Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Kyndryl Inc.

28 pending office actions • 23 art units • 28 examiners • 0 of 28 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 61 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

28
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
9
Final Rejections
10
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due later (2)

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.

18
Hard (64%)
10
Medium (36%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (11%)
§101 + other8 (29%)
§103 only8 (29%)
§102 only2 (7%)
Multi-statute (no §101)7 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
19
Information Tech
68% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
25% of docket
2
Business / Other
7% 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.

280 h
Manual time on pending OAs
56 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
98 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA 1 38.6% +35.9%
SHAHABI, ARI ARASTOO 1 55.5% +41.1%
DOAN, TRANG T 1 82.9% +16.9%
ALATA, AYOUB 1 81.8% +26.7%
NGUYEN, LINH T 1 70.8% +26.0%
NGUY, CHI D 1 75.2% +15.9%
JEANTY, ROMAIN 1 75.5% +19.8%
KONG, ALAN LINGQIAN 1 79.2% +36.4%
PHAM, PHUC H 1 89.5% +18.0%
WILLOUGHBY, ALICIA M 1 53.8% +25.8%

Quick Wins (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18778103 PERSONALIZED PASSWORD PROMPTING SYSTEM PHAM, PHUC H

Hard Cases (18)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17563113 COGNITIVE SELECTION OF COMPOSITE SERVICES KOESTER, MICHAEL RICHARD 98d overdue
18813799 UNSTRUCTURED DATA ACCESS CONTROL KONG, ALAN LINGQIAN 46d overdue
18228401 HEURISTIC DATA PIPELINE SCHEDULING CASTANEDA, IVAN ALEXANDER 43d overdue
18388579 EXPEDITED OPERATIONS RESOLUTION SINGH, RUPANGINI 30d overdue
18157376 COST FORECASTING AND MONITORING FOR CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE WEBB III, JAMES L 8d overdue
17726887 PRE-DEPLOYMENT VALIDATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE TOPOLOGY HAN, BYUNGKWON 2d overdue
17592852 PREDICTING RECOVERY POINT OBJECTIVE DRIFTS KNIGHT, PAUL M 72d
18411161 BEST HEDGING, UTILIZATION AND VALIDATION OF INFORMATION (BHUVI) MACHINE LEARNING MODEL AHMED, ENAM 83d

