Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dongguan Bidisco Electric Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to WOODHOUSE, SARAH ANN, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending matter. The current prosecution is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's active workload is focused on a single technical matter within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
Because there is only 1 pending office action, the company's immediate results depend entirely on this single application. WOODHOUSE, SARAH ANN is the sole distinct examiner for the portfolio, and the work is confined to 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests a specialized technical scope for the 1 pending office action. The prosecution strategy is centralized, as WOODHOUSE, SARAH ANN oversees the only active matter for Dongguan Bidisco Electric Co. Ltd. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of that 1 distinct art unit when addressing the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOODHOUSE, SARAH ANN | 1 | 29.3% | +65.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18514668 | HAIR CURLER | WOODHOUSE, SARAH ANN | 44d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18514668 | HAIR CURLER | WOODHOUSE, SARAH ANN | 44d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18514668 | HAIR CURLER | WOODHOUSE, SARAH ANN | 3772 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialDongguan Bidisco Electric Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sarah Ann Woodhouse has the most, with 1 of Dongguan Bidisco Electric Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
