Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kohler (China) Investment Co. Ltd. has 9 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 8 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, indicating some examiner recurrence and broader activity across a limited set of technical groups.
ROS, NICHOLAS A is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel should examine those matters for consistent positions while maintaining separate analysis for the remaining examiner assignments. Art-unit coordination is also relevant because the portfolio spans 5 distinct units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 (22%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROS, NICHOLAS A | 2 | 52.5% | +34.2% |
| WILLIAMS, PATRICK C | 1 | 80.7% | +25.2% |
| GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | 1 | 66.8% | +33.8% |
| HANES JR., JOHN | 1 | 47.6% | +38.8% |
| HESCHEL, SUSAN MARIE | 1 | 77.0% | +17.8% |
| LOEPPKE, JANIE MEREDITH | 1 | 55.4% | +28.9% |
| SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 1 | 78.5% | +21.0% |
| NGUYEN, TUAN N | 1 | 68.1% | +26.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18993832 | WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USE | WILLIAMS, PATRICK C | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18735875 | INTERCHANGABLE FAUCET DESIGN ASSEMBLY | LOEPPKE, JANIE MEREDITH | 17d overdue |
| 18812444 | PANEL STRUCTURE FOR A HIDDEN WATER TANK | HESCHEL, SUSAN MARIE | 7d |
| 18584677 | WATER PIPE ADAPTER, A TANK ASSEMBLY, AND A TOILET APPARATUS | NGUYEN, TUAN N | 56d |
| 19016636 | INTEGRATED ROTARY SPRAYER | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | — |
| 18951494 | PANEL ASSEMBLY | HANES JR., JOHN | — |
| 18946072 | WATERWAY SWITCHING ASSEMBLY, TOILET WATER SUPPLY DEVICE, AND FLUSHING METHOD FOR THE TOILET WATER SUPPLY DEVICE | ROS, NICHOLAS A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18735875 | INTERCHANGABLE FAUCET DESIGN ASSEMBLY | LOEPPKE, JANIE MEREDITH | 17d overdue |
| 18812444 | PANEL STRUCTURE FOR A HIDDEN WATER TANK | HESCHEL, SUSAN MARIE | 7d |
| 18674364 | DRAIN STRUCTURE AND URINAL | SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 12d |
| 18584677 | WATER PIPE ADAPTER, A TANK ASSEMBLY, AND A TOILET APPARATUS | NGUYEN, TUAN N | 56d |
| 18993832 | WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USE | WILLIAMS, PATRICK C | — |
| 19016636 | INTEGRATED ROTARY SPRAYER | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | — |
| 18951494 | PANEL ASSEMBLY | HANES JR., JOHN | — |
| 18946072 | WATERWAY SWITCHING ASSEMBLY, TOILET WATER SUPPLY DEVICE, AND FLUSHING METHOD FOR THE TOILET WATER SUPPLY DEVICE | ROS, NICHOLAS A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 4 |
| 3753 | 2 |
| 3752 | 1 |
| 3634 | 1 |
| 3637 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18993832 | WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USE | WILLIAMS, PATRICK C | 3753 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 19016636 | INTEGRATED ROTARY SPRAYER | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | 3752 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18951494 | PANEL ASSEMBLY | HANES JR., JOHN | 3634 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18946072 | WATERWAY SWITCHING ASSEMBLY, TOILET WATER SUPPLY DEVICE, AND FLUSHING METHOD FOR THE TOILET WATER SUPPLY DEVICE | ROS, NICHOLAS A | 3754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18940274 | BIDET, TOILET COVER PLATE, AND INTELLIGENT TOILET | ROS, NICHOLAS A | 3754 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18812444 | PANEL STRUCTURE FOR A HIDDEN WATER TANK | HESCHEL, SUSAN MARIE | 3637 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18735875 | INTERCHANGABLE FAUCET DESIGN ASSEMBLY | LOEPPKE, JANIE MEREDITH | 3754 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18674364 | DRAIN STRUCTURE AND URINAL | SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18584677 | WATER PIPE ADAPTER, A TANK ASSEMBLY, AND A TOILET APPARATUS | NGUYEN, TUAN N | 3754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialKohler (China) Investment Co. Ltd. has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 8 examiners.
Nicholas A Ros has the most, with 2 of Kohler (China) Investment Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
