium (77%)
2
Easy (15%)
1
Unknown (8%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (62%)
§102 only2 (15%)
§112 only2 (15%)
No statute on record1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
54% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
8% of docket
3
Semiconductors
23% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
15% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, HIEP VAN 1 55.1% +29.3%
HENN, TIMOTHY J 1 85.8% +11.5%
ALLEN, ANDRE J 1 91.4% +6.3%
SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN 1 64.1% +11.9%
QIAN, SHIZHI 1 61.7% +48.4%
COLE, HOUSTON DAVID 1
BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE 1 64.2% +32.4%
MUTREJA, JYOTI NAGPAUL 1 81.0% +3.8%
CHOI, SEUNG HO 1 100.0% +0.0%
PEO, KARA M 1 42.2% +41.8%

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
18137114 BIOSENSOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING BIOSENSOR MUTREJA, JYOTI NAGPAUL 70d overdue
18425580 FLOW PATH MEMBER JOINING STRUCTURE AND COLUMN ATTACHING/DETACHING UNIT ALLEN, ANDRE J 42d overdue
18193511 POWER SOURCE DEVICE, ELECTROPHORESIS DEVICE, POWER SOURCE DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, AND ELECTROPHORESIS DEVICE CONTROL METHOD CHOI, SEUNG HO 19d overdue
18923109 CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HENN, TIMOTHY J 39d

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
18924490 INFORMATION INPUT SUPPORT MECHANISM AND INFORMATION INPUT SUPPORT PROGRAM NGUYEN, HIEP VAN 36d overdue
18348016 MEASURING DEVICE, AND SAMPLE LIQUID FEEDING METHOD BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE 32d overdue
18383357 SAMPLE ANALYSIS METHOD, CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS SOLUTION, AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS KIT SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN 24d overdue
18123480 METHOD OF MEASURING HEMOGLOBIN F PEO, KARA M 5d overdue
18383317 SAMPLE ANALYSIS METHOD, SAMPLE PRODUCTION METHOD, DILUENT FOR DILUTING ALBUMIN- AND y-GLOBULIN-CONTAINING SAMPLE, AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS KIT QIAN, SHIZHI 14d
18923109 CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HENN, TIMOTHY J 39d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1795 2
1653 2
3686 1
2639 1
2855 1
1758 1
2877 1
1798 1
2838 1
1777 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18924490 INFORMATION INPUT SUPPORT MECHANISM AND INFORMATION INPUT SUPPORT PROGRAM NGUYEN, HIEP VAN 3686 §102 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Oct 23, 2024
18923109 CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HENN, TIMOTHY J 2639 §112 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Oct 22, 2024
18425580 FLOW PATH MEMBER JOINING STRUCTURE AND COLUMN ATTACHING/DETACHING UNIT ALLEN, ANDRE J 2855 §102 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Jan 29, 2024
18383357 SAMPLE ANALYSIS METHOD, CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS SOLUTION, AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS KIT SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN 1795 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2023
18383317 SAMPLE ANALYSIS METHOD, SAMPLE PRODUCTION METHOD, DILUENT FOR DILUTING ALBUMIN- AND y-GLOBULIN-CONTAINING SAMPLE, AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS KIT QIAN, SHIZHI 1795 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Oct 24, 2023
18468585 QUALITY CONTROL SUBSTANCE FOR USE IN THE ANALYSIS OF LEUKOCYTES COLE, HOUSTON DAVID 1758 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Sep 15, 2023
18348016 MEASURING DEVICE, AND SAMPLE LIQUID FEEDING METHOD BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE 2877 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Jul 06, 2023
18137114 BIOSENSOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING BIOSENSOR MUTREJA, JYOTI NAGPAUL 1798 §103 Non-Final OA 70d overdue Pending Apr 20, 2023
18193511 POWER SOURCE DEVICE, ELECTROPHORESIS DEVICE, POWER SOURCE DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, AND ELECTROPHORESIS DEVICE CONTROL METHOD CHOI, SEUNG HO 2838 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Mar 30, 2023
18123480 METHOD OF MEASURING HEMOGLOBIN F PEO, KARA M 1777 Other Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Mar 20, 2023
18108819 ELECTRODE FOR MEASURING GLUCOSE AND ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSOR INCLUDING THE SAME JANG, CHRISTIAN Y 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Feb 13, 2023
17507800 Mutant Glucose Dehydrogenase Having Improved Thermal Stability, and Use Thereof KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G 1653 §112 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Oct 21, 2021
16091641 Method for Determining Stage of Periodontal Disease MARTIN, PAUL C 1653 §103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Oct 05, 2018

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