Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Kim Ip Law Group LLC

23 pending office actions • 19 clients • 21 examiners • 17 art units • 0 of 23 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 41 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

23
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
4
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

12
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (3)

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%)
19
Medium (83%)
3
Easy (13%)
1
Unknown (4%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only15 (65%)
§102 only4 (17%)
§112 only3 (13%)
No statute on record1 (4%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
39% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
4% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
13
Mechanical / Eng
57% 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.

230 h
Manual time on pending OAs
46 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
80 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BATES, DAVID W 3 76.2% +17.0%
KAVANAUGH, JOHN T 1 72.0% +32.6%
FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 1 49.5% +14.6%
RAMANA, ANURADHA 1 82.7% +22.5%
SHABLACK, JOHNNIE A 1 64.9% +34.6%
MCCLURE, MORGAN J 1 46.9% +31.9%
PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP 1 58.1% +27.8%
KUVAYSKAYA, ANASTASIA ALEKSEYEVNA 1 70.6% +38.5%
TU, AURELIE H 1 56.0% +61.0%
SASAN, ARADHANA 1 64.4% +26.4%

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
18495914 SEGMENTED BONE CEMENT EXTRACTOR, AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING CEMENT FROM BONE RAMANA, ANURADHA 8d

Interview Candidates (12)

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
18264348 ERGONOMIC SLEEPING MAT MCCLURE, MORGAN J 195d overdue
17726700 IMPLANT EXTRACTOR BATES, DAVID W 99d overdue
16787815 MEDICAL IMPLANT EXTRACTOR BATES, DAVID W 87d overdue
18263496 A NOZZLE FOR A SYRINGE, A THUMB TAB FOR A SYRINGE, AND AN OSTEOTOME PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP 46d overdue
18552063 WINDOW BLIND AUTOMATION DEVICE SHABLACK, JOHNNIE A 32d overdue
18034878 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PREVENTING AND TREATING CORONAVIRUSES SASAN, ARADHANA 26d overdue
19367537 CLEAT ASSEMBLY KAVANAUGH, JOHN T 2d overdue
18495914 SEGMENTED BONE CEMENT EXTRACTOR, AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING CEMENT FROM BONE RAMANA, ANURADHA 8d

Client Portfolio (19 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37754
37993
37912
37321
16261
36341
36731
37831
17311
16151

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19367537 CLEAT ASSEMBLY New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled, Maintaining the Hospital for Special KAVANAUGH, JOHN T 3732 Other Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Oct 23, 2025
18904353 ARTHROSCOPIC WASHER EXTRACTOR Shukla Medical BATES, DAVID W 3799 §103 Non-Final OA 77d Pending Oct 02, 2024
18572641 COMPOSITION FOR WOUND RELIEF AND INHIBITING A PHD PROTEIN AND METHODS OF TREATMENT Curapep LLC FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 1626 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Dec 20, 2023
18495914 SEGMENTED BONE CEMENT EXTRACTOR, AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING CEMENT FROM BONE Shukla Medical RAMANA, ANURADHA 3775 §102 Final Rejection 8d Pending Oct 27, 2023
18552063 WINDOW BLIND AUTOMATION DEVICE Zachary Sweitzer SHABLACK, JOHNNIE A 3634 §103 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2023
18264348 ERGONOMIC SLEEPING MAT Guangdong Xin Qian Chao Information Technology Co., Ltd. MCCLURE, MORGAN J 3673 §103 Non-Final OA 195d overdue Pending Aug 04, 2023
18263496 A NOZZLE FOR A SYRINGE, A THUMB TAB FOR A SYRINGE, AND AN OSTEOTOME Naturalskn Limited PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Jul 28, 2023
18259218 COMPOSITION FOR USE AS A COATING Organograph AB KUVAYSKAYA, ANASTASIA ALEKSEYEVNA 1731 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 23, 2023
18037989 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE Movemed Limited TU, AURELIE H 3791 §103 Final Rejection 77d Pending May 19, 2023
18034878 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PREVENTING AND TREATING CORONAVIRUSES Novatek Therapeutics, LLC SASAN, ARADHANA 1615 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending May 01, 2023
18190652 APPARATUS, METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DATA QUERY Zilliz Inc. KAZEMINEZHAD, FARZAD 2653 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Mar 27, 2023
18184150 SURGICAL TOOL AND HANDLE FOR A SURGICAL TOOL Shukla Medical GIBSON, ERIC SHANE 3775 §102 Final Rejection 8d Pending Mar 15, 2023
17624506 METHOD FOR INDUCING NEURONAL SYNAPSE FORMATION AND MICROBEADS USED IN SAID METHOD Jiksak Bioengineering Inc. CHANDRA, GYAN 1674 §103 Non-Final OA 60d Pending Mar 08, 2023
18042955 HUMAN ANTIBODY OR ANTIGEN-BINDING FRAGMENT THEREOF AGAINST CORONAVIRUS SPIKE PROTEIN The University of Tokyo BARRERA, IMMACULADA 1671 §112 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2023
18157533 ROBOTIC CUTTING GUIDE SYSTEM FOR COMPUTER-ASSISTED SURGERY Omnilife Science, Inc. HANNA, SAMUEL SALEEB 3775 §102 Non-Final OA 69d Pending Jan 20, 2023
17787719 RAT SPERM FREEZING METHOD AND IN VITRO FERTILIZATION METHOD National University Corporation Kumamoto University TINSLEY, BRENDAN THOMAS 1634 §112 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jan 10, 2023
18003049 INHIBITED OXIDISER OR INHIBITED EXPLOSIVE FOR USE IN REACTIVE GROUND Proactive Ground Solutions Pty Ltd. BHATIA, ANSHU 1774 §102 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2022
18057253 SURGICAL EXTRACTOR Shukla Medical SIPP, AMY R. 3775 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Nov 21, 2022
17911941 FOOT STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION ASSESSMENT DEVICE AND METHODS OF USING SAME New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled, Maintaining the Hospital for Special HENSON, DEVIN B 3791 §112 Final Rejection 81d overdue Pending Sep 15, 2022
17787587 NANOSTRUCTURED BINARY GEL COMPOSITION AND USE THEREOF Veri Nano Inc. XU, JIANGTIAN 1762 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Jun 20, 2022
17726700 IMPLANT EXTRACTOR Shukla Medical BATES, DAVID W 3799 §103 Non-Final OA 99d overdue Pending Apr 22, 2022
17702087 METHODS FOR PREPARING AND ANALYZING BIOPSIES AND BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES Nebulum Technologies Co., Ltd. YAO, LEI 1642 §103 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Mar 23, 2022
16787815 MEDICAL IMPLANT EXTRACTOR The Regents of the University of Colorado BATES, DAVID W 3799 §103 Final Rejection 87d overdue Pending Feb 11, 2020

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