Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

K&N Engineering Inc.

6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (3)

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%)
3
Medium (50%)
1
Easy (17%)
2
Unknown (33%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (50%)
§112 only1 (17%)
No statute on record2 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
67% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
17% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
17% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CLEMENTE, ROBERT ARTHUR 2 80.8% +7.2%
STAUBACH, CARL C 1 73.1% +21.1%
NGUYEN, HAI L 1 87.1% +9.5%
LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M 1 83.9% +19.8%
BUI, DUNG H 1 78.5% +24.7%

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
17831820 HVAC Home Air Filter CLEMENTE, ROBERT ARTHUR 42d overdue
18424611 FILTER OIL FORMULATION LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M 13d
18217306 MAGNETIC COVER FOR AIR FILTER BOX CLEMENTE, ROBERT ARTHUR 27d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18514315 CONE AIR FILTER BUI, DUNG H 36d overdue
18990604 ELECTRONIC CARBURETOR INJECTION STAUBACH, CARL C 11d overdue
18424611 FILTER OIL FORMULATION LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M 13d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1773 3
3747 1
2842 1
1776 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18990604 ELECTRONIC CARBURETOR INJECTION STAUBACH, CARL C 3747 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2024
18920761 Pleat Counter NGUYEN, HAI L 2842 Other Non-Final OA 19d Pending Oct 18, 2024
18424611 FILTER OIL FORMULATION LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M 1776 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Jan 26, 2024
18514315 CONE AIR FILTER BUI, DUNG H 1773 Other Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending Nov 20, 2023
18217306 MAGNETIC COVER FOR AIR FILTER BOX CLEMENTE, ROBERT ARTHUR 1773 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Jun 30, 2023
17831820 HVAC Home Air Filter CLEMENTE, ROBERT ARTHUR 1773 §112 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Jun 03, 2022

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