Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gd Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co. Ltd. is currently managing 4 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, meaning no examiner is handling more than one case. The pending matters span 3 distinct art units, indicating a relatively broad technical footprint within the semiconductor and optics sectors. MANUEL A RIVERA VARGAS is the busiest examiner for the company, though they are only responsible for 1 pending office action.
This spread requires the applicant to adapt to the specific preferences and styles of multiple different examiners simultaneously. For a practitioner, the distribution across 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units suggests that the company is pursuing several different technical improvements that do not overlap heavily in the examination process. This decentralized structure minimizes the risk that a single difficult examiner could stall the entire portfolio. However, it also increases the administrative complexity of managing the 4 pending office actions. Success in this portfolio will depend on the ability to provide consistent technical arguments while addressing the specific concerns of each individual examiner across the various art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A | 1 | 81.0% | +12.1% |
| NYAMOGO, JOSEPH A | 1 | 67.1% | +28.5% |
| CARTER, AMY ELIZABETH | 1 | 79.2% | +33.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18564012 | AIR CONDITIONER | CARTER, AMY ELIZABETH | 15d |
| 18557572 | METHOD FOR PERFORMANCE PARAMETER RECORDING AND APPARATUS, FREQUENCY INVERTER, AIR CONDITIONER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18564012 | AIR CONDITIONER | CARTER, AMY ELIZABETH | 15d |
| 18557572 | METHOD FOR PERFORMANCE PARAMETER RECORDING AND APPARATUS, FREQUENCY INVERTER, AIR CONDITIONER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A | — |
| 18292025 | AIR CONDITIONING UNIT, AND REMOTE DEBUGGING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF | NYAMOGO, JOSEPH A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18557572 | METHOD FOR PERFORMANCE PARAMETER RECORDING AND APPARATUS, FREQUENCY INVERTER, AIR CONDITIONER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A | 2857 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18292025 | AIR CONDITIONING UNIT, AND REMOTE DEBUGGING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF | NYAMOGO, JOSEPH A | 2858 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
| 18564012 | AIR CONDITIONER | CARTER, AMY ELIZABETH | 3762 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Nov 24, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialGd Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Manuel A Rivera Vargas has the most, with 1 of Gd Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
