Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 94 patents granted in the last 365 days
Yeti Coolers LLC has 9 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 8 examiners across 6 art units, indicating broad examiner coverage with some repeated art-unit involvement.
NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That limited concentration can support targeted coordination, while the remaining docket calls for separate review of examiner expectations and technical issues.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 6 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 2 | 30.1% | +39.8% |
| CAMPBELL, THOR S | 1 | 75.1% | +1.0% |
| VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 1 | 66.7% | +19.0% |
| NOUKETCHA, LIONEL W | 1 | 81.0% | +13.4% |
| BRADEN, SHAWN M | 1 | 66.8% | +32.3% |
| MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 1 | 52.7% | +27.6% |
| KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 1 | 50.6% | +34.6% |
| TAMIL, JESSICA KAVINI | 1 | 39.4% | +46.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19170117 | Portable Cooler | NOUKETCHA, LIONEL W | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19227723 | Modular Storage System | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18640281 | CONTAINER WITH RESEALABLE CLOSURE | MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 8d overdue |
| 18127578 | Bag with Luggage Pass-Through | TAMIL, JESSICA KAVINI | 4d overdue |
| 18626006 | Container and Latching System | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 14d |
| 19227723 | Modular Storage System | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | — |
| 19170117 | Portable Cooler | NOUKETCHA, LIONEL W | — |
| 19013752 | CONTAINER AND LATCHING SYSTEM | BRADEN, SHAWN M | — |
| 18370587 | CONTAINER AND METHOD OF FORMING A CONTAINER | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | — |
| 17469363 | Container and Latching System | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 3 |
| 3735 | 2 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 3734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19443742 | Container and French Press and Methods Associated Therewith | CAMPBELL, THOR S | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2026 |
| 19227723 | Modular Storage System | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 3733 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 |
| 19170117 | Portable Cooler | NOUKETCHA, LIONEL W | 3763 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 19013752 | CONTAINER AND LATCHING SYSTEM | BRADEN, SHAWN M | 3736 | §102Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18640281 | CONTAINER WITH RESEALABLE CLOSURE | MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 3734 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18626006 | Container and Latching System | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 3735 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
| 18370587 | CONTAINER AND METHOD OF FORMING A CONTAINER | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 3733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
| 18127578 | Bag with Luggage Pass-Through | TAMIL, JESSICA KAVINI | 3733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 17469363 | Container and Latching System | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 3735 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialYETI Coolers LLC has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 8 examiners.
Blaine Girma Neway has the most, with 2 of YETI Coolers LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
