Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Kowert Hood Munyon Rankin & Goetzel (Amazon)

53 pending office actions • 1 client • 52 examiners • 42 art units • 0 of 53 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 247 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

53
Total Pending OAs
35
Non-Final OAs
16
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 53 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

25
Overdue
0
Due this week
11
Due this month
13
Due in next 60 days
4
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. 53 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (25)Due ≤ 30 days (11)Due ≤ 60 days (13)Due later (4)

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.

5
Hard (9%)
42
Medium (79%)
3
Easy (6%)
3
Unknown (6%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only5 (9%)
§103 only38 (72%)
§102 only3 (6%)
§112 only3 (6%)
Double-patenting + other1 (2%)
No statute on record3 (6%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
42
Information Tech
79% of docket
6
Communications
11% of docket
1
Semiconductors
2% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
8% 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.

530 h
Manual time on pending OAs
106 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
186 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HOANG, KEN 2 72.3% +31.6%
MEJIA, ANTHONY 1 83.4% +19.0%
YU, JAE UN 1 89.9% +10.3%
TSUI, DANIEL D 1 91.6% -0.3%
CHAI, LONGBIT 1 87.9% +31.6%
TRUONG, CAM Y T 1 82.4% +60.7%
GLENN III, FRANK T 1 55.2% +5.0%
ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S 1 66.8% +26.1%
RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN 1 69.1% +38.2%
SONG, HOSUK 1 94.8% +2.7%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19008450 MANAGEMENT OF OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE USING READ-ONLY MULTI-ATTACH BLOCK VOLUMES YU, JAE UN 30d overdue
18817098 MASKING SENSITIVE INFORMATION IN RECORDS OF FILTERED ACCESSES TO UNSTRUCTURED DATA SONG, HOSUK 9d overdue
18984855 MANAGED ATTESTATION SERVICE FOR COMPUTE INSTANCES CHAI, LONGBIT 4d overdue
19022959 MANAGING REPLICATION OF COMPUTING NODES FOR PROVIDED COMPUTER NETWORKS MEJIA, ANTHONY 33d
18981057 EVENT DEDUPLICATION USING MULTIPLE STAGES AND CONCURRENT PROCESSING TRUONG, CAM Y T 60d

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18481937 AUTOMATIC ARCHIVING OF DATA STORE LOG DATA MOSER, BRUCE M 60d overdue
16791050 CONSTRAINTS AND CONSTRAINT SHARING IN A CATALOG SERVICE PLATFORM BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE 35d overdue
18441948 CONTINUOUS FUNCTIONS IN A TIME-SERIES DATABASE KIM, PAUL 33d
18416755 NORMALIZING TEXT ATTRIBUTES FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS STARKS, WILBERT L 35d
18344739 AUTOMATED EVALUATION OF EVIDENCE MAPPING MODELS AGAHI, DARIOUSH 75d

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
18518916 DYNAMICALLY SCALING A DISTRIBUTED DATABASE ACCORDING TO A CLUSTER-WIDE RESOURCE ALLOCATION HOANG, KEN 87d overdue
19008450 MANAGEMENT OF OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE USING READ-ONLY MULTI-ATTACH BLOCK VOLUMES YU, JAE UN 30d overdue
18984855 MANAGED ATTESTATION SERVICE FOR COMPUTE INSTANCES CHAI, LONGBIT 4d overdue
18892144 CONVERTING NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERIES TO SQL QUERIES USING ONTOLOGICAL CODES AND PLACEHOLDERS RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN 14d
17472449 ORDERING TRANSACTION REQUESTS IN A DISTRIBUTED DATABASE ACCORDING TO AN INDEPENDENTLY ASSIGNED SEQUENCE HOANG, KEN 15d
18900105 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT ATTRIBUTE EXTRACTION ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S 27d
19022959 MANAGING REPLICATION OF COMPUTING NODES FOR PROVIDED COMPUTER NETWORKS MEJIA, ANTHONY 33d
18981057 EVENT DEDUPLICATION USING MULTIPLE STAGES AND CONCURRENT PROCESSING TRUONG, CAM Y T 60d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Amazon 53

