Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Guangdong Midea Kitchen Appliances Manufacturing Co. Ltd. currently has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. All of these matters are assigned to 1 distinct examiner, indicating a high concentration of prosecution before a specific official. This centralization can lead to highly consistent results across the portfolio, as the examiner becomes familiar with the company's underlying technology and claim language. Such a strategy allows the company to streamline its responses and potentially reach an allowance more quickly by addressing the examiner's specific concerns in a unified manner.
The portfolio is currently active in 1 distinct art unit, which further reinforces the technical focus of the pending applications. LEFF, STEVEN N, is the busiest examiner, overseeing 3 pending office actions for the company. Practitioners should focus on this examiner's specific requirements and past decisions to effectively navigate the remaining applications. Understanding the examiner's preferred arguments and common rejection types within this art unit will be crucial for the successful prosecution of the company's current intellectual property assets.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEFF, STEVEN N | 3 | 41.4% | +8.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18293318 | COOKING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | LEFF, STEVEN N | 18d overdue |
| 18291924 | COOKING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | LEFF, STEVEN N | 17d overdue |
| 18293774 | COOKING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | LEFF, STEVEN N | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18293774 | COOKING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | LEFF, STEVEN N | 1792 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18293318 | COOKING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | LEFF, STEVEN N | 1792 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18291924 | COOKING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | LEFF, STEVEN N | 1792 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialGuangdong Midea Kitchen Appliances Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Steven N Leff has the most, with 3 of Guangdong Midea Kitchen Appliances Manufacturing Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
