Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 38 patents granted in the last 365 days
Conair LLC has 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, suggesting a relatively broad spread of technical subject matter within the portfolio. This variety indicates that the company is actively developing multiple different mechanical or medical technologies simultaneously.
The busiest examiner, DEEAN, DEEPAK A, is responsible for 1 pending action. While the pending office actions are spread among different individuals, the concentration in 4 distinct art units indicates some overlap in the technical categories being pursued. Practitioners should be prepared to manage multiple examiner relationships simultaneously to advance these matters. The fact that there are 5 distinct examiners for the pending office actions means that each application is being reviewed by a different person, requiring a customized approach for every case to navigate the specific preferences of the examiners involved.
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 | 3 (60%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEEAN, DEEPAK A | 1 | 48.9% | +42.4% |
| CONNELL, JENNIFER PETSCHE | 1 | 28.6% | +41.5% |
| DANG, KET D | 1 | 61.5% | +37.9% |
| WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 1 | 34.5% | +79.2% |
| THONG, YEONG JUEN | 1 | 49.4% | +53.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18522753 | COMB ASSEMBLY | CONNELL, JENNIFER PETSCHE | 22d |
| 18428617 | MULTI-FUNCTION GRIDDLE | DEEAN, DEEPAK A | 28d |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18522753 | COMB ASSEMBLY | CONNELL, JENNIFER PETSCHE | 22d |
| 18428617 | MULTI-FUNCTION GRIDDLE | DEEAN, DEEPAK A | 28d |
| 18113352 | FOOD BLENDER AND SCRAPER ASSEMBLY FOR A FOOD BLENDER | DANG, KET D | — |
| 18073826 | QUICK CHANGE BLADE ASSEMBLY SYSTEM | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | — |
| 17350277 | TRAY WITH HEATING ELEMENT FOR USE WITH TOASTER OVEN | THONG, YEONG JUEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 2 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 3772 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18428617 | MULTI-FUNCTION GRIDDLE | DEEAN, DEEPAK A | 3762 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18522753 | COMB ASSEMBLY | CONNELL, JENNIFER PETSCHE | 3772 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18113352 | FOOD BLENDER AND SCRAPER ASSEMBLY FOR A FOOD BLENDER | DANG, KET D | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2023 |
| 18073826 | QUICK CHANGE BLADE ASSEMBLY SYSTEM | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 3724 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2022 |
| 17350277 | TRAY WITH HEATING ELEMENT FOR USE WITH TOASTER OVEN | THONG, YEONG JUEN | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2021 |
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