Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Guangdong Zosun Electrical Appliance Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The portfolio currently reflects a singular focus within the patent office. Practitioners should note that the company's current prosecution activity is entirely contained within this 1 technical classification, which may simplify the management of its intellectual property assets.
EMMANUEL E DUKE is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. This single action represents the entirety of the company's 1 pending workload. Prosecution is currently centralized under this 1 examiner and 1 art unit. This allows for a direct line of communication with the patent office, as there are no other pending matters to coordinate across different examiners. The outcome of this specific office action is critical for the company's standing in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector, as it is the only active matter in the current portfolio. The concentration in 1 art unit suggests a highly specialized technical focus for the pending application.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUKE, EMMANUEL E | 1 | 68.7% | +27.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19021219 | SEALING CONNECTION DEVICE FOR REFRIGERATING ASSEMBLY OF SLUSH MACHINE AND SLUSH MACHINE | DUKE, EMMANUEL E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19021219 | SEALING CONNECTION DEVICE FOR REFRIGERATING ASSEMBLY OF SLUSH MACHINE AND SLUSH MACHINE | DUKE, EMMANUEL E | 3763 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
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