3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Guangdong Woodsun Housewares Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions currently assigned to 1 distinct examiner. These 3 pending office actions are all located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a concentration of the company's matters under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. With 3 pending office actions and only 1 distinct examiner, the company's pending portfolio is subject to the review of that individual. This structure means that the procedural and technical feedback for the 3 actions will be provided by the same person.
SOUTHWOOD, YEN LE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 3 pending office actions. Since there are 3 pending office actions in total, this examiner handles the pending office actions for the company. The presence of 1 distinct art unit further emphasizes the technical path for these applications. Practitioners should focus on building a consistent rapport with SOUTHWOOD, YEN LE, as their decisions will affect the 3 pending matters. The 1 distinct art unit involved suggests that the company's housewares innovations fall into a specific technical category at the USPTO. This lack of examiner diversity requires a focused strategy for the 3 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTHWOOD, YEN LE | 3 | 97.7% | +2.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35526996 | Lid for drinking vessels | SOUTHWOOD, YEN LE | — |
| 35525220 | Handle of drinking vessel lid | SOUTHWOOD, YEN LE | — |
| 35525180 | Handle of drinking vessel lid | SOUTHWOOD, YEN LE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2922 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35526996 | Lid for drinking vessels | SOUTHWOOD, YEN LE | 2922 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2025 |
| 35525220 | Handle of drinking vessel lid | SOUTHWOOD, YEN LE | 2922 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 35525180 | Handle of drinking vessel lid | SOUTHWOOD, YEN LE | 2922 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialGuangdong Woodsun Housewares Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Yen Le Southwood has the most, with 3 of Guangdong Woodsun Housewares Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
