Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Coway Co. Ltd.

10 pending office actions • 8 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 41 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
6
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
9
Medium (90%)
1
Easy (10%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (70%)
§102 only2 (20%)
§112 only1 (10%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

2
Life Sciences
20% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
80% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN 1 55.5% +23.7%
THROOP, MYLES A 1 58.0% +41.4%
HARE, DAVID R 1 67.4% +32.5%
NGUYEN, TUAN N 1 68.2% +26.4%
NORMAN, MARC E 1 84.0% +10.0%
ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA 1 63.6% +24.1%
GAYE, SAMBA NMN 1 63.7% +36.5%
GONZALEZ, MADELINE 1 72.4% +15.7%
PEO, JONATHAN M 1 48.5% +48.3%
HALL, LUKE F 1 48.4% +64.6%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18818823 ICE MAKER HAVING A REFRIGERANT PREHEATING UNIT AND CONTROLLING METHOD OF THE SAME NORMAN, MARC E 27d

Interview Candidates (10)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18788039 TANK ASSEMBLY AND BIDET INCLUDING THE SAME ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA 30d overdue
18987897 BED HARE, DAVID R 8d
19082323 WATER TANK IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN 14d
18690566 BIDET NGUYEN, TUAN N 27d
18818823 ICE MAKER HAVING A REFRIGERANT PREHEATING UNIT AND CONTROLLING METHOD OF THE SAME NORMAN, MARC E 27d
18609998 ICE MAKING APPARATUS AND ICE MAKING WATER PURIFIER INCLUDING THE SAME GAYE, SAMBA NMN 28d
18725258 MATTRESS ASSEMBLY AND FURNITURE COMPRISING SAME THROOP, MYLES A 29d
18256448 VENTILATED MATTRESS AND BED COMPRISING VENTILATED MATTRESS HALL, LUKE F 40d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3673 2
3763 2
3799 1
3679 1
3754 1
3736 1
1773 1
1779 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19082323 WATER TANK IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN 3799 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Mar 18, 2025
18725258 MATTRESS ASSEMBLY AND FURNITURE COMPRISING SAME THROOP, MYLES A 3679 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jan 21, 2025
18987897 BED HARE, DAVID R 3673 §102 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Dec 19, 2024
18690566 BIDET NGUYEN, TUAN N 3754 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Sep 12, 2024
18818823 ICE MAKER HAVING A REFRIGERANT PREHEATING UNIT AND CONTROLLING METHOD OF THE SAME NORMAN, MARC E 3763 §112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Aug 29, 2024
18788039 TANK ASSEMBLY AND BIDET INCLUDING THE SAME ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA 3736 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jul 29, 2024
18609998 ICE MAKING APPARATUS AND ICE MAKING WATER PURIFIER INCLUDING THE SAME GAYE, SAMBA NMN 3763 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Mar 19, 2024
18555820 FLOW PATH ASSEMBLY FOR WATER PURIFIER GONZALEZ, MADELINE 1773 §102 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Oct 17, 2023
18258300 HOT WATER SUPPLY DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR SAME, AND WATER TREATMENT DEVICE PEO, JONATHAN M 1779 §103 Non-Final OA 60d Pending Jun 19, 2023
18256448 VENTILATED MATTRESS AND BED COMPRISING VENTILATED MATTRESS HALL, LUKE F 3673 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending Jun 08, 2023

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