Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
13 pending office actions • 7 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 45 patents granted in the last 365 days
Coway Co., Ltd. is managing 13 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 13 distinct examiners. The portfolio spans 7 distinct art units, suggesting a range of technical classifications.
IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This highlights a prosecution landscape where no examiner holds more than 1 of the company's pending actions across the 7 art units. This distribution ensures that the company's legal strategy is spread among the examiners at the office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 2 (15%) |
| §102 only | 2 (15%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 9 (69%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN | 1 | 55.4% | +24.7% |
| WILLIAMS, PATRICK C | 1 | 80.6% | +25.3% |
| OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 1 | 59.2% | +32.5% |
| HARE, DAVID R | 1 | 67.6% | +32.5% |
| NIEVES, NELSON J | 1 | 75.3% | +16.6% |
| PANCHOLI, VISHAL J | 1 | 72.8% | +25.3% |
| SCHULT, ALLEN | 1 | 67.7% | +31.2% |
| SHIPMAN, KYLE HARRISON | 1 | — | — |
| NORMAN, MARC E | 1 | 84.1% | +10.7% |
| KEYWORTH, PETER | 1 | 58.3% | +23.9% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19107394 | WATER PURIFIER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | WILLIAMS, PATRICK C | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18987897 | BED | HARE, DAVID R | 8d |
| 19082323 | WATER TANK | IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN | 14d |
| 18818823 | ICE MAKER HAVING A REFRIGERANT PREHEATING UNIT AND CONTROLLING METHOD OF THE SAME | NORMAN, MARC E | 27d |
| 19106485 | EVAPORATOR FOR ICE MAKING, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING EVAPORATOR FOR ICE MAKING | OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | — |
| 18870493 | COLD WATER TANK ASSEMBLY | NIEVES, NELSON J | — |
| 18882939 | AIR TREATMENT APPARATUS | SCHULT, ALLEN | — |
| 18827345 | WATER PURIFIER | SHIPMAN, KYLE HARRISON | — |
| 18722177 | FILTER MEMBER AND FILTER STRUCTURE INCLUDING SAME | KEYWORTH, PETER | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18987897 | BED | HARE, DAVID R | 8d |
| 19082323 | WATER TANK | IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN | 14d |
| 18818823 | ICE MAKER HAVING A REFRIGERANT PREHEATING UNIT AND CONTROLLING METHOD OF THE SAME | NORMAN, MARC E | 27d |
| 19107394 | WATER PURIFIER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | WILLIAMS, PATRICK C | — |
| 19106485 | EVAPORATOR FOR ICE MAKING, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING EVAPORATOR FOR ICE MAKING | OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | — |
| 18870493 | COLD WATER TANK ASSEMBLY | NIEVES, NELSON J | — |
| 18870538 | WATER OUTLET UNIT AND WATER PURIFIER COMPRISING SAME | PANCHOLI, VISHAL J | — |
| 18882939 | AIR TREATMENT APPARATUS | SCHULT, ALLEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 2 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3673 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19082323 | WATER TANK | IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN | 3799 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19107394 | WATER PURIFIER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | WILLIAMS, PATRICK C | 3753 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19106485 | EVAPORATOR FOR ICE MAKING, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING EVAPORATOR FOR ICE MAKING | OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 18987897 | BED | HARE, DAVID R | 3673 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18870493 | COLD WATER TANK ASSEMBLY | NIEVES, NELSON J | 3763 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
| 18870538 | WATER OUTLET UNIT AND WATER PURIFIER COMPRISING SAME | PANCHOLI, VISHAL J | — | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
| 18882939 | AIR TREATMENT APPARATUS | SCHULT, ALLEN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18827345 | WATER PURIFIER | SHIPMAN, KYLE HARRISON | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18818823 | ICE MAKER HAVING A REFRIGERANT PREHEATING UNIT AND CONTROLLING METHOD OF THE SAME | NORMAN, MARC E | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18722177 | FILTER MEMBER AND FILTER STRUCTURE INCLUDING SAME | KEYWORTH, PETER | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18721301 | CLEANING FLOW PATH AND WATER PURIFIER ASSEMBLY INCLUDING SAME | HUANG, RYAN | 3754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18546822 | AIR-CLEANING FILTER HAVING DUST COLLECTING AND DEODORIZING FUNCTIONS AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | SPAMER, DONALD R | 1799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 18004137 | FILTER UNIT AND AIR PURIFIER HAVING SAME | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 1776 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2023 |
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