Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Ka Filing LLC

11 pending office actions • 9 clients • 11 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 868 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
1
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 7 days (1)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
9
Medium (82%)
2
Easy (18%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (73%)
§102 only1 (9%)
§112 only2 (18%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
27% of docket
2
Information Tech
18% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
45% of docket
1
Business / Other
9% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MCNICHOLS, ERET C 1 74.7% -16.0%
TON, MARTIN TRUYEN 1 61.7% +35.0%
CELANI, NICHOLAS P 1 46.0% +42.6%
TAYLOR, SAKINAH W 1 86.8% +23.0%
DAVISON, LAURA L 1 32.5% +35.8%
KIM, DANIELLE A 1 37.2% +58.0%
NGUYEN, HUNG D 1 71.2% +30.4%
STAPON, ANTHONY SCOTT 1
KHAN, AMINA S 1 48.0% +43.3%
WOLFF, ARIELLE R 1 46.9% +31.2%

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
18423359 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MITIGATE DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE (DDoS) ATTACKS TAYLOR, SAKINAH W 134d overdue

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18721196 STEREOTACTIC DEVICE FOR USE IN MEDICAL PROCEDURES TON, MARTIN TRUYEN 149d overdue
18423359 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MITIGATE DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE (DDoS) ATTACKS TAYLOR, SAKINAH W 134d overdue
18423367 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED FIREWALL PROTECTION CELANI, NICHOLAS P 127d overdue
18037330 BULLET CONTAINMENT TRAP WITH A MODULAR BACKSTOP DAVISON, LAURA L 99d overdue
17889466 INTELLIGENT START AND STOP MASSAGER WOLFF, ARIELLE R 97d overdue
18093339 SEASONING BOX AND MOUNTING ASSEMBLY THEREOF NGUYEN, HUNG D 67d overdue
18013914 ENZYME COMPOSITION FOR CONVERTING PLANT BIOMASS INTO HIGH QUALITY TEXTILE GRADE FIBER KHAN, AMINA S 60d overdue
18023403 POLY HYDROXY OLIGOMER COATED DOLUTEGRAVIR AQUASOMES AND METHOD THEREOF KIM, DANIELLE A 6d

Client Portfolio (9 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37712
36321
24491
24071
39931
16131
37611
16561
17611
37851

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18843722 PLATFORM FOR FIXING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS P Set Di Fabio Lavelli MCNICHOLS, ERET C 3632 §112 Non-Final OA 112d overdue Pending Sep 04, 2024
18721196 STEREOTACTIC DEVICE FOR USE IN MEDICAL PROCEDURES Nesa Medtech Private Limited TON, MARTIN TRUYEN 3771 §102 Non-Final OA 149d overdue Pending Jun 18, 2024
18423367 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED FIREWALL PROTECTION Apurv Bordia CELANI, NICHOLAS P 2449 §103 Non-Final OA 127d overdue Pending Jan 26, 2024
18423359 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MITIGATE DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE (DDoS) ATTACKS Apurv Bordia TAYLOR, SAKINAH W 2407 §103 Non-Final OA 134d overdue Pending Jan 26, 2024
18037330 BULLET CONTAINMENT TRAP WITH A MODULAR BACKSTOP Zen Technologies Limited DAVISON, LAURA L 3993 §112 Non-Final OA 99d overdue Pending May 17, 2023
18023403 POLY HYDROXY OLIGOMER COATED DOLUTEGRAVIR AQUASOMES AND METHOD THEREOF Varalakshmi Mummidi KIM, DANIELLE A 1613 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Feb 27, 2023
18093339 SEASONING BOX AND MOUNTING ASSEMBLY THEREOF Shenzhen City Itas In-Tech Sanitary Wares Co.,Limited NGUYEN, HUNG D 3761 §103 Non-Final OA 67d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2023
18013913 SINGLE BATH CONVERSION OF PLANT DERIVED BIOMASS TO TEXTILE GRADE FIBERS Gencrest Private Limited STAPON, ANTHONY SCOTT 1656 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Dec 30, 2022
18013914 ENZYME COMPOSITION FOR CONVERTING PLANT BIOMASS INTO HIGH QUALITY TEXTILE GRADE FIBER Gencrest Private Limited KHAN, AMINA S 1761 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Dec 30, 2022
17889466 INTELLIGENT START AND STOP MASSAGER Shenzhen Alltokee Technology Co., Ltd. WOLFF, ARIELLE R 3785 §103 Non-Final OA 97d overdue Pending Aug 17, 2022
17761198 PULSE BALLOON AND USE THEREOF Shanghai Bio-Heart Biological Technology Co., Ltd. HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT 3771 §103 Final Rejection 100d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2022

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