Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Yum Connect LLC has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 3 examiners and 3 art units, so each pending matter is associated with a distinct examination path.
MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The even distribution supports matter-specific prosecution planning rather than a strategy centered on recurring examiner issues.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | 1 | 81.8% | +10.3% |
| MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | 1 | 67.5% | +11.6% |
| CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 1 | 65.1% | +35.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19291525 | AUTOMATED BEVERAGE DISPENSER SYSTEM AND METHOD | MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18949848 | FRY PORTIONING BASKET | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 46d overdue |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18949848 | FRY PORTIONING BASKET | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 46d overdue |
| 19291525 | AUTOMATED BEVERAGE DISPENSER SYSTEM AND METHOD | MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | — |
| 19005012 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN AUTOMATED BEVERAGE DISPENSER | MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19291525 | AUTOMATED BEVERAGE DISPENSER SYSTEM AND METHOD | MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | 3753 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2025 |
| 19005012 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN AUTOMATED BEVERAGE DISPENSER | MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18949848 | FRY PORTIONING BASKET | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 3733 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialYum Connect LLC has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Timothy Lewis Maust has the most, with 1 of Yum Connect LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
