Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
16 pending office actions • 11 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 46 patents granted in the last 365 days
Juul Labs Inc. has 16 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 15 distinct examiners across 11 distinct art units, indicating broad examiner distribution with recurring assignments within the art-unit structure. The docket therefore supports both examiner-specific review and art-unit-level comparison.
NGUYEN, SONNY V is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Those matters provide a basis for comparing claim interpretation, cited references, and amendment treatment under the same examiner. The remaining matters should be organized by art unit and technical subject, while preserving consistent terminology and disclosure positions across the chemistry and materials portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (6%) |
| §103 only | 6 (38%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, SONNY V | 2 | 36.7% | +24.8% |
| SAVUSDIPHOL, PAULTEP | 1 | 77.0% | +17.2% |
| RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O | 1 | 72.2% | +18.8% |
| JOHNSON, CHRISTINA ANN | 1 | 41.3% | -13.4% |
| DINH, PHUONG K | 1 | 87.3% | +8.9% |
| HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 1 | 69.8% | +36.3% |
| VAKILI, DANIEL EDWARD | 1 | 64.4% | +13.8% |
| MARTIN, JOHN MITCHELL | 1 | 24.2% | +8.6% |
| FELTON, MICHAEL J | 1 | 59.6% | +14.5% |
| EFTA, ALEX B | 1 | 59.9% | +25.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17725415 | Encased Battery Cell of a Vaporizer Device | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 6d |
| 18195320 | VAPORIZER APPARATUS | FELTON, MICHAEL J | 9d |
| 18244816 | VAPORIZATION DEVICE SYSTEMS AND METHODS | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 33d |
| 18226557 | Cartridges for Vaporizer Devices | MARTIN, JOHN MITCHELL | 53d |
| 19028329 | VAPORIZER CONTROLS | SAVUSDIPHOL, PAULTEP | — |
| 18980398 | CARTRIDGE FOR VAPORIZER DEVICE | JOHNSON, CHRISTINA ANN | — |
| 18515788 | PUFF SENSING AND POWER CIRCUITRY FOR VAPORIZER DEVICES | DINH, PHUONG K | — |
| 17991476 | ONE-PIECE SHELL FOR VAPORIZER DEVICE | NGUYEN, SONNY V | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18244817 | Securely Attaching Cartridges for Vaporizer Devices | VAKILI, DANIEL EDWARD | 8d overdue |
| 18195320 | VAPORIZER APPARATUS | FELTON, MICHAEL J | 9d |
| 17736008 | VAPORIZER DEVICE | NGUYEN, SONNY V | 23d |
| 18244816 | VAPORIZATION DEVICE SYSTEMS AND METHODS | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 33d |
| 19028329 | VAPORIZER CONTROLS | SAVUSDIPHOL, PAULTEP | — |
| 19029856 | VAPORIZER POWER SYSTEM | RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O | — |
| 18161244 | Mass Output Controlled Vaporizer | EFTA, ALEX B | — |
| 17991476 | ONE-PIECE SHELL FOR VAPORIZER DEVICE | NGUYEN, SONNY V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1747 | 4 |
| 1755 | 3 |
| 2876 | 1 |
| 2838 | 1 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 2831 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19028329 | VAPORIZER CONTROLS | SAVUSDIPHOL, PAULTEP | 2876 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19029856 | VAPORIZER POWER SYSTEM | RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O | 2838 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18980398 | CARTRIDGE FOR VAPORIZER DEVICE | JOHNSON, CHRISTINA ANN | 1742 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18515788 | PUFF SENSING AND POWER CIRCUITRY FOR VAPORIZER DEVICES | DINH, PHUONG K | 2831 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18244816 | VAPORIZATION DEVICE SYSTEMS AND METHODS | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 1796 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
| 18244817 | Securely Attaching Cartridges for Vaporizer Devices | VAKILI, DANIEL EDWARD | 1747 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
| 18226557 | Cartridges for Vaporizer Devices | MARTIN, JOHN MITCHELL | 1755 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 53d | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 18195320 | VAPORIZER APPARATUS | FELTON, MICHAEL J | 1747 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
| 18161244 | Mass Output Controlled Vaporizer | EFTA, ALEX B | 1745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2023 |
| 18100434 | VAPORIZER DEVICE INCLUDING ADAPTIVE TEMPERATURE PROFILING | NGUYEN, PHU HOANG | 1747 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2023 |
| 17991476 | ONE-PIECE SHELL FOR VAPORIZER DEVICE | NGUYEN, SONNY V | 1755 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2022 |
| 17736008 | VAPORIZER DEVICE | NGUYEN, SONNY V | 1755 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | May 03, 2022 |
| 17725415 | Encased Battery Cell of a Vaporizer Device | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 1747 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Apr 20, 2022 |
| 17719014 | Vaporizer Device Microfluidic Systems and Apparatuses | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2022 |
| 17480050 | VAPORIZER DEVICES AND ACCESSORIES WITH INTEGRATED SENSORS | DYE, ROBERT C | 3619 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2021 |
| 15605890 | CONTROL OF AN ELECTRONIC VAPORIZER | WOLFF, ARIELLE R | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | May 25, 2017 |
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Start Free TrialJuul Labs Inc. has 16 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 11 art units and 15 examiners.
Sonny V Nguyen has the most, with 2 of Juul Labs Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
