Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lashify Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the pending work is concentrated within one technical unit and includes examiner overlap.
STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel should review those matters together for consistent claim treatment and arguments, while separately addressing the matter assigned to the other examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
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% |
| HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | 1 | 41.1% | +49.4% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18126908 | ARTIFICIAL LASH EXTENSIONS | HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | 12d |
| 18960266 | CASES FOR STORING LASH EXTENSIONS AND METHODS FOR USE AND MANUFACTURE THEREOF | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 55d |
| 18624073 | ELECTRIC APPLICATOR AND METHOD FOR RE-AFFIXING ARTIFICIAL LASH EXTENSIONS AND CURLING NATURAL LASHES AND ARTIFICIAL LASH EXTENSIONS ATTACHED TO NATURAL LASHES | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18960266 | CASES FOR STORING LASH EXTENSIONS AND METHODS FOR USE AND MANUFACTURE THEREOF | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 3772 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18624073 | ELECTRIC APPLICATOR AND METHOD FOR RE-AFFIXING ARTIFICIAL LASH EXTENSIONS AND CURLING NATURAL LASHES AND ARTIFICIAL LASH EXTENSIONS ATTACHED TO NATURAL LASHES | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 3772 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 18126908 | ARTIFICIAL LASH EXTENSIONS | HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Mar 27, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialLashify Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Rachel Running Steitz has the most, with 2 of Lashify Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
