Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ember Technologies Inc. has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating repeated use of some examination channels. Counsel should coordinate related prosecution issues where assignments overlap while preserving application-specific analysis.
GAYE, SAMBA NMN is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. This is the clearest examiner concentration in the portfolio and may support focused review of issues arising in those assigned matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GAYE, SAMBA NMN | 2 | 62.2% | +32.8% |
| DELEON, DARIO ANTONIO | 1 | 65.3% | +30.9% |
| ABRAHAM, IBRAHIME A | 1 | 23.9% | +38.9% |
| CAMPBELL, THOR S | 1 | 75.1% | +1.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18908074 | CHILLED BEVERAGE DISPENSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | GAYE, SAMBA NMN | 18d overdue |
| 18309674 | CHILLED BEVERAGE DISPENSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | GAYE, SAMBA NMN | 18d overdue |
| 18538918 | DRINKWARE WITH ACTIVE TEMPERATURE CONTROL | CAMPBELL, THOR S | 4d overdue |
| 18709771 | PORTABLE CONTAINER WITH COOLING OR HEATING UNIT | DELEON, DARIO ANTONIO | — |
| 18620814 | DRINKWARE CONTAINER WITH ACTIVE TEMPERATURE CONTROL | ABRAHAM, IBRAHIME A | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18908074 | CHILLED BEVERAGE DISPENSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | GAYE, SAMBA NMN | 18d overdue |
| 18309674 | CHILLED BEVERAGE DISPENSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | GAYE, SAMBA NMN | 18d overdue |
| 18709771 | PORTABLE CONTAINER WITH COOLING OR HEATING UNIT | DELEON, DARIO ANTONIO | — |
| 18620814 | DRINKWARE CONTAINER WITH ACTIVE TEMPERATURE CONTROL | ABRAHAM, IBRAHIME A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 3 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18908074 | CHILLED BEVERAGE DISPENSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | GAYE, SAMBA NMN | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18709771 | PORTABLE CONTAINER WITH COOLING OR HEATING UNIT | DELEON, DARIO ANTONIO | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18620814 | DRINKWARE CONTAINER WITH ACTIVE TEMPERATURE CONTROL | ABRAHAM, IBRAHIME A | 3700 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18538918 | DRINKWARE WITH ACTIVE TEMPERATURE CONTROL | CAMPBELL, THOR S | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18309674 | CHILLED BEVERAGE DISPENSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | GAYE, SAMBA NMN | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialEmber Technologies Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Samba Nmn Gaye has the most, with 2 of Ember Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
