Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
KYB Corporation has 5 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The actions involve 5 examiners across 3 art units, showing complete examiner dispersion with some technical-unit overlap.
ROST, ANDREW J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Matter-level tracking and art-unit review are appropriate for this docket.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LESLIE, MICHAEL S | 1 | 81.3% | +14.4% |
| ROST, ANDREW J | 1 | 65.7% | +19.9% |
| NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | 1 | 72.6% | +17.8% |
| TRAN, TRAN M. | 1 | 75.0% | +23.1% |
| RODRIGUEZ, PAMELA | 1 | 87.9% | +10.6% |
| IRVIN, SHEA WOODROW | 1 | 60.0% | -11.5% |
| KRAMER, DEVON C | 1 | 15.3% | +16.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19490322 | PUMP CONTROL DEVICE AND FLUID PRESSURE CONTROL SYSTEM | LESLIE, MICHAEL S | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19109938 | FLUID PRESSURE CYLINDER | NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | 43d |
| 19163973 | INLET HOUSING | ROST, ANDREW J | — |
| 18852435 | STATE MONITORING SYSTEM AND PROGRAM OF INSPECTION EQUIPMENT | TRAN, TRAN M. | — |
| 18845725 | DAMPING VALVE AND SHOCK ABSORBER | RODRIGUEZ, PAMELA | — |
| 18693269 | SHOCK ABSORBER | IRVIN, SHEA WOODROW | — |
| 18550900 | FLUID PRESSURE DUMPER | KRAMER, DEVON C | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19109938 | FLUID PRESSURE CYLINDER | NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | 43d |
| 19490322 | PUMP CONTROL DEVICE AND FLUID PRESSURE CONTROL SYSTEM | LESLIE, MICHAEL S | — |
| 19163973 | INLET HOUSING | ROST, ANDREW J | — |
| 18852435 | STATE MONITORING SYSTEM AND PROGRAM OF INSPECTION EQUIPMENT | TRAN, TRAN M. | — |
| 18845725 | DAMPING VALVE AND SHOCK ABSORBER | RODRIGUEZ, PAMELA | — |
| 18550900 | FLUID PRESSURE DUMPER | KRAMER, DEVON C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 2 |
| 3616 | 2 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19490322 | PUMP CONTROL DEVICE AND FLUID PRESSURE CONTROL SYSTEM | LESLIE, MICHAEL S | 3745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2025 |
| 19163973 | INLET HOUSING | ROST, ANDREW J | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 19109938 | FLUID PRESSURE CYLINDER | NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | 3745 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 43d | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 18852435 | STATE MONITORING SYSTEM AND PROGRAM OF INSPECTION EQUIPMENT | TRAN, TRAN M. | 2855 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18845725 | DAMPING VALVE AND SHOCK ABSORBER | RODRIGUEZ, PAMELA | 3616 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18693269 | SHOCK ABSORBER | IRVIN, SHEA WOODROW | 3616 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18550900 | FLUID PRESSURE DUMPER | KRAMER, DEVON C | 3741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialKYB Corporation has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 7 examiners.
Michael S Leslie has the most, with 1 of KYB Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
