Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Miele & Cie. KG has 4 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, meaning examiner assignments are more dispersed than the underlying art-unit distribution.
MACHNESS, ARIELLA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate the shared technical portfolio while accounting for separate examiner practices and the possibility that multiple matters occupy one art-unit context.
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 | 1 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BACHNER, ROBERT G | 1 | 87.7% | +7.7% |
| MACHNESS, ARIELLA | 1 | 61.5% | +27.4% |
| CAMPBELL, THOR S | 1 | 75.1% | +1.0% |
| COHEN, BRIAN W | 1 | 54.8% | +47.8% |
| TAYLOR, AUSTIN PARKER | 1 | 42.2% | +27.7% |
| SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | 1 | 56.3% | +37.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18518474 | DOMESTIC APPLIANCE HAVING A MICROWAVE FUNCTION AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAID APPLIANCE | BACHNER, ROBERT G | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18267262 | HEATING DEVICE FOR HEATING WATER, AND WATER-CONDUCTING APPLIANCE COMPRISING A HEATING DEVICE | CAMPBELL, THOR S | 15d |
| 18265462 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A COOKING APPLIANCE, AND COOKING APPLIANCE | TAYLOR, AUSTIN PARKER | 27d |
| 18553220 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A COOKING APPLIANCE, AND COOKING APPLIANCE | MACHNESS, ARIELLA | — |
| 18178551 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY CORRELATING AT LEAST ONE COOKTOP UTENSIL WITH AT LEAST ONE COOKING ZONE OF AN INDUCTIVE COOKTOP, INDUCTIVE COOKTOP, COOKTOP UTENSIL AND SYSTEM FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD | SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18265462 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A COOKING APPLIANCE, AND COOKING APPLIANCE | TAYLOR, AUSTIN PARKER | 27d |
| 18553220 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A COOKING APPLIANCE, AND COOKING APPLIANCE | MACHNESS, ARIELLA | — |
| 18267048 | WATER-USING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A WATER-USING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE | COHEN, BRIAN W | — |
| 18178551 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY CORRELATING AT LEAST ONE COOKTOP UTENSIL WITH AT LEAST ONE COOKING ZONE OF AN INDUCTIVE COOKTOP, INDUCTIVE COOKTOP, COOKTOP UTENSIL AND SYSTEM FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD | SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 2 |
| 2898 | 1 |
| 1743 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18518474 | DOMESTIC APPLIANCE HAVING A MICROWAVE FUNCTION AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAID APPLIANCE | BACHNER, ROBERT G | 2898 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 23, 2023 |
| 18553220 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A COOKING APPLIANCE, AND COOKING APPLIANCE | MACHNESS, ARIELLA | 1743 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18267262 | HEATING DEVICE FOR HEATING WATER, AND WATER-CONDUCTING APPLIANCE COMPRISING A HEATING DEVICE | CAMPBELL, THOR S | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18267048 | WATER-USING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A WATER-USING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE | COHEN, BRIAN W | 1759 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 18265462 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A COOKING APPLIANCE, AND COOKING APPLIANCE | TAYLOR, AUSTIN PARKER | 1792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
| 18178551 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY CORRELATING AT LEAST ONE COOKTOP UTENSIL WITH AT LEAST ONE COOKING ZONE OF AN INDUCTIVE COOKTOP, INDUCTIVE COOKTOP, COOKTOP UTENSIL AND SYSTEM FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD | SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | 3761 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMiele & Cie. KG has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Robert G Bachner has the most, with 1 of Miele & Cie. KG's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
