Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 38 patents granted in the last 365 days
Helen of Troy Limited has 2 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 2 examiners and 2 art units, so each action is associated with a separate examination path.
RODRIGUEZ, PAMELA handles 1 pending matter and is the busiest examiner. With no examiner or art-unit concentration beyond that assignment, counsel can manage the portfolio as distinct prosecution matters and tailor each response to its assigned examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RODRIGUEZ, PAMELA | 1 | 87.9% | +10.6% |
| NORMAN, MARC E | 1 | 84.0% | +10.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18886162 | BRAKE MECHANISM | RODRIGUEZ, PAMELA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18838309 | WIRELESS POWERED HUMIDIFIER AND CONTROL SYSTEM | NORMAN, MARC E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18886162 | BRAKE MECHANISM | RODRIGUEZ, PAMELA | — |
| 18838309 | WIRELESS POWERED HUMIDIFIER AND CONTROL SYSTEM | NORMAN, MARC E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3616 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18886162 | BRAKE MECHANISM | RODRIGUEZ, PAMELA | 3616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18838309 | WIRELESS POWERED HUMIDIFIER AND CONTROL SYSTEM | NORMAN, MARC E | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHelen of Troy Limited has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Pamela Rodriguez has the most, with 1 of Helen of Troy Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
