Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Kx Technologies LLC

3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

3
Total Pending OAs
0
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

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%)
3
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (67%)
Double-patenting + other1 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

30 h
Manual time on pending OAs
6 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
10 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GONZALEZ, MADELINE 2 72.3% +15.9%
KURTZ, BENJAMIN M 1 56.7% +17.6%

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
18385580 PUSH FILTER WITH FLOATING KEY LOCK KURTZ, BENJAMIN M 61d
18434124 FILTER INTERCONNECT USING A MAGNETIC SHEAR FORCE GONZALEZ, MADELINE
18381461 FILTER INTERCONNECT UTILIZING CORRELATED MAGNETIC ACTUATION FOR DOWNSTREAM SYSTEM FUNCTION GONZALEZ, MADELINE

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1773 2
1779 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18434124 FILTER INTERCONNECT USING A MAGNETIC SHEAR FORCE GONZALEZ, MADELINE 1773 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 06, 2024
18385580 PUSH FILTER WITH FLOATING KEY LOCK KURTZ, BENJAMIN M 1779 DPOther Final Rejection 61d Pending Oct 31, 2023
18381461 FILTER INTERCONNECT UTILIZING CORRELATED MAGNETIC ACTUATION FOR DOWNSTREAM SYSTEM FUNCTION GONZALEZ, MADELINE 1773 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 18, 2023

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