Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 38 patents granted in the last 365 days
Helen of Troy Limited currently has 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This relationship between actions and examiners suggests a lack of examiner-level concentration in the current prosecution phase.
The portfolio is also spread across the distinct art units. This means that the pending office actions are not only being handled by different examiners but are also situated within different specialized units at the USPTO. The busiest examiner is RODRIGUEZ, PAMELA, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This matches the workload of the other examiners involved with the company's applications.
For practitioners, the Helen of Troy Limited portfolio presents a fragmented prosecution landscape. With the distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units for the pending actions, there is no overlap in the personnel or the specific units reviewing the work. Success in these matters will depend on navigating different sets of examiner preferences and art unit standards within the broader Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 | 87.8% | +10.6% |
| NORMAN, MARC E | 1 | 84.1% | +10.7% |
| KRASNOW, NICHOLAS R | 1 | 66.3% | +13.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 3 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 | — |
| 18242088 | COFFEE MAKER DRIP STOP MECHANISM | KRASNOW, NICHOLAS R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3616 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1744 | 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 |
| 18242088 | COFFEE MAKER DRIP STOP MECHANISM | KRASNOW, NICHOLAS R | 1744 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
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