Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cirkul Inc. has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, showing a separate examination path for each action in the supplied profile.
SANGHERA, SYMREN K is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. That assignment is not a majority of the docket, so prosecution attention is distributed rather than centered on one examiner. A practitioner reviewing the portfolio should preserve matter-level distinctions in prior-art analysis, amendment planning, and response timing, while coordinating recurring technical positions across the five matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 1 | 52.0% | +15.5% |
| KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 1 | 50.6% | +34.6% |
| BOOKER, KELVIN | 1 | 79.1% | +6.8% |
| MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | 1 | 81.8% | +10.3% |
| SORKIN, DAVID L | 1 | 67.5% | +13.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18395387 | PORTABLE SYSTEM FOR DISPENSING CONTROLLED QUANTITIES OF ADDITIVES INTO A BEVERAGE | MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | 38d overdue |
| 18380129 | ADDITIVE DELIVERY CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS | SORKIN, DAVID L | 12d |
| 19189784 | DRINKING CONTAINER AND LID | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | — |
| 19076041 | CONTAINER LID ASSEMBLY WITH LOCKING HANDLE AND ADDITIVE CARTRIDGE CHAMBER | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18395387 | PORTABLE SYSTEM FOR DISPENSING CONTROLLED QUANTITIES OF ADDITIVES INTO A BEVERAGE | MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | 38d overdue |
| 18380129 | ADDITIVE DELIVERY CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS | SORKIN, DAVID L | 12d |
| 19189784 | DRINKING CONTAINER AND LID | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | — |
| 19076041 | CONTAINER LID ASSEMBLY WITH LOCKING HANDLE AND ADDITIVE CARTRIDGE CHAMBER | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 1 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| 2119 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19189784 | DRINKING CONTAINER AND LID | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 3735 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
| 19076041 | CONTAINER LID ASSEMBLY WITH LOCKING HANDLE AND ADDITIVE CARTRIDGE CHAMBER | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 3733 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 18882026 | PORTABLE SYSTEM FOR DISPENSING CONTROLLED QUANTITIES OF ADDITIVES INTO A BEVERAGE | BOOKER, KELVIN | 2119 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18395387 | PORTABLE SYSTEM FOR DISPENSING CONTROLLED QUANTITIES OF ADDITIVES INTO A BEVERAGE | MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | 3753 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18380129 | ADDITIVE DELIVERY CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS | SORKIN, DAVID L | 1774 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCirkul Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Symren K Sanghera has the most, with 1 of Cirkul Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
