Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 4 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Miele & Cie. KG maintains a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio is highly active, with 10 pending office actions currently on record. These 10 pending office actions are distributed among 9 distinct examiners, which indicates a decentralized prosecution strategy. The work is spread across 4 distinct art units, showing that the company's chemical innovations are classified in multiple technical areas.
BELL, SPENCER E is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. With 9 distinct examiners handling the 10 pending office actions, most examiners are managing only one case. The involvement of 4 distinct art units suggests a broad technological footprint within the Chemistry & Materials sector, requiring the management of various departmental standards.
Practitioners should note that the prosecution involves 9 distinct examiners, requiring the coordination of many different examiner styles. The 2 busiest examiner pending office actions under BELL, SPENCER E represent the highest concentration of work for any single individual. The 4 distinct art units indicate that the portfolio's legal challenges are not confined to a single department, providing some diversification of risk.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (70%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELL, SPENCER E | 2 | 63.3% | +12.6% |
| BACHNER, ROBERT G | 1 | 87.6% | +7.8% |
| MACHNESS, ARIELLA | 1 | 61.9% | +28.5% |
| CAMPBELL, THOR S | 1 | 75.0% | +1.0% |
| COHEN, BRIAN W | 1 | 54.8% | +47.6% |
| NGUYEN, VY T | 1 | 71.8% | +35.5% |
| TAYLOR, AUSTIN PARKER | 1 | 42.9% | +27.5% |
| SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | 1 | 56.3% | +37.7% |
| WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 1 | 51.7% | +25.3% |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18684697 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CARRYING OUT A CLEANING PROCESS FOR A CLEANING APPLIANCE, AND CLEANING APPLIANCE | BELL, SPENCER E | 37d overdue |
| 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 |
| 18256644 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A COOKING APPLIANCE, AND COOKING APPLIANCE | NGUYEN, VY T | 42d |
| 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 | — |
| 17798320 | COOKING SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD | WARD, THOMAS JOHN | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18267258 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A WATER-CONDUCTING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE AND WATER-CONDUCTING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE | BELL, SPENCER E | 72d overdue |
| 18684697 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CARRYING OUT A CLEANING PROCESS FOR A CLEANING APPLIANCE, AND CLEANING APPLIANCE | BELL, SPENCER E | 37d overdue |
| 18265462 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A COOKING APPLIANCE, AND COOKING APPLIANCE | TAYLOR, AUSTIN PARKER | 27d |
| 18256644 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A COOKING APPLIANCE, AND COOKING APPLIANCE | NGUYEN, VY T | 42d |
| 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 | — |
| 17798320 | COOKING SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD | WARD, THOMAS JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 4 |
| 1711 | 2 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18684697 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CARRYING OUT A CLEANING PROCESS FOR A CLEANING APPLIANCE, AND CLEANING APPLIANCE | BELL, SPENCER E | 1711 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | Feb 19, 2024 |
| 18518474 | DOMESTIC APPLIANCE HAVING A MICROWAVE FUNCTION AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAID APPLIANCE | BACHNER, ROBERT G | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 23, 2023 |
| 18553220 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A COOKING APPLIANCE, AND COOKING APPLIANCE | MACHNESS, ARIELLA | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18267258 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A WATER-CONDUCTING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE AND WATER-CONDUCTING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE | BELL, SPENCER E | 1711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 72d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 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 |
| 18256644 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A COOKING APPLIANCE, AND COOKING APPLIANCE | NGUYEN, VY T | 3761 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
| 18265462 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A COOKING APPLIANCE, AND COOKING APPLIANCE | TAYLOR, AUSTIN PARKER | 1792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 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 |
| 17798320 | COOKING SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD | WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2022 |
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