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21993
24512
21692
21542
21632
24922
21522
21682
21982
26532

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19022959 MANAGING REPLICATION OF COMPUTING NODES FOR PROVIDED COMPUTER NETWORKS Amazon Technologies, Inc. MEJIA, ANTHONY 2451 §102 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jan 15, 2025
19008450 MANAGEMENT OF OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE USING READ-ONLY MULTI-ATTACH BLOCK VOLUMES Amazon Technologies, Inc. YU, JAE UN 2138 §112 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jan 02, 2025
19008481 MANAGING ACCESS OF MULTIPLE EXECUTING PROGRAMS TO NON-LOCAL BLOCK DATA STORAGE Amazon Technologies, Inc. TSUI, DANIEL D 2132 Other Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jan 02, 2025
18984855 MANAGED ATTESTATION SERVICE FOR COMPUTE INSTANCES Amazon Technologies, Inc. CHAI, LONGBIT 2431 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Dec 17, 2024
18981057 EVENT DEDUPLICATION USING MULTIPLE STAGES AND CONCURRENT PROCESSING Amazon Technologies, Inc. TRUONG, CAM Y T 2169 §103 Final Rejection 60d Pending Dec 13, 2024
18940406 FLEET DATA COLLECTION USING A UNIFIED MODEL TO COLLECT DATA FROM HETEROGENOUS VEHICLES Amazon Technologies, Inc. GLENN III, FRANK T 3662 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Nov 07, 2024
18900105 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT ATTRIBUTE EXTRACTION Amazon Technologies, Inc. ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S 2154 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Sep 27, 2024
18892144 CONVERTING NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERIES TO SQL QUERIES USING ONTOLOGICAL CODES AND PLACEHOLDERS Amazon Technologies, Inc. RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN 2163 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Sep 20, 2024
18817098 MASKING SENSITIVE INFORMATION IN RECORDS OF FILTERED ACCESSES TO UNSTRUCTURED DATA Amazon Technologies, Inc. SONG, HOSUK 2435 §102 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Aug 27, 2024
18757282 INDEPENDENT ENCRYPTION FOR CROSS REGION DATA SET REPLICATION Amazon Technologies, Inc. ALMEIDA, DEVIN E 2492 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Jun 27, 2024
18752544 ISOLATION TECHNIQUES AT EXECUTION PLATFORMS USED FOR SENSITIVE DATA ANALYSIS Amazon Technologies, Inc. FARAMARZI, GITA 2496 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Jun 24, 2024
18747329 USING SENSING FUNCTIONS AND ACTUATING FUNCTIONS TO SAFELY IMPLEMENT ACTIONS FOR IOT DEVICES Amazon Technologies, Inc. KABIR, SAAD M 2119 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jun 18, 2024
18656520 AUTOMATED THREAT MODELING USING APPLICATION RELATIONSHIPS Amazon Technologies, Inc. DAVIS, ZACHARY A 2492 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending May 06, 2024
18601916 CUSTOMER-REQUESTED PARTITIONING OF JOURNAL-BASED STORAGE SYSTEMS Amazon Technologies, Inc. MORRIS, JOHN J 2152 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Mar 11, 2024
18441948 CONTINUOUS FUNCTIONS IN A TIME-SERIES DATABASE Amazon Technologies, Inc. KIM, PAUL 2152 §101 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Feb 14, 2024
18416755 NORMALIZING TEXT ATTRIBUTES FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Amazon Technologies, Inc. STARKS, WILBERT L 2122 §101 Final Rejection 35d Pending Jan 18, 2024
18399005 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM WITH ITERATIVE TWO-PHASE ACTIVE LEARNING Amazon Technologies, Inc. JACOB, WILLIAM J 3696 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Dec 28, 2023
