Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
B&B Acquisition Inc. Dba Candle Warmers Etc currently manages a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution activity is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner, TEKA, ABIY, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently on the docket. This focus indicates a specific examination path for the company's current intellectual property efforts.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the portfolio's technical subject matter is currently confined to a specific regulatory niche within the USPTO. For a practitioner, the fact that TEKA, ABIY handles the 1 pending action assigned to the busiest examiner means that the prosecution strategy relies on the tendencies of this individual. Monitoring this specific examiner's typical response requirements is essential for navigating the current pending matter. Because the 1 pending office action represents the total current workload across the 1 distinct art unit, the applicant faces no conflicting examiner requirements at this time.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TEKA, ABIY | 1 | 84.9% | +10.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18343666 | SCENTED WAX WARMER | TEKA, ABIY | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18343666 | SCENTED WAX WARMER | TEKA, ABIY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18343666 | SCENTED WAX WARMER | TEKA, ABIY | 3745 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialB&B Acquisition Inc. Dba Candle Warmers Etc has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Abiy Teka has the most, with 1 of B&B Acquisition Inc. Dba Candle Warmers Etc's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
