Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. has 7 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners but only 2 distinct art units, indicating repeated art-unit placement alongside broader examiner distribution.
CHEN, KUANGYUE is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending actions. The repeated art-unit context may support a coordinated review of device claim language and recurring examination issues. At the same time, the examiner distribution requires separate response planning and docket control for matters outside that assignment.
Counsel should compare the office-action records for consistent treatment of shared mechanical or device concepts, without assuming that an argument effective before one examiner will transfer unchanged to another.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, KUANGYUE | 2 | 63.2% | +45.4% |
| SANDERS, JAMES M | 1 | 55.0% | +27.1% |
| THONG, YEONG JUEN | 1 | 48.8% | +53.9% |
| EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 1 | 62.7% | +21.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17640227 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OVER ICE BREWING | EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 45d overdue |
| 18033438 | LIQUID SUPPLY TANK SENSING ARRANGEMENT FOR BEVERAGE MACHINE | THONG, YEONG JUEN | — |
| 18033456 | BEVERAGE MACHINE WITH NON-ISOLATED POWER SUPPLY FOR LIQUID CONTACTING COMPONENTS | CHEN, KUANGYUE | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17640227 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OVER ICE BREWING | EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 45d overdue |
| 18651877 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A COMPOSTABLE BREWABLE BEVERAGE POD | SANDERS, JAMES M | — |
| 18033438 | LIQUID SUPPLY TANK SENSING ARRANGEMENT FOR BEVERAGE MACHINE | THONG, YEONG JUEN | — |
| 18033456 | BEVERAGE MACHINE WITH NON-ISOLATED POWER SUPPLY FOR LIQUID CONTACTING COMPONENTS | CHEN, KUANGYUE | — |
| 17884617 | BEVERAGE PREPARATION MACHINE ARRANGED TO SHARE CAPSULE IMAGE AND MACHINE OPERATION DATA | CHEN, KUANGYUE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 4 |
| 1743 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18651877 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A COMPOSTABLE BREWABLE BEVERAGE POD | SANDERS, JAMES M | 1743 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18033438 | LIQUID SUPPLY TANK SENSING ARRANGEMENT FOR BEVERAGE MACHINE | THONG, YEONG JUEN | 3761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2023 |
| 18033456 | BEVERAGE MACHINE WITH NON-ISOLATED POWER SUPPLY FOR LIQUID CONTACTING COMPONENTS | CHEN, KUANGYUE | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2023 |
| 17884617 | BEVERAGE PREPARATION MACHINE ARRANGED TO SHARE CAPSULE IMAGE AND MACHINE OPERATION DATA | CHEN, KUANGYUE | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2022 |
| 17640227 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OVER ICE BREWING | EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Mar 03, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialKeurig Dr Pepper Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Kuangyue Chen has the most, with 2 of Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
