Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Appliance Innovation, Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Those matters involve 3 distinct examiners but only 1 distinct art unit, so examiner variation exists within a common technical unit. The distribution suggests that response planning should account for examiner-specific practice while preserving a consistent technical presentation.
DANG, KET D is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The remaining pending matters are associated with other examiners, making it useful to review both the common art-unit context and the individual reasoning in each action before coordinating amendments or arguments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DANG, KET D | 2 | 61.6% | +37.9% |
| ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | 1 | 72.2% | +30.0% |
| ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 1 | 71.3% | +27.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18099485 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BREWING, MIXING, AND DELIVERING A BEVERAGE | DANG, KET D | 10d overdue |
| 18425089 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED PREPARATION AND DELIVERY OF BEVERAGES | ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | — |
| 18416469 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BREWING, MIXING, AND DELIVERING A BEVERAGE | DANG, KET D | — |
| 18105480 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATED PREPARATION AND DELIVERY OF MULTIPLE BEVERAGES SIMULTANEOUSLY | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18099485 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BREWING, MIXING, AND DELIVERING A BEVERAGE | DANG, KET D | 10d overdue |
| 18425089 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED PREPARATION AND DELIVERY OF BEVERAGES | ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | — |
| 18416469 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BREWING, MIXING, AND DELIVERING A BEVERAGE | DANG, KET D | — |
| 18105480 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATED PREPARATION AND DELIVERY OF MULTIPLE BEVERAGES SIMULTANEOUSLY | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18425089 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED PREPARATION AND DELIVERY OF BEVERAGES | ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18416469 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BREWING, MIXING, AND DELIVERING A BEVERAGE | DANG, KET D | 3761 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18105480 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATED PREPARATION AND DELIVERY OF MULTIPLE BEVERAGES SIMULTANEOUSLY | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 3761 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2023 |
| 18099485 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BREWING, MIXING, AND DELIVERING A BEVERAGE | DANG, KET D | 3761 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Jan 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAppliance Innovation, Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Ket D Dang has the most, with 2 of Appliance Innovation, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
