Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hs-Tumbler GmbH has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions involve 3 distinct examiners and are located in 2 distinct art units. ISSA, JUEVARA SAOOD is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending action. The distribution of 3 examiners across 2 art units indicates some technical overlap in the company's active filings.
Having 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending actions means that each matter is being reviewed by a different individual. However, the concentration in only 2 distinct art units suggests that the company is interacting with a limited number of examining groups. This allows practitioners to focus on the specific policies and trends of those 2 art units while managing 3 different examiner personalities within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
The presence of 3 pending office actions across 2 art units indicates a robust but technically focused filing strategy. The 1 to 1 ratio of actions to examiners prevents any single person's bias from dominating the portfolio. Instead, the company must manage 3 independent prosecution tracks, each potentially offering different challenges and opportunities within the same 2 technical environments.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 2 (67%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISSA, JUEVARA SAOOD | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN | 1 | 76.5% | +20.7% |
| PERRIN, JOSEPH L | 1 | 77.2% | +21.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18872655 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMMINUTING AND MIXING SOLIDS | ISSA, JUEVARA SAOOD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18840965 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GRINDING | KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18840965 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GRINDING | KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN | — |
| 18840971 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TREATING TEXTILES OR LEATHER | PERRIN, JOSEPH L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| 1711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18872655 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMMINUTING AND MIXING SOLIDS | ISSA, JUEVARA SAOOD | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18840965 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GRINDING | KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN | 3725 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18840971 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TREATING TEXTILES OR LEATHER | PERRIN, JOSEPH L | 1711 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHs-Tumbler GmbH has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Juevara Saood Issa has the most, with 1 of Hs-Tumbler GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
