Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
13 pending office actions • 7 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
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%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (46%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MULLER, BRYAN R | 2 | 43.8% | +30.9% |
| RASHID, FAZLE A | 1 | 55.8% | +48.4% |
| LEFF, STEVEN N | 1 | 41.3% | +7.9% |
| ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | 1 | 55.4% | +25.2% |
| OLIVA, STEPHANIE RENEE | 1 | 50.0% | +63.2% |
| STOUT, RILEY OWEN | 1 | 75.5% | -3.6% |
| ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 1 | 82.7% | +10.7% |
| CAIN, ZACHARY ANDREW | 1 | 75.0% | +50.0% |
| LEWIS-TAYLOR, DAYTON A. | 1 | 81.1% | +2.7% |
| VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN | 1 | 76.9% | +28.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 18215772 | METHOD OF OPERATING A FLOOR CLEANING DEVICE AND FLOOR CLEANING DEVICE | MULLER, BRYAN R | — |
| 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 8 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 | — |
| 18215772 | METHOD OF OPERATING A FLOOR CLEANING DEVICE AND FLOOR CLEANING DEVICE | MULLER, BRYAN R | — |
| 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 |
| 3723 | 2 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| 2181 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18673543 | Kitchen Appliance, Connecting Element and Method for Transmitting an Information Signal | RASHID, FAZLE A | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18538427 | Food Processor, Food Preparation Method, Computer Program Product and Storage Medium | LEFF, STEVEN N | 1792 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18529636 | KITCHEN APPLIANCE FOR HEATING FOODSTUFFS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | — | §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 |
| 18215772 | METHOD OF OPERATING A FLOOR CLEANING DEVICE AND FLOOR CLEANING DEVICE | MULLER, BRYAN R | 3723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 17714972 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A HEAT SUPPLY TO A PRODUCT TO BE COOKED | TRAN, THIEN S | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 215d overdue | Pending | Apr 06, 2022 |
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