Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kraus Usa Plumbing LLC is navigating 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct art units and 4 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests a concentrated set of technologies within the company's current mechanical filings, despite the variety of 4 individual examiners assigned to the cases. The focus on only 2 art units indicates that the company's current innovations fall into a relatively narrow technical range.
BAKER, LORI LYNN is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. Because each of the 4 pending actions is assigned to a different examiner, the company must manage 4 separate prosecution strategies. The concentration in 2 art units indicates significant overlap in technical classification, which may allow for some consistency in technical arguments across the different examiners. However, practitioners must still address the unique perspectives of 4 different individuals to successfully move the portfolio toward allowance.
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 (25%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAKER, LORI LYNN | 1 | 78.6% | +6.6% |
| HUYNH, BRYANT KHIEM | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| NGUYEN, TUAN N | 1 | 68.1% | +26.4% |
| BELL, SPENCER E | 1 | 63.0% | +13.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19035094 | SENSOR SOAP DISPENSER | HUYNH, BRYANT KHIEM | — |
| 19033606 | SCREEN FOR A HIDDEN DRAIN SINK | NGUYEN, TUAN N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19033606 | SCREEN FOR A HIDDEN DRAIN SINK | NGUYEN, TUAN N | — |
| 19034007 | VESSEL RINSING APPARATUS | BELL, SPENCER E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 3 |
| 1711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19075153 | SINKS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | BAKER, LORI LYNN | 3754 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19035094 | SENSOR SOAP DISPENSER | HUYNH, BRYANT KHIEM | 3754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 19033606 | SCREEN FOR A HIDDEN DRAIN SINK | NGUYEN, TUAN N | 3754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 19034007 | VESSEL RINSING APPARATUS | BELL, SPENCER E | 1711 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialKraus Usa Plumbing LLC has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Lori Lynn Baker has the most, with 1 of Kraus Usa Plumbing LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
