Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Communications
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Knu-Industry Cooperation Foundation has 6 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are spread across 6 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units. KUNTZ, CURTIS A is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending office action. This one-to-one ratio of actions to examiners and art units suggests a broad and diverse prosecution strategy for this portfolio, with each matter being treated as a unique technical case.
Because there are 6 pending office actions and 6 distinct examiners, the foundation must navigate 6 different sets of examiner preferences. The fact that these are also spread across 6 distinct art units indicates that the portfolio's technical scope is quite wide, touching on many different sub-sectors of communications technology. Practitioners cannot rely on a single art unit's trends or a single examiner's history to predict outcomes. Instead, they must develop a tailored approach for each of the 6 pending office actions. This high level of dispersion across the patent office requires a sophisticated management strategy to ensure consistency across such a varied technical and administrative landscape.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (60%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUNTZ, CURTIS A | 1 | 60.0% | +5.0% |
| LI, AIQUN | 1 | 63.7% | +23.1% |
| DHOOGE, DEVIN J | 1 | 71.3% | +31.7% |
| FORREST, MICHAEL | 1 | 59.6% | +13.7% |
| DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE | 1 | 47.2% | +21.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569062 | METHOD FOR RECOVERING MAGNESIUM BY USING SEDIMENT AND SULFURIC ACID GENERATED IN ELECTROLYTIC CHLORINE GENERATION SYSTEM USING SEAWATER AND BRACKISH WATER | FORREST, MICHAEL | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18328308 | ANTAGONIST MICROORGANISMS FOR INHIBITING FIRE BLIGHT AND COMPOSITION FOR INHIBITING FIRE BLIGHT WITH THE SAME AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT | DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE | 14d |
| 18782234 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE INCLUDING LiFexMn1-xPO4-BASED POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING THE SAME | LI, AIQUN | — |
| 18622282 | METHOD FOR TRAINING A MEDICAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION MODEL USING MULTI-FILTER AUTO-AUGMENTATION | DHOOGE, DEVIN J | — |
| 18569062 | METHOD FOR RECOVERING MAGNESIUM BY USING SEDIMENT AND SULFURIC ACID GENERATED IN ELECTROLYTIC CHLORINE GENERATION SYSTEM USING SEAWATER AND BRACKISH WATER | FORREST, MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2646 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| 2677 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18877582 | BEAMFORMING METHOD AND DEVICE IN RIS ELEMENT GROUPING | KUNTZ, CURTIS A | 2646 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18782234 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE INCLUDING LiFexMn1-xPO4-BASED POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING THE SAME | LI, AIQUN | 1766 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18622282 | METHOD FOR TRAINING A MEDICAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION MODEL USING MULTI-FILTER AUTO-AUGMENTATION | DHOOGE, DEVIN J | 2677 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18569062 | METHOD FOR RECOVERING MAGNESIUM BY USING SEDIMENT AND SULFURIC ACID GENERATED IN ELECTROLYTIC CHLORINE GENERATION SYSTEM USING SEAWATER AND BRACKISH WATER | FORREST, MICHAEL | 1738 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
| 18328308 | ANTAGONIST MICROORGANISMS FOR INHIBITING FIRE BLIGHT AND COMPOSITION FOR INHIBITING FIRE BLIGHT WITH THE SAME AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT | DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE | 1645 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialKnu-Industry Cooperation Foundation has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Curtis A Kuntz has the most, with 1 of Knu-Industry Cooperation Foundation's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
