Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
13 pending office actions • 10 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH has 14 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 12 distinct examiners across 10 distinct art units. The profile shows broad examiner coverage with some repetition in both examiner and technical assignments.
ACHEN ZIMMERMAN, CHRISTINE M is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That repeated assignment may support focused review of examiner-specific practices, but it represents only part of the portfolio. Counsel should combine coordinated analysis of related mechanical-device issues with separate preparation for the other examination settings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 4 (31%) |
| §112 only | 3 (23%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACHEN ZIMMERMAN, CHRISTINE M | 2 | 93.3% | +7.7% |
| RASHID, FAZLE A | 1 | 55.5% | +48.9% |
| ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | 1 | 55.6% | +25.3% |
| OLIVA, STEPHANIE RENEE | 1 | 44.4% | +68.2% |
| LEFF, STEVEN N | 1 | 41.4% | +8.4% |
| STOUT, RILEY OWEN | 1 | 75.5% | -3.6% |
| ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 1 | 82.8% | +10.4% |
| LEWIS-TAYLOR, DAYTON A. | 1 | 81.1% | +2.8% |
| CAIN, ZACHARY ANDREW | 1 | 73.5% | +50.0% |
| VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN | 1 | 74.7% | +27.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18117732 | Kitchen Appliance, Accessory for a Kitchen Appliance, System and Method for Operating a Kitchen Appliance | LEWIS-TAYLOR, DAYTON A. | 63d |
| 35526837 | Accessory for food processors | ACHEN ZIMMERMAN, CHRISTINE M | — |
| 35526879 | Accessory for food processors | ACHEN ZIMMERMAN, CHRISTINE M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17890331 | METHOD OF OPERATING A BASE STATION FOR A CLEANING DEVICE | MULLER, BRYAN R | 126d overdue |
| 18124524 | FOOD PREPARATION APPARATUS WITH PROTECTION DEVICE AGAINST OVERHEATING | ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 15d |
| 18673543 | Kitchen Appliance, Connecting Element and Method for Transmitting an Information Signal | RASHID, FAZLE A | — |
| 18529636 | KITCHEN APPLIANCE FOR HEATING FOODSTUFFS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | — |
| 18238583 | JUICING MODULE FOR A PREPARATION VESSEL, KITCHEN APPLIANCE AND GEAR UNIT | OLIVA, STEPHANIE RENEE | — |
| 17940074 | CLEANING DEVICE AND CLEANING SYSTEM | VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18124524 | FOOD PREPARATION APPARATUS WITH PROTECTION DEVICE AGAINST OVERHEATING | ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 15d |
| 18673543 | Kitchen Appliance, Connecting Element and Method for Transmitting an Information Signal | RASHID, FAZLE A | — |
| 18529636 | KITCHEN APPLIANCE FOR HEATING FOODSTUFFS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | — |
| 18238583 | JUICING MODULE FOR A PREPARATION VESSEL, KITCHEN APPLIANCE AND GEAR UNIT | OLIVA, STEPHANIE RENEE | — |
| 18117688 | Kitchen Appliance System, Method of Controlling a Kitchen Appliance System and Control for a Kitchen Appliance System | CAIN, ZACHARY ANDREW | — |
| 17940074 | CLEANING DEVICE AND CLEANING SYSTEM | VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 4 |
| 2951 | 1 |
| 2922 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 2181 | 1 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35526837 | Accessory for food processors | ACHEN ZIMMERMAN, CHRISTINE M | 2951 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 |
| 35526879 | Accessory for food processors | ACHEN ZIMMERMAN, CHRISTINE M | 2922 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 |
| 18673543 | Kitchen Appliance, Connecting Element and Method for Transmitting an Information Signal | RASHID, FAZLE A | 1748 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18529636 | KITCHEN APPLIANCE FOR HEATING FOODSTUFFS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18238583 | JUICING MODULE FOR A PREPARATION VESSEL, KITCHEN APPLIANCE AND GEAR UNIT | OLIVA, STEPHANIE RENEE | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
| 18364874 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECIPE DEPENDENT CLEANING OF COOKING APPLIANCES | LEFF, STEVEN N | 1792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18209570 | ELECTRIC MOTOR, KITCHEN MACHINE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | STOUT, RILEY OWEN | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18124524 | FOOD PREPARATION APPARATUS WITH PROTECTION DEVICE AGAINST OVERHEATING | ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 3761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Mar 21, 2023 |
| 18117732 | Kitchen Appliance, Accessory for a Kitchen Appliance, System and Method for Operating a Kitchen Appliance | LEWIS-TAYLOR, DAYTON A. | 2181 | §103 | Final Rejection | 63d | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
| 18117688 | Kitchen Appliance System, Method of Controlling a Kitchen Appliance System and Control for a Kitchen Appliance System | CAIN, ZACHARY ANDREW | 2116 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
| 17940074 | CLEANING DEVICE AND CLEANING SYSTEM | VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN | 3665 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2022 |
| 17890331 | METHOD OF OPERATING A BASE STATION FOR A CLEANING DEVICE | MULLER, BRYAN R | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 126d overdue | Pending | Aug 18, 2022 |
| 17888537 | KITCHEN APPLIANCE BASE, PREPARATION MODULE AND KITCHEN APPLIANCE | LEE JR, WOODY A | 3761 | §112 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Aug 16, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialVorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH has 13 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 10 art units and 12 examiners.
Christine M Achen Zimmerman has the most, with 2 of Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
