Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
14 pending office actions • 6 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Albea Services has 14 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 13 examiners across 6 art units, showing broad examiner dispersion within a relatively focused set of technical groups.
HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel can coordinate that small examiner group while using art-unit organization to support consistency across the remaining applications.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 7 (50%) |
| §102 only | 2 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | 2 | 41.1% | +49.4% |
| ARIF, NOAH JACOB | 1 | — | — |
| IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN | 1 | 55.6% | +24.6% |
| OLIVER, BRADLEY S | 1 | 61.0% | +14.4% |
| LONG, DONNELL ALAN | 1 | 75.8% | +15.1% |
| WALCZAK, DAVID J | 1 | 74.1% | +17.7% |
| ASQIRIBA, KARIM | 1 | 57.5% | +46.8% |
| JELLETT, MATTHEW WILLIAM | 1 | 80.1% | +17.3% |
| BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 1 | 41.8% | +40.2% |
| NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 1 | 30.1% | +39.8% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18899408 | TUBE HEAD HAVING AN OVAL SHAPE AND TUBE COMPRISING SAID TUBE HEAD | JELLETT, MATTHEW WILLIAM | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18985881 | APPLICATOR FOR COSMETIC PRODUCT, IN PARTICULAR MASCARA, AND ASSOCIATED APPLICATOR ASSEMBLY | HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | 2d overdue |
| 19349331 | DEVICE FOR DISPENSING AND APPLYING A FLUID PRODUCT, IN PARTICULAR A FLUID COSMETIC PRODUCT | HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | — |
| 19092597 | TUBE HEAD AND TUBE COMPRISING SAID TUBE HEAD | ARIF, NOAH JACOB | — |
| 18996784 | ACTUATING PART FOR A STORAGE SUBASSEMBLY OF A FLUID PRODUCT DISPENSER, ASSOCIATED SUBASSEMBLY AND DISPENSER | WALCZAK, DAVID J | — |
| 18539846 | APPLICATOR END PIECE FOR COSMETIC PRODUCT, ASSOCIATED APPLICATOR AND APPLICATOR ASSEMBLY | NOBREGA, TATIANA L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18985881 | APPLICATOR FOR COSMETIC PRODUCT, IN PARTICULAR MASCARA, AND ASSOCIATED APPLICATOR ASSEMBLY | HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | 2d overdue |
| 18602381 | HINGED CAPSULE EQUIPPED WITH AN TAMPER-EVIDENT DEVICE | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 27d |
| 19349331 | DEVICE FOR DISPENSING AND APPLYING A FLUID PRODUCT, IN PARTICULAR A FLUID COSMETIC PRODUCT | HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | — |
| 19085602 | TUBE COMPRISING A CONNECTING RING BETWEEN A SHOULDER AND A SKIRT | IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN | — |
| 19052947 | DEVICE FOR APPLYING A COSMETIC PRODUCT STICK | OLIVER, BRADLEY S | — |
| 18996779 | FLUID PRODUCT DISPENSER COMPRISING AN ACTUATING PART FOR A STORAGE SUB-ASSEMBLY | LONG, DONNELL ALAN | — |
| 18996784 | ACTUATING PART FOR A STORAGE SUBASSEMBLY OF A FLUID PRODUCT DISPENSER, ASSOCIATED SUBASSEMBLY AND DISPENSER | WALCZAK, DAVID J | — |
| 18940138 | FALSE EYELASH SUPPORT FOR FALSE EYELASH DISPENSING DEVICE, ASSOCIATED DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING A NEW FALSE EYELASH SUPPORT | ASQIRIBA, KARIM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 5 |
| 3772 | 3 |
| 3799 | 2 |
| 3735 | 2 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19349331 | DEVICE FOR DISPENSING AND APPLYING A FLUID PRODUCT, IN PARTICULAR A FLUID COSMETIC PRODUCT | HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | 3772 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19092597 | TUBE HEAD AND TUBE COMPRISING SAID TUBE HEAD | ARIF, NOAH JACOB | 3754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19085602 | TUBE COMPRISING A CONNECTING RING BETWEEN A SHOULDER AND A SKIRT | IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN | 3799 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 19052947 | DEVICE FOR APPLYING A COSMETIC PRODUCT STICK | OLIVER, BRADLEY S | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 18996779 | FLUID PRODUCT DISPENSER COMPRISING AN ACTUATING PART FOR A STORAGE SUB-ASSEMBLY | LONG, DONNELL ALAN | 3754 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18996784 | ACTUATING PART FOR A STORAGE SUBASSEMBLY OF A FLUID PRODUCT DISPENSER, ASSOCIATED SUBASSEMBLY AND DISPENSER | WALCZAK, DAVID J | 3754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18985881 | APPLICATOR FOR COSMETIC PRODUCT, IN PARTICULAR MASCARA, AND ASSOCIATED APPLICATOR ASSEMBLY | HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | 3772 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18940138 | FALSE EYELASH SUPPORT FOR FALSE EYELASH DISPENSING DEVICE, ASSOCIATED DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING A NEW FALSE EYELASH SUPPORT | ASQIRIBA, KARIM | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18899408 | TUBE HEAD HAVING AN OVAL SHAPE AND TUBE COMPRISING SAID TUBE HEAD | JELLETT, MATTHEW WILLIAM | 3753 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18602381 | HINGED CAPSULE EQUIPPED WITH AN TAMPER-EVIDENT DEVICE | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 3733 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18409438 | CONTAINER WITH TUBULAR SKIRT | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 3735 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18572721 | APPLICATOR FOR A COSMETIC PRODUCT, IN PARTICULAR MASCARA, ASSOCIATED APPLICATOR ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUCH AN APPLICATOR | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 3772 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18539846 | APPLICATOR END PIECE FOR COSMETIC PRODUCT, ASSOCIATED APPLICATOR AND APPLICATOR ASSEMBLY | NOBREGA, TATIANA L | 3799 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 16683874 | Cap for a Receptacle and Receptacle, in Particular Tube, in Particular Flexible Tube for a Cosmetic Product, Provided with Said Cap | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 3735 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialAlbea Services has 14 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 13 examiners.
Courtney Nguyen Huynh has the most, with 2 of Albea Services's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
