Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Kitty Hawk Corporation

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (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%)
2
Medium (40%)
1
Easy (20%)
2
Unknown (40%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (40%)
§112 only1 (20%)
No statute on record2 (40%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
20% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
80% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ELLIS, CHRISTOPHER P 1 82.3% +0.1%
GREENE, DANIEL LAWSON 1 76.2% +17.0%
NGUYEN, NGA X 1 77.7% +6.4%
DANGOL, ASHESH 1 69.3% +48.1%
BARROW, AMANDA J 1 54.7% +19.0%

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
17940396 BATTERY SYSTEM WITH CYLINDRICAL BATTERY CELLS AND RIBBON BONDING BARROW, AMANDA J 87d overdue
18741393 CHARGING STATION FOR SELF-BALANCING MULTICOPTER DANGOL, ASHESH 44d overdue
18925993 ACTUATOR MONITORING SYSTEM USING INERTIAL SENSORS GREENE, DANIEL LAWSON 28d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3644 1
3665 1
3662 1
3642 1
1729 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19184638 DECOUPLED HAND CONTROLS FOR AIRCRAFT WITH VERTICAL TAKEOFF AND LANDING AND FORWARD FLIGHT CAPABILITIES ELLIS, CHRISTOPHER P 3644 Other Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Apr 21, 2025
18925993 ACTUATOR MONITORING SYSTEM USING INERTIAL SENSORS GREENE, DANIEL LAWSON 3665 Other Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2024
18794350 GEOMETRY-BASED FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM NGUYEN, NGA X 3662 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Aug 05, 2024
18741393 CHARGING STATION FOR SELF-BALANCING MULTICOPTER DANGOL, ASHESH 3642 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Jun 12, 2024
17940396 BATTERY SYSTEM WITH CYLINDRICAL BATTERY CELLS AND RIBBON BONDING BARROW, AMANDA J 1729 §112 Non-Final OA 87d overdue Pending Sep 08, 2022

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