Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Spectrum Brands Inc. currently manages 7 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 7 distinct examiners. The prosecution spans 7 distinct art units, reflecting the technical distribution of the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings. This distribution across 7 distinct art units indicates that the company's active matters are subject to the specific standards of those assigned art units at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is NGUYEN, UYEN T, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This count of 1 pending office action for the busiest examiner is part of the total 7 pending office actions. With 7 distinct examiners involved, practitioners managing this portfolio must coordinate across individual examiner preferences. The fact that NGUYEN, UYEN T handles this workload highlights the distribution of the current prosecution pipeline. This requires a strategy that accounts for the requirements of the 7 distinct examiners across the 7 distinct art units.
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 (25%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (62%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, UYEN T | 1 | 40.3% | +37.1% |
| NGUYEN, SON T | 1 | 28.9% | +16.3% |
| GRAVINI, STEPHEN MICHAEL | 1 | 78.0% | +19.2% |
| HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | 1 | 41.1% | +49.4% |
| GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES | 1 | 28.3% | +47.1% |
| WOODHOUSE, SARAH ANN | 1 | 29.3% | +65.0% |
| NORTON, JOHN J | 1 | 67.5% | +28.3% |
| CHOU, JIMMY | 1 | 71.2% | +14.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18999769 | HYBRID STEAMER IRON ASSEMBLY | NGUYEN, UYEN T | 29d |
| 18668756 | TOOTHED PET GROOMING TOOL WITH FUR EJECTING MECHANISM | NGUYEN, SON T | — |
| 18537070 | AIR-MOVING APPLIANCE INCLUDING AN ATTACHMENT | GRAVINI, STEPHEN MICHAEL | — |
| 18166710 | ANGLE DEFLECTION TYPE TWISTED HAIR STYLING DEVICE | GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES | — |
| 18161412 | COMBINATION HAIR STYLING APPARATUS WITH POSITIONABLE HEATING PLATE COVERS | WOODHOUSE, SARAH ANN | — |
| 17911579 | MODULAR MULTI-COOKER | NORTON, JOHN J | — |
| 17635061 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL SLOW COOKER WITH TEMPERATURE CONTROL FEATURES | CHOU, JIMMY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18999769 | HYBRID STEAMER IRON ASSEMBLY | NGUYEN, UYEN T | 29d |
| 18668756 | TOOTHED PET GROOMING TOOL WITH FUR EJECTING MECHANISM | NGUYEN, SON T | — |
| 18537070 | AIR-MOVING APPLIANCE INCLUDING AN ATTACHMENT | GRAVINI, STEPHEN MICHAEL | — |
| 18141899 | DIFFUSER ATTACHMENT FOR AIR-MOVING APPLIANCE | HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | — |
| 18166710 | ANGLE DEFLECTION TYPE TWISTED HAIR STYLING DEVICE | GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES | — |
| 18161412 | COMBINATION HAIR STYLING APPARATUS WITH POSITIONABLE HEATING PLATE COVERS | WOODHOUSE, SARAH ANN | — |
| 17911579 | MODULAR MULTI-COOKER | NORTON, JOHN J | — |
| 17635061 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL SLOW COOKER WITH TEMPERATURE CONTROL FEATURES | CHOU, JIMMY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 3 |
| 3732 | 1 |
| 3643 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18999769 | HYBRID STEAMER IRON ASSEMBLY | NGUYEN, UYEN T | 3732 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18668756 | TOOTHED PET GROOMING TOOL WITH FUR EJECTING MECHANISM | NGUYEN, SON T | 3643 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18537070 | AIR-MOVING APPLIANCE INCLUDING AN ATTACHMENT | GRAVINI, STEPHEN MICHAEL | 3753 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18141899 | DIFFUSER ATTACHMENT FOR AIR-MOVING APPLIANCE | HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 01, 2023 |
| 18166710 | ANGLE DEFLECTION TYPE TWISTED HAIR STYLING DEVICE | GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES | 3772 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2023 |
| 18161412 | COMBINATION HAIR STYLING APPARATUS WITH POSITIONABLE HEATING PLATE COVERS | WOODHOUSE, SARAH ANN | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2023 |
| 17911579 | MODULAR MULTI-COOKER | NORTON, JOHN J | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2022 |
| 17635061 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL SLOW COOKER WITH TEMPERATURE CONTROL FEATURES | CHOU, JIMMY | 3700 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSpectrum Brands Inc. has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 8 examiners.
Uyen T Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Spectrum Brands Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
