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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
BLUENIX Co., Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. BANKS, KEONA LAUREN is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. This represents a highly centralized and singular prosecution effort for the company.
Because all current activity is focused on 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company's success depends on this single point of contact. This focused approach suggests that the 1 pending office action is of significant importance to the company's mechanical engineering portfolio. Practitioners should prepare for a concentrated interaction, as there are no other pending actions or examiners to balance the prosecution strategy. This singular focus within 1 distinct art unit simplifies the technical scope of the current engagement.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BANKS, KEONA LAUREN | 1 | 59.5% | +3.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19081687 | ICE MAKER WITH INTERNAL EJECTION BUTTON | BANKS, KEONA LAUREN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19081687 | ICE MAKER WITH INTERNAL EJECTION BUTTON | BANKS, KEONA LAUREN | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialBLUENIX Co., Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Keona Lauren Banks has the most, with 1 of BLUENIX Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
