Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kona Ice Inc. currently has 1 pending office action. The technology area for this matter is Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. JEREMY W CARROLL is the busiest examiner, overseeing the 1 pending action.
The case is located in a unique distinct art unit. This singular focus means that the company's current patent prosecution is entirely dependent on the review of one examiner within one specific department at the USPTO. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the individual art unit to navigate the 1 pending matter effectively.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARROLL, JEREMY W | 1 | 75.0% | +12.0% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19185831 | LIQUID TOPPINGS DISPENSING SYSTEM | CARROLL, JEREMY W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19185831 | LIQUID TOPPINGS DISPENSING SYSTEM | CARROLL, JEREMY W | 3754 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialKona Ice Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jeremy W Carroll has the most, with 1 of Kona Ice Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