Interview Candidates (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18813799 UNSTRUCTURED DATA ACCESS CONTROL KONG, ALAN LINGQIAN 46d overdue
18937636 DATA-DRIVEN PRIORITIZED CUSTOMER RETENTION DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA
18929718 SUSTAINABILITY SCORING AND RECOMMENDATION FOR APPLICATION SERVICES SHAHABI, ARI ARASTOO
18918822 IDENTIFICATION OF USERS OF SYSTEMS DOAN, TRANG T
18916853 GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) DRIVEN CONVERSATIONAL AUTHENTICATION ALATA, AYOUB
18915573 ADVANCED ACCESS CONTROL LIST (ACL) BASED ON DATA RESIDENCY NGUYEN, LINH T
18905336 SMART DEPLOYMENT OF HONEYPOT ENVIRONMENT ON PERSONAL DEVICES NGUY, CHI D
18829841 ADAPTIVE GUIDELINE CUSTOMIZATION AND PROFILING FOR TAILORED ASSESSMENTS JEANTY, ROMAIN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3624 3
2494 2
3623 1
3697 1
2431 1
2459 1
2435 1
2408 1
2156 1
2493 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18937636 DATA-DRIVEN PRIORITIZED CUSTOMER RETENTION DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA 3623 §101§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Nov 05, 2024
18929718 SUSTAINABILITY SCORING AND RECOMMENDATION FOR APPLICATION SERVICES SHAHABI, ARI ARASTOO 3697 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 29, 2024
18918822 IDENTIFICATION OF USERS OF SYSTEMS DOAN, TRANG T 2431 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 17, 2024
18916853 GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) DRIVEN CONVERSATIONAL AUTHENTICATION ALATA, AYOUB 2494 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 16, 2024
18915573 ADVANCED ACCESS CONTROL LIST (ACL) BASED ON DATA RESIDENCY NGUYEN, LINH T 2459 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 15, 2024
18905336 SMART DEPLOYMENT OF HONEYPOT ENVIRONMENT ON PERSONAL DEVICES NGUY, CHI D 2435 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 03, 2024
18829841 ADAPTIVE GUIDELINE CUSTOMIZATION AND PROFILING FOR TAILORED ASSESSMENTS JEANTY, ROMAIN 3624 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 10, 2024
18813799 UNSTRUCTURED DATA ACCESS CONTROL KONG, ALAN LINGQIAN 2494 §103§112 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Aug 23, 2024
18778103 PERSONALIZED PASSWORD PROMPTING SYSTEM PHAM, PHUC H 2408 §103Other Final Rejection Pending Jul 19, 2024
18646427 PREVENTION OF VIOLATION OF SECURITY POLICIES AND COMPLIANCE DURING ENROLLMENT ON WEB APPLICATIONS AND SYSTEMS WILLOUGHBY, ALICIA M 2156 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 25, 2024
18592950 BUSINESS SERVICE HEALTH SCORE VALIDATION FRAMEWORK LOTTICH, JOSHUA P §101§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 01, 2024
18436070 AUTOMATED SINGLE-TO-GROUPED CLOUD COMPUTING OPTIMIZATION HUQ, FARZANA B §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 08, 2024
18421531 DETECTING IMPERSONATION ATTACKS SHAW, PETER C 2493 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 24, 2024
18411161 BEST HEDGING, UTILIZATION AND VALIDATION OF INFORMATION (BHUVI) MACHINE LEARNING MODEL AHMED, ENAM 2112 §101§103 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Jan 12, 2024
18407542 IDENTIFICATION AND MITIGATION OF SPOOFING ATTACKS ON AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES ABYANEH, ALI S 2437 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jan 09, 2024
18393774 IMPERSONATION ATTACK DETECTION AND PREVENTION SYSTEM HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS 2491 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 22, 2023
18533688 INTELLIGENT SENTIMENT-BASED TICKET ALLOCATION/PROCESSING TORRES CHANZA, GABRIEL JOSE 3625 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 08, 2023
18388579 EXPEDITED OPERATIONS RESOLUTION SINGH, RUPANGINI 3628 §101 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Nov 10, 2023
18488319 PREVENTING HARASSMENT ON METAVERSE ENVIRONMENTS AUGUSTINE, NICHOLAS 2178 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 17, 2023
18378240 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESIDUAL RISK ASSESSMENT IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT PATEL, DHAIRYA A 2453 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 10, 2023
18477668 MACHINE LEARNING MODEL FOR GENERATING CODE SNIPPETS AND TEMPLATES KENDALL, CHUCK O 2192 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 29, 2023
18228401 HEURISTIC DATA PIPELINE SCHEDULING CASTANEDA, IVAN ALEXANDER 2195 §103§112 Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2023
18112574 AUTOMATED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) INSPECTION OF CUSTOMIZED PART PRODUCTION OLSHANNIKOV, ALEKSEY 2118 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 22, 2023
18157376 COST FORECASTING AND MONITORING FOR CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE WEBB III, JAMES L 3624 §101§103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jan 20, 2023
17726887 PRE-DEPLOYMENT VALIDATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE TOPOLOGY HAN, BYUNGKWON 2121 §101§103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Apr 22, 2022
17592852 PREDICTING RECOVERY POINT OBJECTIVE DRIFTS KNIGHT, PAUL M 2148 §101§112 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Feb 04, 2022
17563113 COGNITIVE SELECTION OF COMPOSITE SERVICES KOESTER, MICHAEL RICHARD 3624 §101 Final Rejection 98d overdue Pending Dec 28, 2021
17509680 IDENTIFYING EDGE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT LOCATIONS FOR WORKLOAD MIGRATION JABLON, ASHER H. 2127 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Oct 25, 2021

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