Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
32 pending office actions • 29 art units • 32 examiners • 0 of 32 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 65 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kyndryl Inc. maintains a portfolio with 32 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are spread across 32 distinct examiners and 29 distinct art units, reflecting a diversified prosecution landscape. KO, CHAE M is the busiest examiner, though they only hold 1 pending action. This wide distribution suggests that the company's intellectual property covers a broad range of technical sub-fields within software. Practitioners managing this portfolio must prepare for a variety of examination styles, as the ratio of 32 examiners to 32 pending actions indicates no overlap in personnel across the current workload.
The number of 29 distinct art units further emphasizes the complexity of Kyndryl Inc.'s patent strategy. With 32 pending office actions, the company is actively engaging with a large portion of the patent office's software-related divisions. Because KO, CHAE M is the busiest examiner with just 1 pending action, there is no central point of contact or dominant examiner influence to leverage. Each of the 32 actions must be treated as an independent negotiation. This decentralized structure requires a management system to ensure consistency in legal arguments across 29 distinct art units. The diversity of 32 distinct examiners means that the applicant's success depends on navigating a wide array of individual examiner behaviors and art unit specificities.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 only | 3 (9%) |
| §101 + other | 8 (25%) |
| §103 only | 13 (41%) |
| §102 only | 1 (3%) |
| §112 only | 1 (3%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (16%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KO, CHAE M | 1 | 89.1% | +4.8% |
| DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA | 1 | 38.7% | +36.1% |
| SHAHABI, ARI ARASTOO | 1 | 56.7% | +41.2% |
| DOAN, TRANG T | 1 | 83.0% | +16.8% |
| ALATA, AYOUB | 1 | 81.6% | +25.6% |
| NGUY, CHI D | 1 | 75.3% | +15.8% |
| KONG, ALAN LINGQIAN | 1 | 80.4% | +34.3% |
| PHAM, PHUC H | 1 | 89.5% | +18.0% |
| PHAM, TUAN A | 1 | 83.6% | +27.0% |
| HABASHI, DANIEL MONIS S | 1 | — | — |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18813799 | UNSTRUCTURED DATA ACCESS CONTROL | KONG, ALAN LINGQIAN | 46d overdue |
| 18962396 | ACCELERATED INCIDENT RESPONSE AND RECOVERY OPTIMIZATION | KO, CHAE M | — |
| 18778103 | PERSONALIZED PASSWORD PROMPTING SYSTEM | PHAM, PHUC H | — |
| 18775496 | BACKUP DATA MIGRATION | PHAM, TUAN A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17563113 | COGNITIVE SELECTION OF COMPOSITE SERVICES | KOESTER, MICHAEL RICHARD | 98d 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 |
| 18138582 | COMPUTING A HIERARCHY OF CLASS LABELS FOR HIERARCHICAL MULTI-LABEL CLASSIFICATION | GRUSZKA, DANIEL PATRICK | 5d |
| 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 18905336 | SMART DEPLOYMENT OF HONEYPOT ENVIRONMENT ON PERSONAL DEVICES | NGUY, CHI D | — |
| 18778103 | PERSONALIZED PASSWORD PROMPTING SYSTEM | PHAM, PHUC H | — |
| 18775496 | BACKUP DATA MIGRATION | PHAM, TUAN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2494 | 2 |
| 3624 | 2 |
| 2114 | 1 |
| 3623 | 1 |
| 3697 | 1 |
| 2431 | 1 |
| 2435 | 1 |
| 2408 | 1 |
| 2163 | 1 |
| 2407 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18962396 | ACCELERATED INCIDENT RESPONSE AND RECOVERY OPTIMIZATION | KO, CHAE M | 2114 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 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 | §101§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 |
| 18905336 | SMART DEPLOYMENT OF HONEYPOT ENVIRONMENT ON PERSONAL DEVICES | NGUY, CHI D | 2435 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18813799 | UNSTRUCTURED DATA ACCESS CONTROL | KONG, ALAN LINGQIAN | 2494 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 18778103 | PERSONALIZED PASSWORD PROMPTING SYSTEM | PHAM, PHUC H | 2408 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18775496 | BACKUP DATA MIGRATION | PHAM, TUAN A | 2163 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18762810 | CHALLENGE-RESPONSE AUTHENTICATION USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | HABASHI, DANIEL MONIS S | 2407 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18602617 | CODE AGILITY AND VISIBILITY VIA AUGMENTED DECISION-MAKING ALGORITHM | COYER, RYAN D | 2191 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18436070 | AUTOMATED SINGLE-TO-GROUPED CLOUD COMPUTING OPTIMIZATION | HUQ, FARZANA B | — | §101§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 |
| 18524145 | CONSORTIUM-BASED INFRASTRUCTURE AND PLATFORM FOR USER AUTHENTICATION | LEE, GIL H | 2446 | DP | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18524243 | CONSORTIUM-BASED APPLICATION AUTHENTICATION | LEE, CLAY C | 3699 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18388579 | EXPEDITED OPERATIONS RESOLUTION | SINGH, RUPANGINI | 3628 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 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 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Jul 31, 2023 |
| 18138582 | COMPUTING A HIERARCHY OF CLASS LABELS FOR HIERARCHICAL MULTI-LABEL CLASSIFICATION | GRUSZKA, DANIEL PATRICK | 2100 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Apr 24, 2023 |
| 18184938 | SELF-LEARNING ONTOLOGY-BASED COGNITIVE ASSIGNMENT ENGINE | MEYER, JACQUELINE CHRISTINE | 2144 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Mar 16, 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 | 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 |
| 17555780 | MACHINE LEARNING MODEL-BASED, OVERHEAD LINE BREAKAGE PREDICTION SYSTEM | NGUYEN, LAM S | 2853 | §103 | Final Rejection | 57d | Pending | Dec 20, 2021 |
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