Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kymeta Corporation maintains a company patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently has 5 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is handling a single pending matter. This 1-to-1 ratio between actions and examiners suggests a highly distributed review process. It also implies that the company's legal strategy must adapt to 5 different individual examiner styles simultaneously.
The workload is situated within 3 distinct art units, indicating a moderate level of technical concentration within the broader transportation and mechanical systems field. WAHEED, NAZRA NUR is identified as the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because each of the 5 distinct examiners is only handling 1 pending office action, the workload is perfectly balanced across the current examiner pool. This structure suggests that while the examiners are distinct, the technical focus remains concentrated within a few art units, allowing for some thematic consistency in the prosecution of the 5 pending actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 2 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BACK, AUSTIN M | 1 | 78.7% | +24.2% |
| WAHEED, NAZRA NUR | 1 | 84.6% | +10.7% |
| DAYA, TEJIS A | 1 | 85.4% | +1.6% |
| ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 1 | 80.5% | +14.5% |
| HAMADYK, ANNA N | 1 | 88.6% | +8.1% |
| KIM, PAUL D | 1 | 87.7% | +6.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18238305 | SHARED APERTURE MULTI-BAND METASURFACE ELECTRONICALLY SCANNED ANTENNA (ESA) | HAMADYK, ANNA N | 8d overdue |
| 18757048 | TECHNIQUES FOR SPATIAL DIVERSITY IN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS | DAYA, TEJIS A | — |
| 18142840 | DIE PLACEMENT FOR VARACTORS IN ANTENNAS AND METHOD FOR SAME | KIM, PAUL D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19195269 | METASURFACE APERTURE ANTENNA | BACK, AUSTIN M | — |
| 18905485 | ASSURED POSITION, NAVIGATION, AND TIMING GNSS DENIED SOLUTION FOR A SATELLITE TERMINAL | WAHEED, NAZRA NUR | — |
| 18367395 | SATELLITE (RE-)ACQUISITION AND STATE ESTIMATION FOR MOBILE FLAT-PANEL SATELLITE TERMINALS | ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19195269 | METASURFACE APERTURE ANTENNA | BACK, AUSTIN M | — |
| 18905485 | ASSURED POSITION, NAVIGATION, AND TIMING GNSS DENIED SOLUTION FOR A SATELLITE TERMINAL | WAHEED, NAZRA NUR | — |
| 18367395 | SATELLITE (RE-)ACQUISITION AND STATE ESTIMATION FOR MOBILE FLAT-PANEL SATELLITE TERMINALS | ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3648 | 1 |
| 2845 | 1 |
| 3729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19195269 | METASURFACE APERTURE ANTENNA | BACK, AUSTIN M | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 18905485 | ASSURED POSITION, NAVIGATION, AND TIMING GNSS DENIED SOLUTION FOR A SATELLITE TERMINAL | WAHEED, NAZRA NUR | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18757048 | TECHNIQUES FOR SPATIAL DIVERSITY IN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS | DAYA, TEJIS A | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18367395 | SATELLITE (RE-)ACQUISITION AND STATE ESTIMATION FOR MOBILE FLAT-PANEL SATELLITE TERMINALS | ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 3648 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
| 18238305 | SHARED APERTURE MULTI-BAND METASURFACE ELECTRONICALLY SCANNED ANTENNA (ESA) | HAMADYK, ANNA N | 2845 | §112 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
| 18142840 | DIE PLACEMENT FOR VARACTORS IN ANTENNAS AND METHOD FOR SAME | KIM, PAUL D | 3729 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
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