Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 61 patents granted in the last 365 days
Max Co., Ltd. has 9 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The portfolio spans 7 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, showing moderate distribution with some repeated assignments.
ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S is the busiest identified examiner, with 3 pending matters. That cluster supports examiner-focused preparation and review of recurring issues, while the other matters require separate analysis based on their assignments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRUONG, KATELYN T | 1 | 56.4% | +38.8% |
| NGUYEN, JIMMY T | 1 | 76.4% | +23.6% |
| GUGGER, SEAN A | 1 | 64.9% | +23.2% |
| ISSA, JUEVARA SAOOD | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| WEEKS, GLORIA R | 1 | 70.4% | +12.4% |
| OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | 1 | 47.1% | +64.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19448495 | STAPLE | TRUONG, KATELYN T | — |
| 18741351 | MOTOR AND BINDING MACHINE | GUGGER, SEAN A | — |
| 18647683 | BINDING MACHINE | ISSA, JUEVARA SAOOD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18042657 | SOLID HAIR DETERGENT COMPOSITION | OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | 80d overdue |
| 19448495 | STAPLE | TRUONG, KATELYN T | — |
| 19144813 | Reinforcing Bar Binding Robot | NGUYEN, JIMMY T | — |
| 18741351 | MOTOR AND BINDING MACHINE | GUGGER, SEAN A | — |
| 18133924 | FASTENING TOOL | WEEKS, GLORIA R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 2 |
| 3647 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19448495 | STAPLE | TRUONG, KATELYN T | 3647 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2026 |
| 19144813 | Reinforcing Bar Binding Robot | NGUYEN, JIMMY T | 3725 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 18741351 | MOTOR AND BINDING MACHINE | GUGGER, SEAN A | 2834 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18647683 | BINDING MACHINE | ISSA, JUEVARA SAOOD | 3725 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18133924 | FASTENING TOOL | WEEKS, GLORIA R | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
| 18042657 | SOLID HAIR DETERGENT COMPOSITION | OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | 1619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 80d overdue | Pending | Feb 23, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMax Co., Ltd. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Katelyn T Truong has the most, with 1 of Max Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
