Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hamilton Beach Brands Inc. has 8 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters span 7 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, showing broad examiner coverage with repeated activity across a smaller set of technical units.
NGUYEN, UYEN T is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That repeated assignment may support focused examiner analysis, while the art-unit distribution favors coordinated review of recurring technical and prior-art issues.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, UYEN T | 2 | 40.3% | +37.1% |
| ANGWIN, DAVID PATRICK | 1 | 67.7% | +13.1% |
| ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | 1 | 72.2% | +30.0% |
| INSLER, ELIZABETH | 1 | 67.1% | +25.0% |
| NGUYEN, HUNG D | 1 | 71.4% | +30.2% |
| BOSS, MARISSA RAE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| PARK, JE HWAN JOHN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18221169 | MULTI-STATION BEVERAGE-MAKING MACHING | BOSS, MARISSA RAE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19271955 | Handheld Appliance For Pressing and Steaming Garments And Other Items | NGUYEN, UYEN T | 11d overdue |
| 18990598 | HANDHELD APPLIANCE FOR STEAMING GARMENTS WITH RETRACTABLE WATER RESERVOIR | NGUYEN, UYEN T | — |
| 18677300 | PLANT-BASED MILK MIXING MACHINE | ANGWIN, DAVID PATRICK | — |
| 18644973 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL OVEN WITH AIR FRYER CAPABILITY | ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | — |
| 18438070 | STAND MIXER WITH RISING REMOVABLE BOWL | INSLER, ELIZABETH | — |
| 18231149 | INDOOR GRILLING APPLIANCE WITH FLAVOR-INFUSION MODULE | NGUYEN, HUNG D | — |
| 18092265 | BEVERAGE-MAKING MACHINE WITH ILLUMINATED BREW BASKET FOR MEASURING LOOSE GROUNDS | PARK, JE HWAN JOHN | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19271955 | Handheld Appliance For Pressing and Steaming Garments And Other Items | NGUYEN, UYEN T | 11d overdue |
| 18990598 | HANDHELD APPLIANCE FOR STEAMING GARMENTS WITH RETRACTABLE WATER RESERVOIR | NGUYEN, UYEN T | — |
| 18677300 | PLANT-BASED MILK MIXING MACHINE | ANGWIN, DAVID PATRICK | — |
| 18644973 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL OVEN WITH AIR FRYER CAPABILITY | ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | — |
| 18438070 | STAND MIXER WITH RISING REMOVABLE BOWL | INSLER, ELIZABETH | — |
| 18231149 | INDOOR GRILLING APPLIANCE WITH FLAVOR-INFUSION MODULE | NGUYEN, HUNG D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 4 |
| 3732 | 2 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19271955 | Handheld Appliance For Pressing and Steaming Garments And Other Items | NGUYEN, UYEN T | 3732 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 |
| 18990598 | HANDHELD APPLIANCE FOR STEAMING GARMENTS WITH RETRACTABLE WATER RESERVOIR | NGUYEN, UYEN T | 3732 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18677300 | PLANT-BASED MILK MIXING MACHINE | ANGWIN, DAVID PATRICK | 3754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18644973 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL OVEN WITH AIR FRYER CAPABILITY | ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18438070 | STAND MIXER WITH RISING REMOVABLE BOWL | INSLER, ELIZABETH | 1774 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 18231149 | INDOOR GRILLING APPLIANCE WITH FLAVOR-INFUSION MODULE | NGUYEN, HUNG D | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2023 |
| 18221169 | MULTI-STATION BEVERAGE-MAKING MACHING | BOSS, MARISSA RAE | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 18092265 | BEVERAGE-MAKING MACHINE WITH ILLUMINATED BREW BASKET FOR MEASURING LOOSE GROUNDS | PARK, JE HWAN JOHN | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialHamilton Beach Brands Inc. has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 7 examiners.
Uyen T Nguyen has the most, with 2 of Hamilton Beach Brands Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
