Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bellwether Coffee Co. has three pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve three examiners and two art units, indicating examiner-level distribution across a smaller set of technical examination settings. THONG, YEONG JUEN is the busiest examiner, with one pending matter.
The assignment pattern calls for coordination across the two art units while preserving separate strategies for each examiner. Counsel should compare claim terminology and technical disclosures where useful, but should not assume uniform treatment across the pending actions. The profile indicates a distributed medical-device prosecution docket without one examiner controlling the active portfolio.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | 1 | 50.3% | +51.1% |
| THONG, YEONG JUEN | 1 | 48.8% | +53.9% |
| TRAN, TIFFANY T | 1 | 60.6% | +47.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18429293 | COFFEE ROASTING SYSTEM HAVING A REMOVABLE VESSEL WITH A RESIDUAL CHAFF CHAMBER AND RESIDUAL WATER CHAMBER | WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | 29d |
| 18429295 | COFFEE ROASTING SYSTEM HAVING AN AGITATOR BLADE SET WITH A MINIMUM AIR GAP | THONG, YEONG JUEN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17482858 | COFFEE ROASTING SYSTEM WITH ROASTING AND COOLING SUBSYSTEMS | TRAN, TIFFANY T | 80d overdue |
| 18429293 | COFFEE ROASTING SYSTEM HAVING A REMOVABLE VESSEL WITH A RESIDUAL CHAFF CHAMBER AND RESIDUAL WATER CHAMBER | WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | 29d |
| 18429295 | COFFEE ROASTING SYSTEM HAVING AN AGITATOR BLADE SET WITH A MINIMUM AIR GAP | THONG, YEONG JUEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 2 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18429293 | COFFEE ROASTING SYSTEM HAVING A REMOVABLE VESSEL WITH A RESIDUAL CHAFF CHAMBER AND RESIDUAL WATER CHAMBER | WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18429295 | COFFEE ROASTING SYSTEM HAVING AN AGITATOR BLADE SET WITH A MINIMUM AIR GAP | THONG, YEONG JUEN | 1792 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 17482858 | COFFEE ROASTING SYSTEM WITH ROASTING AND COOLING SUBSYSTEMS | TRAN, TIFFANY T | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 80d overdue | Pending | Sep 23, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialBellwether Coffee Co. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Franklin Jefferson Wang has the most, with 1 of Bellwether Coffee Co.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
