Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Gd Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co. Ltd.

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (75%)
§102 only1 (25%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
25% of docket
1
Information Tech
25% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
25% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
25% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CARTER, AMY ELIZABETH 1 82.0% +27.8%
PATEL, JIGNESHKUMAR C 1 79.1% +21.3%
LE, JOHN H 1 87.9% +7.4%
BUI, DUNG H 1 78.5% +24.7%

Quick Wins (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18387804 Method for Harmonic Detection and Apparatus, Frequency Converter, and Storage Medium LE, JOHN H 14d
18564012 AIR CONDITIONER CARTER, AMY ELIZABETH 15d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17992847 OIL SEPARATOR AND OUTDOOR UNIT FOR AIR CONDITIONER BUI, DUNG H 112d overdue
18564029 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AIR CONDITIONER, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM PATEL, JIGNESHKUMAR C 30d overdue
18564012 AIR CONDITIONER CARTER, AMY ELIZABETH 15d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3762 1
2116 1
2857 1
1773 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18564012 AIR CONDITIONER CARTER, AMY ELIZABETH 3762 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Nov 24, 2023
18564029 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AIR CONDITIONER, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM PATEL, JIGNESHKUMAR C 2116 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Nov 24, 2023
18387804 Method for Harmonic Detection and Apparatus, Frequency Converter, and Storage Medium LE, JOHN H 2857 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 07, 2023
17992847 OIL SEPARATOR AND OUTDOOR UNIT FOR AIR CONDITIONER BUI, DUNG H 1773 §103 Non-Final OA 112d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2022

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