Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 6 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hefei Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co. Ltd. has 12 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 11 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, showing broad examiner distribution across a smaller set of art-unit assignments. TEITELBAUM, DAVID J is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters.
The examiner spread calls for detailed docket and response coordination, while the art-unit grouping may allow counsel to identify shared examination practices. TEITELBAUM, DAVID J handles 2 pending matters, making that examiner a useful point for focused review, but the portfolio remains distributed among the other examiners. Consistent technical positions should be maintained across the six art-unit contexts.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (58%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TEITELBAUM, DAVID J | 2 | 68.6% | +24.2% |
| VUJCIC, NATASHA | 1 | 90.3% | +5.0% |
| SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | 1 | 80.3% | +15.2% |
| SEMBER, THOMAS M | 1 | 84.4% | +11.5% |
| PHAN, AN BACH | 1 | 75.0% | +50.0% |
| MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | 1 | 78.8% | +20.7% |
| TIGHE, DANA K | 1 | 75.8% | +16.8% |
| SCHULT, ALLEN | 1 | 68.0% | +30.9% |
| ALVARE, PAUL | 1 | 57.6% | +36.8% |
| LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | 1 | 59.3% | +57.6% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35527448 | Outdoor unit of heat pump | VUJCIC, NATASHA | — |
| 18890152 | AIR CONDITIONER OUTDOOR UNIT AND AIR CONDITIONER | SEMBER, THOMAS M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18563910 | WALL-MOUNTED AIR CONDITIONER | LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | 9d overdue |
| 18848929 | COUPLER, AIR CONDITIONER INDOOR UNIT, AND AIR CONDITIONER | SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | — |
| 18848720 | ELECTRONIC CONTROL COMPONENT, AIR-CONDITIONING OUTDOOR UNIT AND AIR CONDITIONER | TEITELBAUM, DAVID J | — |
| 18890119 | AIR CONDITIONER OUTDOOR UNIT AND AIR CONDITIONER | TEITELBAUM, DAVID J | — |
| 18888119 | AIR CONDITIONER OUTDOOR UNIT AND AIR CONDITIONER | MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | — |
| 18610125 | Air Conditioner Indoor Unit | SCHULT, ALLEN | — |
| 18563969 | DRAIN PAN AND AIR CONDITIONER | ALVARE, PAUL | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18563910 | WALL-MOUNTED AIR CONDITIONER | LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | 9d overdue |
| 18848929 | COUPLER, AIR CONDITIONER INDOOR UNIT, AND AIR CONDITIONER | SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | — |
| 18848720 | ELECTRONIC CONTROL COMPONENT, AIR-CONDITIONING OUTDOOR UNIT AND AIR CONDITIONER | TEITELBAUM, DAVID J | — |
| 18890152 | AIR CONDITIONER OUTDOOR UNIT AND AIR CONDITIONER | SEMBER, THOMAS M | — |
| 18890119 | AIR CONDITIONER OUTDOOR UNIT AND AIR CONDITIONER | TEITELBAUM, DAVID J | — |
| 18889349 | AIR SUPPLY ASSEMBLY, AIR CONDITIONER OUTDOOR UNIT AND AIR CONDITIONER | PHAN, AN BACH | — |
| 18888119 | AIR CONDITIONER OUTDOOR UNIT AND AIR CONDITIONER | MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | — |
| 18671361 | WATER PAN AND INDOOR UNIT | TIGHE, DANA K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 6 |
| 3762 | 2 |
| 2951 | 1 |
| 3678 | 1 |
| 2875 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35527448 | Outdoor unit of heat pump | VUJCIC, NATASHA | 2951 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2024 |
| 18848929 | COUPLER, AIR CONDITIONER INDOOR UNIT, AND AIR CONDITIONER | SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | 3678 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18848720 | ELECTRONIC CONTROL COMPONENT, AIR-CONDITIONING OUTDOOR UNIT AND AIR CONDITIONER | TEITELBAUM, DAVID J | 3763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18890152 | AIR CONDITIONER OUTDOOR UNIT AND AIR CONDITIONER | SEMBER, THOMAS M | 2875 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18890119 | AIR CONDITIONER OUTDOOR UNIT AND AIR CONDITIONER | TEITELBAUM, DAVID J | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18889349 | AIR SUPPLY ASSEMBLY, AIR CONDITIONER OUTDOOR UNIT AND AIR CONDITIONER | PHAN, AN BACH | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18888119 | AIR CONDITIONER OUTDOOR UNIT AND AIR CONDITIONER | MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | 3763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 18671361 | WATER PAN AND INDOOR UNIT | TIGHE, DANA K | 3763 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18610125 | Air Conditioner Indoor Unit | SCHULT, ALLEN | 3762 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18563969 | DRAIN PAN AND AIR CONDITIONER | ALVARE, PAUL | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 24, 2023 |
| 18563910 | WALL-MOUNTED AIR CONDITIONER | LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | 3762 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Nov 23, 2023 |
| 17992807 | Pipeline Connection Structure, Compressor Assembly, and Air Conditioner | RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | 3679 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialHefei Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co. Ltd. has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 11 examiners.
David J Teitelbaum has the most, with 2 of Hefei Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
