Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cricut Inc. has 6 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 6 actions are distributed among 6 distinct examiners, with each examiner responsible for one case. The portfolio is spread across 5 distinct art units, meaning that while every examiner is unique, two of them are working within the same technical department. This distribution indicates that the company's medical device innovations are being evaluated independently by six different reviewers in five specialized departments.
BANH, DAVID H is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. Because there are 6 pending actions in total, the workload is perfectly distributed across the 6 distinct examiners. This ratio of actions to examiners across 5 art units suggests that the company's research is spread across several technical areas. Practitioners must manage six unique examiner relationships and adapt to the specific standards of five different technical groups to resolve the current pending matters effectively.
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 (20%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BANH, DAVID H | 1 | 71.8% | +12.6% |
| POUNCIL, DARNELL A | 1 | 21.4% | +30.5% |
| WU, YANNA | 1 | 81.0% | +34.1% |
| FLORES JR, DONALD M | 1 | 77.0% | +26.9% |
| CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | 1 | 69.3% | +15.0% |
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.
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18977421 | Method for Providing Digital Content | POUNCIL, DARNELL A | — |
| 18848236 | Crafting Pad | FLORES JR, DONALD M | — |
| 17757086 | Matless Cutting Machine and Methods | CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19248883 | Heat Press | BANH, DAVID H | — |
| 18977421 | Method for Providing Digital Content | POUNCIL, DARNELL A | — |
| 18960880 | System and Method for Providing Digital Content | WU, YANNA | — |
| 18848236 | Crafting Pad | FLORES JR, DONALD M | — |
| 17757086 | Matless Cutting Machine and Methods | CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| 3622 | 1 |
| 2615 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19248883 | Heat Press | BANH, DAVID H | 3725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 18977421 | Method for Providing Digital Content | POUNCIL, DARNELL A | 3622 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18960880 | System and Method for Providing Digital Content | WU, YANNA | 2615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18848236 | Crafting Pad | FLORES JR, DONALD M | 1781 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 17757086 | Matless Cutting Machine and Methods | CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialCricut Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
David H Banh has the most, with 1 of Cricut Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
