Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kiss Nail Products Inc. has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that the portfolio is concentrated into a small number of technical groups with repeated examiner assignments.
STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending actions. That examiner assignment is a significant focal point for docket review, while the two-art-unit structure supports coordinated analysis of claim scope and recurring objections.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 2 | 54.4% | +26.1% |
| TO, HOLLY T | 1 | 47.5% | +33.4% |
| CARROLL, JEREMY W | 1 | 75.0% | +12.0% |
| ROSEN, ERIC J | 1 | 41.3% | +22.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18939274 | READY-TO-USE EYELASH EXTENSIONS | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 58d overdue |
| 17956538 | HAIRSTYLING APPARATUSES AND RELATED METHODS | ROSEN, ERIC J | 43d |
| 19194969 | READY-TO-USE EYELASH EXTENSIONS | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18939274 | READY-TO-USE EYELASH EXTENSIONS | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 58d overdue |
| 18546395 | HAIR COLOR CONTAINER WITH MIXING FEATURES | CARROLL, JEREMY W | 21d |
| 17956538 | HAIRSTYLING APPARATUSES AND RELATED METHODS | ROSEN, ERIC J | 43d |
| 19194969 | READY-TO-USE EYELASH EXTENSIONS | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | — |
| 18817200 | APPLICATOR FOR ARTIFICIAL EYELASH EXTENSION SYSTEMS | TO, HOLLY T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 4 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19194969 | READY-TO-USE EYELASH EXTENSIONS | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 3772 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 18939274 | READY-TO-USE EYELASH EXTENSIONS | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 3772 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 58d overdue | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18817200 | APPLICATOR FOR ARTIFICIAL EYELASH EXTENSION SYSTEMS | TO, HOLLY T | 3772 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18546395 | HAIR COLOR CONTAINER WITH MIXING FEATURES | CARROLL, JEREMY W | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
| 17956538 | HAIRSTYLING APPARATUSES AND RELATED METHODS | ROSEN, ERIC J | 3772 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 43d | Pending | Sep 29, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialKiss Nail Products Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Rachel Running Steitz has the most, with 2 of Kiss Nail Products Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
