Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Simplehuman LLC has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are distributed among 4 examiners and 4 art units, showing complete separation at both levels.
MELARAGNO, MICHAEL is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Application-specific review is the appropriate focus for this docket.
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 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | 1 | 67.5% | +11.6% |
| THOMAS, KAREEN KAY | 1 | 77.1% | +17.1% |
| CRESPO FEBLES, HECTOR J | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| LUO, DAVID S | 1 | 90.5% | +6.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18991187 | VOICE-ACTIVATED VANITY MIRROR | CRESPO FEBLES, HECTOR J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18765742 | ULTRASONIC SENSING TRASH CAN | LUO, DAVID S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19348613 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSIBLY POSITIONED SANITIZING MATERIALS | MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | — |
| 19078023 | RECEPTACLE ASSEMBLIES WITH USER ASSIST | THOMAS, KAREEN KAY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 2657 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19348613 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSIBLY POSITIONED SANITIZING MATERIALS | MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | 3754 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2025 |
| 19078023 | RECEPTACLE ASSEMBLIES WITH USER ASSIST | THOMAS, KAREEN KAY | 3736 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 18991187 | VOICE-ACTIVATED VANITY MIRROR | CRESPO FEBLES, HECTOR J | 2657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18765742 | ULTRASONIC SENSING TRASH CAN | LUO, DAVID S | 2837 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSimplehuman LLC has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Michael Melaragno has the most, with 1 of Simplehuman LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
