Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kenwood Limited currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, which indicates that each application is being reviewed by a different individual. The portfolio is located within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a focused technical review process for the company's current patent efforts.
The examiner TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN is responsible for 1 pending office action. As one of the 2 distinct examiners involved, this individual handles a portion of the company's current workload. Practitioners should tailor their prosecution strategy to the specific preferences of each examiner while maintaining a consistent technical approach within the 1 distinct art unit.
The distribution of 2 pending office actions within a single art unit allows the legal team to focus on a specific set of procedural standards. Because there are 2 distinct examiners, the company must manage two different examination styles. Success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area depends on meeting the requirements of the assigned art unit and the 1 action assigned to TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | 1 | 42.9% | +50.1% |
| ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 1 | 82.8% | +10.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18016505 | FOOD PROCESSING APPLIANCE AND FASCIA THEREFOR | ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 50d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19540982 | Apparatus For Providing A Brewed Beverage | TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18016505 | FOOD PROCESSING APPLIANCE AND FASCIA THEREFOR | ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 50d |
| 19540982 | Apparatus For Providing A Brewed Beverage | TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19540982 | Apparatus For Providing A Brewed Beverage | TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | 3761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2026 |
| 18016505 | FOOD PROCESSING APPLIANCE AND FASCIA THEREFOR | ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 3761 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 50d | Pending | Jan 17, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialKenwood Limited has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Thao Uyen Tran-Le has the most, with 1 of Kenwood Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
