Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kuwait University has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters span 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating that each recorded action is associated with a separate examination assignment.
MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should manage the docket on an application-by-application basis because the data shows no shared examiner or art-unit concentration.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 1 | 56.3% | +45.6% |
| HUTTER, GILLIAN A | 1 | 54.5% | +46.0% |
| RHEE, KELSEY | 1 | 38.2% | +41.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17536370 | VENTILATOR AND INFLATION BAG OPERATION OF VENTILATOR | RHEE, KELSEY | 62d |
| 18713484 | System Comprising Photovoltaic Modules with Multiple Vanes and Corresponding Arranging Method | MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 65d |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17536370 | VENTILATOR AND INFLATION BAG OPERATION OF VENTILATOR | RHEE, KELSEY | 62d |
| 18713484 | System Comprising Photovoltaic Modules with Multiple Vanes and Corresponding Arranging Method | MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 65d |
| 17859609 | EXTRACTION OF SHIKONIN FROM ARNEBIA DECUMBENS ROOTS AND USE OF SHIKONIN DERIVATIVES FOR TREATING ULCERS | HUTTER, GILLIAN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1726 | 1 |
| 1625 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18713484 | System Comprising Photovoltaic Modules with Multiple Vanes and Corresponding Arranging Method | MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 1726 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 65d | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 17859609 | EXTRACTION OF SHIKONIN FROM ARNEBIA DECUMBENS ROOTS AND USE OF SHIKONIN DERIVATIVES FOR TREATING ULCERS | HUTTER, GILLIAN A | 1625 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2022 |
| 17536370 | VENTILATOR AND INFLATION BAG OPERATION OF VENTILATOR | RHEE, KELSEY | 3785 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Nov 29, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialKuwait University has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Daniel Patrick Malley Jr. has the most, with 1 of Kuwait University's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
