Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 115 patents granted in the last 365 days
Delta Faucet Company has 5 pending office actions, involving 5 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The action and examiner totals match, while the smaller art-unit total indicates that some examination units handle multiple matters.
LOEPPKE, JANIE MEREDITH is identified as the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate responses across 3 art units while preserving examiner-specific analysis.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOEPPKE, JANIE MEREDITH | 1 | 55.4% | +28.9% |
| NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | 1 | 81.4% | +12.6% |
| BARRERA, JUAN C | 1 | 63.2% | +35.2% |
| DEERY, ERIN LEAH | 1 | 58.4% | +48.7% |
| HICKS, ANGELISA | 1 | 63.4% | +22.0% |
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.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18897816 | VALVE ASSEMBLY FOR AN ELECTRONIC FAUCET | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18787484 | DUAL HANDLE CENTER MOUNTED FAUCET | DEERY, ERIN LEAH | 46d |
| 18800853 | SHOWERHEAD INCLUDING SPRAY NOZZLE AND DEFLECTOR | BARRERA, JUAN C | — |
| 18719014 | ELECTRONIC FAUCET INCLUDING A SCHEDULER | HICKS, ANGELISA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18787484 | DUAL HANDLE CENTER MOUNTED FAUCET | DEERY, ERIN LEAH | 46d |
| 19095878 | BATHING WALL SYSTEM | LOEPPKE, JANIE MEREDITH | — |
| 18897816 | VALVE ASSEMBLY FOR AN ELECTRONIC FAUCET | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | — |
| 18800853 | SHOWERHEAD INCLUDING SPRAY NOZZLE AND DEFLECTOR | BARRERA, JUAN C | — |
| 18719014 | ELECTRONIC FAUCET INCLUDING A SCHEDULER | HICKS, ANGELISA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 3 |
| 3752 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19095878 | BATHING WALL SYSTEM | LOEPPKE, JANIE MEREDITH | 3754 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 18897816 | VALVE ASSEMBLY FOR AN ELECTRONIC FAUCET | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | 3754 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18800853 | SHOWERHEAD INCLUDING SPRAY NOZZLE AND DEFLECTOR | BARRERA, JUAN C | 3752 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18787484 | DUAL HANDLE CENTER MOUNTED FAUCET | DEERY, ERIN LEAH | 3754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 46d | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18719014 | ELECTRONIC FAUCET INCLUDING A SCHEDULER | HICKS, ANGELISA | 3753 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialDelta Faucet Company has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 5 examiners.
Janie Meredith Loeppke has the most, with 1 of Delta Faucet Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
