Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Foshan Shunde Midea Electrical Heating Appliances Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has 7 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Those matters involve 6 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, so the portfolio is distributed across multiple examination contacts while remaining within a defined technical area.
LEFF, STEVEN N is the busiest examiner, handling 2 pending matters. The remaining examination activity is spread among the other examiners, which makes coordinated docket review important. Counsel should track examiner-specific issues separately while looking for recurring claim-construction or prior-art themes across the art-unit assignments.
The presence of 2 art units may require different response tactics for related technologies. A consolidated internal review can preserve consistent positions, while examiner-specific amendments and arguments can address the individual records.
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 | 5 (71%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEFF, STEVEN N | 2 | 41.4% | +8.4% |
| KHLOK, BONITA | 1 | 48.8% | +47.2% |
| WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 1 | 42.9% | +40.4% |
| MANSINGH, GARGI | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| NGUYEN, PHUONG T | 1 | 74.0% | +36.7% |
| CHAMBERS, JOHN MICHAEL | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18549917 | LID ASSEMBLY AND COOKING APPARATUS | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | — |
| 18263701 | LID BODY ASSEMBLY AND COOKING APPARATUS | MANSINGH, GARGI | — |
| 18205271 | INTEGRATED COOKER, INTEGRATED COOKER CONTROL METHOD AND INTEGRATED COOKER CONTROL DEVICE | CHAMBERS, JOHN MICHAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18259586 | ELECTROMAGNETIC HEATING DEVICE, NOISE SUPPRESSION METHOD, HEATING CONTROL SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, PHUONG T | 71d |
| 18577671 | COOKING APPLIANCE | KHLOK, BONITA | — |
| 18549917 | LID ASSEMBLY AND COOKING APPARATUS | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 5 |
| 1792 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18918927 | COOKING CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | LEFF, STEVEN N | 1792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18577671 | COOKING APPLIANCE | KHLOK, BONITA | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2024 |
| 18405596 | METHOD FOR COOKING, STORAGE MEDIUM, COOKING DEVICE, AND COOKING APPLIANCE | LEFF, STEVEN N | 1792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 18549917 | LID ASSEMBLY AND COOKING APPARATUS | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 3761 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2023 |
| 18263701 | LID BODY ASSEMBLY AND COOKING APPARATUS | MANSINGH, GARGI | 3761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2023 |
| 18259586 | ELECTROMAGNETIC HEATING DEVICE, NOISE SUPPRESSION METHOD, HEATING CONTROL SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, PHUONG T | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
| 18205271 | INTEGRATED COOKER, INTEGRATED COOKER CONTROL METHOD AND INTEGRATED COOKER CONTROL DEVICE | CHAMBERS, JOHN MICHAEL | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialFoshan Shunde Midea Electrical Heating Appliances Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 6 examiners.
Steven N Leff has the most, with 2 of Foshan Shunde Midea Electrical Heating Appliances Manufacturing Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
