Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
BLANCO GMBH + CO KG has 5 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters span 5 examiners and 4 art units, indicating distinct examiner assignments with some shared art-unit context.
TRAN, HANH VAN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Since no examiner has a larger recorded assignment, portfolio review should compare recurring issues across matters while preserving separate strategies for each examination record.
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) | 5 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, HANH VAN | 1 | 74.1% | +13.8% |
| ROHRHOFF, DANIEL J | 1 | 77.7% | +15.2% |
| LIU, HENRY Y | 1 | 75.7% | +13.0% |
| FITZGERALD, JOHN P | 1 | 75.2% | +1.9% |
| BAKER, LORI LYNN | 1 | 78.6% | +6.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18744007 | SANITARY FITTING AND METHOD FOR DISPENSING A LIQUID USING A SANITARY FITTING | BAKER, LORI LYNN | 56d |
| 19103439 | INSTALLATION UNIT TO BE FIXED IN A CABINET, SYSTEM, AND CABINET | TRAN, HANH VAN | — |
| 19103494 | INSTALLATION ELEMENT AND INSTALLATION SYSTEM | ROHRHOFF, DANIEL J | — |
| 18985686 | NUT FOR SECURING A COMPONENT TO A SUPPORT | LIU, HENRY Y | — |
| 18769643 | DEVICE FOR THE INDIRECT MEASUREMENT OF THE FILL LEVEL OF A PRESSURIZED LIQUID IN A FLUID CONTAINER AND METHOD | FITZGERALD, JOHN P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19103439 | INSTALLATION UNIT TO BE FIXED IN A CABINET, SYSTEM, AND CABINET | TRAN, HANH VAN | — |
| 19103494 | INSTALLATION ELEMENT AND INSTALLATION SYSTEM | ROHRHOFF, DANIEL J | — |
| 18985686 | NUT FOR SECURING A COMPONENT TO A SUPPORT | LIU, HENRY Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3637 | 2 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19103439 | INSTALLATION UNIT TO BE FIXED IN A CABINET, SYSTEM, AND CABINET | TRAN, HANH VAN | 3637 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19103494 | INSTALLATION ELEMENT AND INSTALLATION SYSTEM | ROHRHOFF, DANIEL J | 3637 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 18985686 | NUT FOR SECURING A COMPONENT TO A SUPPORT | LIU, HENRY Y | 3654 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18769643 | DEVICE FOR THE INDIRECT MEASUREMENT OF THE FILL LEVEL OF A PRESSURIZED LIQUID IN A FLUID CONTAINER AND METHOD | FITZGERALD, JOHN P | 2855 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18744007 | SANITARY FITTING AND METHOD FOR DISPENSING A LIQUID USING A SANITARY FITTING | BAKER, LORI LYNN | 3754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBLANCO GMBH + CO KG has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Hanh Van Tran has the most, with 1 of BLANCO GMBH + CO KG's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
