Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
14 pending office actions • 11 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kinaxis Inc. has 13 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are handled by 11 distinct examiners, with KENDALL, CHUCK O serving as the busiest examiner with 3 pending office actions. The 13 pending office actions are distributed across 10 distinct art units.
The high number of 10 distinct art units relative to the actions suggests a broad technical scope within the Computing & Software sector. KENDALL, CHUCK O is the most active examiner, managing 3 of the total pending actions. With 11 distinct examiners involved, the portfolio remains decentralized. The company must navigate different examiner styles across 10 different art units, though the concentration of actions under KENDALL, CHUCK O provides a point of consistency.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (7%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (29%) |
| §103 only | 4 (29%) |
| §102 only | 4 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (7%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| KENDALL, CHUCK O | 3 | 86.8% | +8.0% |
| UDDIN, MD I | 1 | 77.1% | +73.7% |
| OWYANG, MICHELLE N | 1 | 76.2% | +29.0% |
| SYED, FARHAN M | 1 | 75.1% | +23.1% |
| WU, TONY | 1 | 53.4% | +26.5% |
| CHAPPELL, DANIEL C | 1 | 80.8% | +45.8% |
| MITCHELL, NATHAN A | 1 | 73.0% | +10.0% |
| BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | 1 | 22.6% | +26.7% |
| WILLOUGHBY, ALICIA M | 1 | 53.9% | +25.8% |
| NGUYEN, NGA B | 1 | 53.0% | +25.2% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19077523 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERSISTENCE OF IN-MEMORY ANALYTICS RESULTS | CHAPPELL, DANIEL C | — |
| 18817711 | MANAGING SOFTWARE APPLICATION TEST INTERACTION | KENDALL, CHUCK O | — |
| 18817690 | MANAGING SOFTWARE APPLICATION TEST INTERACTION | KENDALL, CHUCK O | — |
| 18797582 | MANAGING SOFTWARE APPLICATION TEST INTERACTION | KENDALL, CHUCK O | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18955416 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADDRESSING CROSS-PEGGING IN A MULTI-LEVEL SEARCH | MITCHELL, NATHAN A | 15d overdue |
| 18461608 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC DEMAND SENSING AND FORECAST ADJUSTMENT | NGUYEN, NGA B | 54d |
| 19381185 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT CONSOLIDATION OF RECORD BLOCKS | UDDIN, MD I | — |
| 19328872 | TRANSPARENT ACCESS TO AN EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE WITHIN A DATA SERVER | OWYANG, MICHELLE N | — |
| 18800753 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FORECAST ADJUSTMENT | BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | — |
| 17952698 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTEGRATION OF EXTERNAL CALCULATIONS TO CORE HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS | SITIRICHE, LUIS A | — |
| 17541319 | RULE-BASED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMIZING COMPLEX BUSINESS SOLUTIONS | EVANS, KIMBERLY L | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19195873 | QUERY-BASED ISOLATOR | WU, TONY | 29d overdue |
| 18955416 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADDRESSING CROSS-PEGGING IN A MULTI-LEVEL SEARCH | MITCHELL, NATHAN A | 15d overdue |
| 18461608 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC DEMAND SENSING AND FORECAST ADJUSTMENT | NGUYEN, NGA B | 54d |
| 19381185 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT CONSOLIDATION OF RECORD BLOCKS | UDDIN, MD I | — |
| 19328872 | TRANSPARENT ACCESS TO AN EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE WITHIN A DATA SERVER | OWYANG, MICHELLE N | — |
| 19233024 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTED VERSION RECLAIM | SYED, FARHAN M | — |
| 19077523 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERSISTENCE OF IN-MEMORY ANALYTICS RESULTS | CHAPPELL, DANIEL C | — |
| 18800753 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FORECAST ADJUSTMENT | BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2169 | 1 |
| 2168 | 1 |
| 2161 | 1 |
| 2166 | 1 |
| 2135 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| 2156 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 2126 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19381185 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT CONSOLIDATION OF RECORD BLOCKS | UDDIN, MD I | 2169 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2025 |
| 19328872 | TRANSPARENT ACCESS TO AN EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE WITHIN A DATA SERVER | OWYANG, MICHELLE N | 2168 | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2025 |
| 19233024 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTED VERSION RECLAIM | SYED, FARHAN M | 2161 | §102Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2025 |
| 19195873 | QUERY-BASED ISOLATOR | WU, TONY | 2166 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 29d overdue | Pending | May 01, 2025 |
| 19077523 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERSISTENCE OF IN-MEMORY ANALYTICS RESULTS | CHAPPELL, DANIEL C | 2135 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 18955416 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADDRESSING CROSS-PEGGING IN A MULTI-LEVEL SEARCH | MITCHELL, NATHAN A | 3627 | §101 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18817711 | MANAGING SOFTWARE APPLICATION TEST INTERACTION | KENDALL, CHUCK O | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18817690 | MANAGING SOFTWARE APPLICATION TEST INTERACTION | KENDALL, CHUCK O | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18800753 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FORECAST ADJUSTMENT | BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | 3624 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18797582 | MANAGING SOFTWARE APPLICATION TEST INTERACTION | KENDALL, CHUCK O | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18675636 | USER INTERFACE FOR PROVIDING AN ENTITY RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAM | WILLOUGHBY, ALICIA M | 2156 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18461608 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC DEMAND SENSING AND FORECAST ADJUSTMENT | NGUYEN, NGA B | 3625 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 54d | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
| 17952698 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTEGRATION OF EXTERNAL CALCULATIONS TO CORE HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS | SITIRICHE, LUIS A | 2126 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2022 |
| 17541319 | RULE-BASED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMIZING COMPLEX BUSINESS SOLUTIONS | EVANS, KIMBERLY L | 3629 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2021 |
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