Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Snowie LLC currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a diversified prosecution landscape for the company. This distribution suggests that the company is pursuing multiple distinct mechanical innovations simultaneously. For a practitioner, this variety is beneficial as it prevents the entire portfolio's progress from being dependent on a single examiner's perspective or the specific practices of one art unit. This diversification provides a broader base for the company's intellectual property strategy.
GRUBY, RANDALL A is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This represents one of the 2 pending office actions total, while the remaining action is managed by the other of the 2 distinct examiners involved. This balanced distribution of the 2 pending office actions across different examiners and art units suggests a diversified approach to securing intellectual property. Each action can be managed independently, allowing the company to tailor its prosecution tactics to the specific requirements and feedback of each individual examiner and art unit involved in the review process.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRUBY, RANDALL A | 1 | 62.4% | +43.2% |
| LUK, EMMANUEL S | 1 | 71.5% | +26.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18412433 | SWING ARM DISPENSER ASSEMBLY FOR USE WITH AN EDIFICE | GRUBY, RANDALL A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18394917 | FOOD-GRADE SHAPER AND CONTAINER FOR FROZEN CONFECTIONS | LUK, EMMANUEL S | 8d overdue |
| 18412433 | SWING ARM DISPENSER ASSEMBLY FOR USE WITH AN EDIFICE | GRUBY, RANDALL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18412433 | SWING ARM DISPENSER ASSEMBLY FOR USE WITH AN EDIFICE | GRUBY, RANDALL A | 3754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18394917 | FOOD-GRADE SHAPER AND CONTAINER FOR FROZEN CONFECTIONS | LUK, EMMANUEL S | 1744 | DP | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSnowie LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Randall A Gruby has the most, with 1 of Snowie LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
