Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
EMC Water LLC has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. While the company is working with 2 distinct examiners, both actions are consolidated within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's current applications are technically similar, which may allow for a more streamlined prosecution strategy despite the involvement of different examiners. The shared 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company is focusing on a specific technical niche.
LEE, CHEE-CHONG is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners involved, the current workload is distributed across the examiners. This arrangement ensures that the company's progress is not solely dependent on a single examiner's schedule. However, the fact that both cases are in 1 distinct art unit means the practitioner should watch for consistent application of prior art across the 2 pending office actions, as the examiners likely share resources within that unit.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, CHEE-CHONG | 1 | 64.3% | +52.5% |
| SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 1 | 51.7% | +39.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18971655 | BOTTLE FILLER FIXTURE FOR DRINKING FOUNTAIN | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18971655 | BOTTLE FILLER FIXTURE FOR DRINKING FOUNTAIN | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | — |
| 18826799 | WRAPPER FOR DRINKING COOLER | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18971655 | BOTTLE FILLER FIXTURE FOR DRINKING FOUNTAIN | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | 3752 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18826799 | WRAPPER FOR DRINKING COOLER | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 3752 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialEMC Water LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Chee-Chong Lee has the most, with 1 of EMC Water LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