18544229 CONTENT EXTRACTION USING RELATED ENTITY GROUP METADATA FROM REFERENCE OBJECTS Amazon Technologies, Inc. MINCEY, JERMAINE A 2159 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Dec 18, 2023
18518916 DYNAMICALLY SCALING A DISTRIBUTED DATABASE ACCORDING TO A CLUSTER-WIDE RESOURCE ALLOCATION Amazon Technologies, Inc. HOANG, KEN 2168 §103 Non-Final OA 87d overdue Pending Nov 24, 2023
18518927 DYNAMIC ENDPOINT MANAGEMENT FOR HETEROGENEOUS MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Amazon Technologies, Inc. EWALD, JOHN ROBERT DAKITA 2199 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Nov 24, 2023
18490686 SECURED DATABASE RESTORATION ACROSS SERVICE REGIONS Amazon Technologies, Inc. WOLDEMARIAM, NEGA 2407 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Oct 19, 2023
18489752 Automated Management of Machine Images Amazon Technologies, Inc. DASCOMB, JACOB D 2198 DPOther Final Rejection 62d Pending Oct 18, 2023
18481937 AUTOMATIC ARCHIVING OF DATA STORE LOG DATA Amazon Technologies, Inc. MOSER, BRUCE M 2154 §101 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Oct 05, 2023
18478647 DISTRIBUTED ORCHESTRATION OF NATURAL LANGUAGE TASKS USING A GENERATE MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Amazon Technologies, Inc. VOGT, JACOB BUI 2653 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18478830 CONTAINERIZED EXECUTION ORCHESTRATION OF QUANTUM TASKS ON QUANTUM HARDWARE PROVIDER QUANTUM PROCESSING UNITS Amazon Technologies, Inc. LU, KEVIN X 2199 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18478766 INTENT CLASSIFICATION FOR EXECUTING A RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED GENERATION PIPELINE FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE TASKS USING A GENERATE MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Amazon Technologies, Inc. SHAW, PETER C 2493 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18477209 INDEXING SPLIT DOCUMENTS FOR DATA RETRIEVAL AUGMENTING GENERATIVE MACHINE LEARNING RESULTS Amazon Technologies, Inc. SOLAIMAN, FOUZIA HYE 2653 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2023
18473152 DYNAMIC PREFETCHING FOR DATABASE QUERIES Amazon Technologies, Inc. VUONG, CAO DANG 2153 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2023
18472402 CONFIGURABLE VIRTUAL MACHINES Amazon Technologies, Inc. LEE, ADAM 2198 §103 Final Rejection 54d Pending Sep 22, 2023
18465916 ATTENTION-BASED DEEP REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR AUTONOMOUS AGENTS Amazon Technologies, Inc. SHUDY, ANGELINA M 3668 Other Final Rejection 34d Pending Sep 12, 2023
18464951 PRIVATE ALIAS ENDPOINTS FOR ISOLATED VIRTUAL NETWORKS Amazon Technologies, Inc. DABIPI, DIXON F 2451 §103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Sep 11, 2023
18462321 DISTRIBUTION OF MESSAGES WITH GUARANTEED OR SYNCHRONIZED TIME OF DELIVERY Amazon Technologies, Inc. NDIAYE, CHEIKH T 2447 Other Final Rejection 40d Pending Sep 06, 2023
18455408 SERVICE FOR MANAGING QUANTUM COMPUTING RESOURCES Amazon Technologies, Inc. MILLS, FRANK D 2194 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Aug 24, 2023
18365927 ARTIFICIAL INELLIGENCE SYSTEM WITH INTUITIVE INTERACTIVE INTERFACES FOR GUIDED LABELING OF TRAINING DATA FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Amazon Technologies, Inc. SAMARA, HUSAM TURKI 2161 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Aug 04, 2023
18356117 GUIDING TRANSCRIPT GENERATION USING DETECTED SECTION TYPES AS PART OF AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION Amazon Technologies, Inc. HE, JIALONG 2659 §103 Non-Final OA 43d Pending Jul 20, 2023
