Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 4 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
KYB Corporation is managing 9 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct art units, showing a level of technical diversity at the USPTO. The portfolio involves a count of distinct examiners that matches the 9 pending office actions, which means that the workload is distributed across the different examiners.
ROST, ANDREW J is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because each examiner is only handling a single application, the company must manage separate relationships across the 4 distinct art units without any overlap in personnel.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (11%) |
| §103 only | 1 (11%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROST, ANDREW J | 1 | 65.6% | +19.9% |
| NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | 1 | 72.5% | +17.5% |
| TRAN, TRAN M. | 1 | 74.8% | +23.4% |
| RODRIGUEZ, PAMELA | 1 | 87.8% | +10.6% |
| WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 1 | 78.7% | +14.1% |
| IRVIN, SHEA WOODROW | 1 | 80.0% | -32.1% |
| KRAMER, DEVON C | 1 | 14.8% | +16.0% |
| RASHID, MAHBUBUR | 1 | 67.8% | +20.4% |
| MORRIS, DAVID R. | 1 | 81.9% | +14.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18018183 | DAMPING VALVE AND SHOCK ABSORBER | MORRIS, DAVID R. | 18d overdue |
| 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 | — |
| 18724203 | SHOCK ABSORBER | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | — |
| 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18018183 | DAMPING VALVE AND SHOCK ABSORBER | MORRIS, DAVID R. | 18d overdue |
| 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 | — |
| 18724203 | SHOCK ABSORBER | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | — |
| 18550900 | FLUID PRESSURE DUMPER | KRAMER, DEVON C | — |
| 18265809 | SHOCK ABSORBER | RASHID, MAHBUBUR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3616 | 3 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Final Rejection | 43d | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 18852435 | STATE MONITORING SYSTEM AND PROGRAM OF INSPECTION EQUIPMENT | TRAN, TRAN M. | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18845725 | DAMPING VALVE AND SHOCK ABSORBER | RODRIGUEZ, PAMELA | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18724203 | SHOCK ABSORBER | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 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 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18265809 | SHOCK ABSORBER | RASHID, MAHBUBUR | 3616 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 18018183 | DAMPING VALVE AND SHOCK ABSORBER | MORRIS, DAVID R. | 3616 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Jan 26, 2023 |
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