Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bunn-O-Matic Corporation maintains a patent portfolio with 2 pending office actions, primarily focused within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The prosecution workload is distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a direct correlation between active matters and the administrative divisions handling them.
KIM, TAE W is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This represents 1 of the 2 total pending actions for the portfolio. The distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests that while the volume is low, the technical subject matter requires review from multiple specialized groups within the patent office.
For practitioners, the presence of 2 distinct examiners for the current matters means there is no central examiner influence currently shaping the portfolio's trajectory. Each matter is being evaluated independently by different personnel, requiring tailored strategies for each specific examiner and art unit involved in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, TAE W | 1 | 55.0% | +37.1% |
| TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | 1 | 42.6% | +48.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18200317 | BEAN TO BATCH BREWER | TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | 28d overdue |
| 18724395 | DISPENSER IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM | KIM, TAE 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18200317 | BEAN TO BATCH BREWER | TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | 28d overdue |
| 18724395 | DISPENSER IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM | KIM, TAE W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2876 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18724395 | DISPENSER IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM | KIM, TAE W | 2876 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18200317 | BEAN TO BATCH BREWER | TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | 3761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
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