Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Guangdong Midea Kitchen Appliances Manufacturing Co. Ltd. is managing 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, though they are split between 2 distinct examiners. This concentration within a single art unit suggests a very specific technical focus for the company's current chemical and material-related applications.
The busiest examiner, LEFF, STEVEN N, is responsible for 3 pending actions, which represents a significant portion of the portfolio's current workload. This high concentration, where 3 of the 4 pending office actions are with a single examiner, suggests that the company's success in this technology area is heavily influenced by a single individual's examination style. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the preferences of this busiest examiner, as their decisions will impact most of the pending workload. The remaining action is handled by another examiner, requiring a slightly diversified but still highly focused prosecution strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, JACOB A | 1 | 81.9% | +17.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18291908 | CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL DEVICE OF COOKING APPLIANCE AND COOKING APPLIANCE | SMITH, JACOB 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18291908 | CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL DEVICE OF COOKING APPLIANCE AND COOKING APPLIANCE | SMITH, JACOB A | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18291908 | CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL DEVICE OF COOKING APPLIANCE AND COOKING APPLIANCE | SMITH, JACOB A | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
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