18344764 DOMAIN ENTITY EXTRACTION FOR PERFORMING TEXT ANALYSIS TASKS Amazon Technologies, Inc. LERNER, MARTIN 2658 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jun 29, 2023
18344739 AUTOMATED EVALUATION OF EVIDENCE MAPPING MODELS Amazon Technologies, Inc. AGAHI, DARIOUSH 2656 §101 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Jun 29, 2023
18331087 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING LIVE PARTITIONING IN A DATA STORE Amazon Technologies, Inc. LOONAN, ERIC T 2137 §103 Non-Final OA 59d overdue Pending Jun 07, 2023
18329504 DISCOVERING MATCHING CODE SEGMENTS ACCORDING TO INDEX AND COMPARATIVE SIMILARITY Amazon Technologies, Inc. JEON, JAE UK 2193 §103 Final Rejection 69d Pending Jun 05, 2023
18194391 VEHICLE TEST ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT SERVICE Amazon Technologies, Inc. AGUILERA, TODD 2192 §103 Final Rejection 79d Pending Mar 31, 2023
18192954 QUANTUM CIRCUIT MAPPING USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING TECHNIQUES Amazon Technologies, Inc. RUTTEN, JAMES D 2121 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Mar 30, 2023
18193294 QUANTUM COMPILATION SERVICE Amazon Technologies, Inc. WANG, RONGFA PHILIP 2199 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Mar 30, 2023
18151359 HANDS-ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EDUCATION SERVICE Amazon Technologies, Inc. SCHREIBER, CHRISTINA MARIE 2837 §112 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jan 06, 2023
18067674 ADAPTING PROMPTS SELECTED FROM PROMPT TASK COLLECTIONS Amazon Technologies, Inc. SHAH, ANTIM G 2693 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Dec 16, 2022
18065565 VEHICLE APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT PLANNER Amazon Technologies, Inc. LYONS, ANDREW M 2191 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2022
18053287 VERIFIED ISOLATED RUN-TIME ENVIRONMENTS FOR ENHANCED SECURITY COMPUTATIONS WITHIN COMPUTE INSTANCES Amazon Technologies, Inc. XU, ZUJIA 2195 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Nov 07, 2022
17936793 MANAGED SOLVER EXECUTION USING DIFFERENT SOLVER TYPES Amazon Technologies, Inc. VY, HUNG T 2163 §102 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Sep 29, 2022
17710585 PERSPECTIVE BASED VEHICLE SHADOW SYSTEM Amazon Technologies, Inc. ZECHER, CORDELIA P K 2100 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Mar 31, 2022
17472449 ORDERING TRANSACTION REQUESTS IN A DISTRIBUTED DATABASE ACCORDING TO AN INDEPENDENTLY ASSIGNED SEQUENCE Amazon Technologies, Inc. HOANG, KEN 2168 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Sep 10, 2021
17362729 DETECTING SCHEMA INCOMPATIBILITIES FOR GENERATING VIEWS AT TARGET DATA STORES Amazon Technologies, Inc. ALLEN, BRITTANY N 2169 §103 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Jun 29, 2021
17106027 MONITORING BIAS METRICS AND FEATURE ATTRIBUTION FOR TRAINED MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Amazon Technologies, Inc. ROY, SANCHITA 2146 §112 Final Rejection 21d Pending Nov 27, 2020
17106029 CAPTURING FEATURE ATTRIBUTION IN MACHINE LEARNING PIPELINES Amazon Technologies, Inc. TAN, DAVID H 2145 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Nov 27, 2020
16791050 CONSTRAINTS AND CONSTRAINT SHARING IN A CATALOG SERVICE PLATFORM Amazon Technologies, Inc. BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE 3624 §101 Final Rejection 35d overdue Pending Feb 14, 2020

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