Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Flint Hills Scientific L L C

8 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
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.

3
Hard (38%)
3
Medium (38%)
2
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (25%)
Double-patenting only2 (25%)
Double-patenting + other3 (38%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
62% of docket
3
Business / Other
38% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HULBERT, AMANDA K 3 84.5% +4.0%
MOSS, JAMES R 1 51.1% +40.7%
GEDEON, BRIAN T 1 87.1% +6.9%
BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN 1 50.0% +54.5%
DINH, ANH-KHOA N 1 87.0% +15.3%
WU, TONG E 1 70.8% +15.7%

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
19025168 CONTINGENT CARDIO-PROTECTION FOR EPILEPSY PATIENTS HULBERT, AMANDA K
18827249 Contingent Cardio-Protection for Epilepsy Patients HULBERT, AMANDA K
18819537 Detecting, Assessing and Managing a Risk of Death in Epilepsy GEDEON, BRIAN T

Hard Cases (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18740099 Contingent Cardio-Protection For Epilepsy Patients DINH, ANH-KHOA N 6d
18894590 Contingent Cardio-Protection for Epilepsy Patients HULBERT, AMANDA K
18752120 Contingent Acquisition and Analysis of Biological Signal or Feature Thereof for Epileptic Event Detection BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN

Interview Candidates (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17034122 PROGRAMMABLE AUTOTITRATING OF ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS OF IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE WU, TONG E 118d overdue
18740099 Contingent Cardio-Protection For Epilepsy Patients DINH, ANH-KHOA N 6d
19027285 SEIZURE DETECTION METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS USING AN AUTOREGRESSION ALGORITHM MOSS, JAMES R
18752120 Contingent Acquisition and Analysis of Biological Signal or Feature Thereof for Epileptic Event Detection BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3792 2
3796 2
3791 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19027285 SEIZURE DETECTION METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS USING AN AUTOREGRESSION ALGORITHM MOSS, JAMES R §102§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 17, 2025
19025168 CONTINGENT CARDIO-PROTECTION FOR EPILEPSY PATIENTS HULBERT, AMANDA K DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 16, 2025
18894590 Contingent Cardio-Protection for Epilepsy Patients HULBERT, AMANDA K 3792 §101DP Final Rejection Pending Sep 24, 2024
18827249 Contingent Cardio-Protection for Epilepsy Patients HULBERT, AMANDA K 3792 §112DP Non-Final OA Pending Sep 06, 2024
18819537 Detecting, Assessing and Managing a Risk of Death in Epilepsy GEDEON, BRIAN T §102DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 29, 2024
18752120 Contingent Acquisition and Analysis of Biological Signal or Feature Thereof for Epileptic Event Detection BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN 3791 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 24, 2024
18740099 Contingent Cardio-Protection For Epilepsy Patients DINH, ANH-KHOA N 3796 §102§103Other Non-Final OA 6d Pending Jun 11, 2024
17034122 PROGRAMMABLE AUTOTITRATING OF ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS OF IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE WU, TONG E 3796 DP Non-Final OA 118d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2020

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