Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sunbeam Products Inc. manages 9 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 9 distinct examiners, indicating a unique examiner for every pending matter in the portfolio. While the examiners are diverse, the administrative oversight is more concentrated, with the 9 actions spread across 5 distinct art units.
This distribution suggests that while the specific reviewers vary, the subject matter falls into a relatively narrow set of technical classifications. Examiner ISSA, JUEVARA SAOOD is the busiest examiner for the company, though they are only handling 1 pending action. The broad distribution across 9 examiners may lead to varied prosecution experiences and timelines for the applicant, as no two pending actions are being reviewed by the same person.
The involvement of 5 distinct art units for 9 pending actions indicates that some art units are handling multiple applications, even if different examiners are assigned. This level of concentration at the art unit level can provide some consistency in the technical standards applied to the portfolio. However, the requirement to navigate 9 distinct examiners across these 5 units still necessitates a flexible strategy to account for individual examiner preferences.
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 | 5 (56%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (44%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISSA, JUEVARA SAOOD | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS | 1 | 25.0% | +0.0% |
| NGUYEN, PHUONG T | 1 | 74.0% | +36.7% |
| HEGEMIER, JON MICHAEL | 1 | — | — |
| RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 1 | 53.3% | +37.5% |
| VAN, QUANG T | 1 | 74.3% | +8.3% |
| INSLER, ELIZABETH | 1 | 67.1% | +25.0% |
| LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | 1 | 59.3% | +57.6% |
| MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19024614 | BLENDING BLADE | ISSA, JUEVARA SAOOD | — |
| 18864078 | PORTABLE ICE SHAVER SYSTEM FOR A PORTABLE DRINK MAKER SYSTEM | DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS | — |
| 18546962 | BLENDER WITH ISOLATED SOUND ENCLOSURE | INSLER, ELIZABETH | — |
| 17662779 | ADVANCED HEATING PAD | MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18194291 | GRILL PLATE FOR OVEN WITH SLIDE LOCKING FEATURES | LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | 8d |
| 18684705 | USB POWERED HEATING PAD | NGUYEN, PHUONG T | — |
| 18681903 | HANDHELD VACUUM MARINATOR DEVICE | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | — |
| 18546962 | BLENDER WITH ISOLATED SOUND ENCLOSURE | INSLER, ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 4 |
| 3725 | 2 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19024614 | BLENDING BLADE | ISSA, JUEVARA SAOOD | 3725 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18864078 | PORTABLE ICE SHAVER SYSTEM FOR A PORTABLE DRINK MAKER SYSTEM | DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS | 3725 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18684705 | USB POWERED HEATING PAD | NGUYEN, PHUONG T | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2024 |
| 18436080 | BLADE SHARPENING DEVICE | HEGEMIER, JON MICHAEL | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18681903 | HANDHELD VACUUM MARINATOR DEVICE | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18556696 | MULTI-FUNCTION ELECTRIC GRILL | VAN, QUANG T | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
| 18546962 | BLENDER WITH ISOLATED SOUND ENCLOSURE | INSLER, ELIZABETH | 1774 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 18194291 | GRILL PLATE FOR OVEN WITH SLIDE LOCKING FEATURES | LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | 3762 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 17662779 | ADVANCED HEATING PAD | MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH | 3761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 10, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSunbeam Products Inc. has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 9 examiners.
Juevara Saood Issa has the most, with 1 of Sunbeam Products Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
