Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Kyndryl Inc.

22 pending office actions • 19 art units • 22 examiners • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 68 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

22
Total Pending OAs
14
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
4
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

11
Overdue
2
Due this week
4
Due this month
2
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. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (11)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (2)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.

1
Hard (5%)
19
Medium (86%)
1
Easy (5%)
1
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (5%)
§103 only17 (77%)
§102 only2 (9%)
§112 only1 (5%)
No statute on record1 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
16
Information Tech
73% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
5% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
23% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

220 h
Manual time on pending OAs
44 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
77 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KONG, ALAN LINGQIAN 1 79.6% +36.9%
SHAIFER HARRIMAN, DANT B 1 81.0% +17.7%
HABASHI, DANIEL MONIS S 1
WILSON, KIMBERLY LOVEL 1 70.8% +17.4%
BOYCE, ANDRE D 1 36.0% +19.2%
VO, TED T 1 81.0% +9.3%
CHEA, PHILIP J 1 67.2% +2.4%
AHMED, ENAM 1 82.1% +19.8%
ABYANEH, ALI S 1 77.8% +55.8%
LEE, GIL H 1 83.0% +30.0%

Quick Wins (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18777854 PERFORM USER VALIDATION USING LOCAL RESOURCES SHAIFER HARRIMAN, DANT B 9d overdue
18597989 Dynamic Benchmarking of Combinations of Main and Sub Libraries for Library Developer Operations (LIBOPS) VO, TED T 3d overdue
18411161 BEST HEDGING, UTILIZATION AND VALIDATION OF INFORMATION (BHUVI) MACHINE LEARNING MODEL AHMED, ENAM 83d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18609139 MEASURING AND INCREASING OPERATIONAL MATURITY BOYCE, ANDRE D 55d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18813799 UNSTRUCTURED DATA ACCESS CONTROL KONG, ALAN LINGQIAN 46d overdue
18777854 PERFORM USER VALIDATION USING LOCAL RESOURCES SHAIFER HARRIMAN, DANT B 9d overdue
18407542 IDENTIFICATION AND MITIGATION OF SPOOFING ATTACKS ON AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES ABYANEH, ALI S 4d overdue
18658097 MERGE-BASED COMPUTATION WILSON, KIMBERLY LOVEL 12d
18524145 CONSORTIUM-BASED INFRASTRUCTURE AND PLATFORM FOR USER AUTHENTICATION LEE, GIL H 13d
18609139 MEASURING AND INCREASING OPERATIONAL MATURITY BOYCE, ANDRE D 55d
18411161 BEST HEDGING, UTILIZATION AND VALIDATION OF INFORMATION (BHUVI) MACHINE LEARNING MODEL AHMED, ENAM 83d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2148 2
2144 2
3624 2
2494 1
2434 1
2407 1
2165 1
3623 1
2191 1
2499 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18813799 UNSTRUCTURED DATA ACCESS CONTROL KONG, ALAN LINGQIAN 2494 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Aug 23, 2024
18777854 PERFORM USER VALIDATION USING LOCAL RESOURCES SHAIFER HARRIMAN, DANT B 2434 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2024
18762810 CHALLENGE-RESPONSE AUTHENTICATION USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HABASHI, DANIEL MONIS S 2407 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 03, 2024
18658097 MERGE-BASED COMPUTATION WILSON, KIMBERLY LOVEL 2165 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending May 08, 2024
18609139 MEASURING AND INCREASING OPERATIONAL MATURITY BOYCE, ANDRE D 3623 §101 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Mar 19, 2024
18597989 Dynamic Benchmarking of Combinations of Main and Sub Libraries for Library Developer Operations (LIBOPS) VO, TED T 2191 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2024
18417386 PREVENTING KEYSNIFFER ATTACKS CHEA, PHILIP J 2499 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Jan 19, 2024
18411161 BEST HEDGING, UTILIZATION AND VALIDATION OF INFORMATION (BHUVI) MACHINE LEARNING MODEL AHMED, ENAM 2112 §103 Final Rejection 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
18524145 CONSORTIUM-BASED INFRASTRUCTURE AND PLATFORM FOR USER AUTHENTICATION LEE, GIL H 2446 Other Non-Final OA 13d Pending Nov 30, 2023
18524243 CONSORTIUM-BASED APPLICATION AUTHENTICATION LEE, CLAY C 3699 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Nov 30, 2023
18388579 EXPEDITED OPERATIONS RESOLUTION SINGH, RUPANGINI 3628 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Nov 10, 2023
18228401 HEURISTIC DATA PIPELINE SCHEDULING CASTANEDA, IVAN ALEXANDER 2195 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2023
18138582 COMPUTING A HIERARCHY OF CLASS LABELS FOR HIERARCHICAL MULTI-LABEL CLASSIFICATION ZECHER, CORDELIA P K 2100 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Apr 24, 2023
18300699 EXPLAINABLE CLASSIFICATIONS WITH ABSTENTION USING CLIENT AGNOSTIC MACHINE LEARNING MODELS CHOI, DAVID E 2148 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Apr 14, 2023
18184938 SELF-LEARNING ONTOLOGY-BASED COGNITIVE ASSIGNMENT ENGINE MEYER, JACQUELINE CHRISTINE 2144 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Mar 16, 2023
18110074 AI CUSTOMIZED MLOPS FRAMEWORK IN A MULTI-TENANT CLOUD ENVIRONMENT NGUYEN, MAIKHANH 2144 §102 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2023
18157376 COST FORECASTING AND MONITORING FOR CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE WEBB III, JAMES L 3624 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Jan 20, 2023
17726887 PRE-DEPLOYMENT VALIDATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE TOPOLOGY HAN, BYUNGKWON 2121 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Apr 22, 2022
17592852 PREDICTING RECOVERY POINT OBJECTIVE DRIFTS KNIGHT, PAUL M 2148 §112 Final Rejection 72d Pending Feb 04, 2022
17563113 COGNITIVE SELECTION OF COMPOSITE SERVICES KOESTER, MICHAEL RICHARD 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 98d overdue Pending Dec 28, 2021
17555780 MACHINE LEARNING MODEL-BASED, OVERHEAD LINE BREAKAGE PREDICTION SYSTEM NGUYEN, LAM S 2853 §102 Non-Final OA 57d Pending Dec 20, 2021

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