Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Kansas State University Research Foundation

7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

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

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
2
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (2)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%)
5
Medium (71%)
2
Easy (29%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (71%)
§112 only1 (14%)
Double-patenting only1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
86% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
14% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, TAM M 1 77.2% +11.3%
MATZEK, MATTHEW D 1 45.8% +37.1%
KOSAR, AARON J 1 71.0% +30.2%
CANDELARIA, JULIANA IRENE 1
KWIATKOWSKA, LIDIA 1 68.9% +18.9%
MILLER, DAVID L 1 61.9% +37.6%
PRAGANI, RAJAN 1 50.0% +73.5%

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
17997276 ENCAPSULATED COMPOSITIONS AND USE OF OCTENYLSUCCINIC ANHYDRIDE STARCH AS EMULSIFYING AGENT PRAGANI, RAJAN 31d overdue
18177488 CHIRAL-SUBSTITUTED POLY-N-VINYLPYRROLIDINONES AND COMPLEXES WITH BIMETALLIC NANOCLUSTERS AND USES THEREOF MILLER, DAVID L 13d
18131739 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN AGRICULTURAL APPLICATOR KWIATKOWSKA, LIDIA 26d
18697081 RUTHENIUM PHOSPHINIMIDE COMPLEXES AS ACTIVE OLEFIN METATHESIS CATALYSTS NGUYEN, TAM M 33d
18687858 FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER AND METAL DUCTILITY FUSE FOR REINFORCING CONCRETE MEMBERS MATZEK, MATTHEW D 34d
18502985 CHEMICAL MITIGATION OF AFRICAN SWINE FEVER VIRUS AND CLASSICAL SWINE FEVER VIRUS KOSAR, AARON J 84d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1771 1
1786 1
1655 1
1634 1
3666 1
1763 1
1614 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18697081 RUTHENIUM PHOSPHINIMIDE COMPLEXES AS ACTIVE OLEFIN METATHESIS CATALYSTS NGUYEN, TAM M 1771 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Mar 29, 2024
18687858 FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER AND METAL DUCTILITY FUSE FOR REINFORCING CONCRETE MEMBERS MATZEK, MATTHEW D 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Feb 29, 2024
18502985 CHEMICAL MITIGATION OF AFRICAN SWINE FEVER VIRUS AND CLASSICAL SWINE FEVER VIRUS KOSAR, AARON J 1655 DP Non-Final OA 84d Pending Nov 06, 2023
18345951 TMPRSS KNOCKOUT SWINE HAVING A REDUCED SUSCEPTIBILITY TO INFLUENZA CANDELARIA, JULIANA IRENE 1634 §103 Non-Final OA 91d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2023
18131739 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN AGRICULTURAL APPLICATOR KWIATKOWSKA, LIDIA 3666 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Apr 06, 2023
18177488 CHIRAL-SUBSTITUTED POLY-N-VINYLPYRROLIDINONES AND COMPLEXES WITH BIMETALLIC NANOCLUSTERS AND USES THEREOF MILLER, DAVID L 1763 §112 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Mar 02, 2023
17997276 ENCAPSULATED COMPOSITIONS AND USE OF OCTENYLSUCCINIC ANHYDRIDE STARCH AS EMULSIFYING AGENT PRAGANI, RAJAN 1614 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Oct 27, 2022

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