Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 3 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 91 patents granted in the last 365 days
Yeti Coolers LLC operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with a total of 9 pending office actions. These 9 pending office actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the number of pending actions is higher than the number of 3 distinct art units involved in the prosecution process. The company interacts with 8 distinct examiners to manage these filings.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is TAMIL, JESSICA KAVINI, who is currently handling 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. These 2 busiest examiner pending office actions are a subset of the total pending office actions currently active for the company. The 8 distinct examiners assigned to the portfolio are more numerous than the 3 distinct art units where the cases are being reviewed. This indicates that many art units contain multiple examiners working on the company's matters.
Practitioners should note that TAMIL, JESSICA KAVINI manages 2 busiest examiner pending office actions, while the other actions are spread among the other distinct examiners. The Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area serves as the primary classification for this work. With 8 distinct examiners, the portfolio shows engagement with the patent office staff across the various art units identified in the data.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 4 (44%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (11%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (22%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (22%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAMIL, JESSICA KAVINI | 2 | 39.0% | +46.7% |
| VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 1 | 66.7% | +18.9% |
| NOUKETCHA, LIONEL W | 1 | 80.8% | +13.7% |
| NGUYEN, CHI Q | 1 | 82.4% | +12.4% |
| HELVEY, PETER N. | 1 | 54.6% | +19.1% |
| MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 1 | 52.9% | +28.0% |
| NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 1 | 30.2% | +39.8% |
| NORTON, JOHN J | 1 | 67.5% | +28.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19170117 | Portable Cooler | NOUKETCHA, LIONEL W | — |
| 18968822 | Portable Chair | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19227723 | Modular Storage System | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | — |
| 18389025 | CONTAINER AND FRENCH PRESS AND METHODS ASSOCIATED THEREWITH | NORTON, JOHN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18821704 | Luggage System | TAMIL, JESSICA KAVINI | 31d overdue |
| 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 | — |
| 18968822 | Portable Chair | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
| 18663182 | Insulating Device Backpack | HELVEY, PETER N. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 3 |
| 3734 | 2 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19227723 | Modular Storage System | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 3733 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 |
| 19170117 | Portable Cooler | NOUKETCHA, LIONEL W | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 18968822 | Portable Chair | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18821704 | Luggage System | TAMIL, JESSICA KAVINI | 3733 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18663182 | Insulating Device Backpack | HELVEY, PETER N. | 3734 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 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 |
| 18389025 | CONTAINER AND FRENCH PRESS AND METHODS ASSOCIATED THEREWITH | NORTON, JOHN J | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18127578 | Bag with Luggage Pass-Through | TAMIL, JESSICA KAVINI | 3733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
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