Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Spectrum Brands Inc. has 7 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 7 distinct examiners. The portfolio's current activity spans 5 distinct art units, indicating some overlap in the organizational groups reviewing the applications. This distribution suggests a diverse range of mechanical and medical innovations being pursued simultaneously.
NGUYEN, UYEN T is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. This examiner handles a portion of the 7 total pending office actions. The presence of multiple distinct examiners means that every pending matter is being reviewed by a different person. The 5 distinct art units suggest that the company's innovations in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering are being evaluated across several specialized divisions. This variety requires the company to manage multiple prosecution tracks with different examiners, though the concentration in the art units provides some organizational consistency. Practitioners must be prepared to address the unique concerns of different examiners while maintaining a cohesive strategy across the 5 art units involved.
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 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (71%) |
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 | 40.0% | +36.3% |
| WATTS, JENNA A | 1 | 48.6% | +53.9% |
| NGUYEN, SON T | 1 | 28.9% | +16.3% |
| GRAVINI, STEPHEN MICHAEL | 1 | 77.9% | +19.2% |
| GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES | 1 | 28.3% | +47.3% |
| NORTON, JOHN J | 1 | 67.5% | +28.5% |
| CHOU, JIMMY | 1 | 71.0% | +14.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 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 | — |
| 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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18999769 | HYBRID STEAMER IRON ASSEMBLY | NGUYEN, UYEN T | 29d |
| 18883476 | PET TREAT | WATTS, JENNA A | — |
| 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 | — |
| 17911579 | MODULAR MULTI-COOKER | NORTON, JOHN J | — |
| 17635061 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL SLOW COOKER WITH TEMPERATURE CONTROL FEATURES | CHOU, JIMMY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| 3643 | 1 |
| 3772 | 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 |
| 18883476 | PET TREAT | WATTS, JENNA A | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 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 | — | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18166710 | ANGLE DEFLECTION TYPE TWISTED HAIR STYLING DEVICE | GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES | 3772 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 09, 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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