Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Hefei Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co. Ltd.

4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (75%)
1
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (75%)
§112 only1 (25%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH 1 79.2% +13.1%
DELEON, DARIO ANTONIO 1 63.4% +33.4%
LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN 1 53.3% +60.0%
HINCAPIE SERNA, GUSTAVO A 1 59.0% +24.9%

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18688358 AIR CHANNEL ASSEMBLY AND AIR CONDITIONING DEVICE HAVING SAME HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH 163d overdue
18563910 WALL-MOUNTED AIR CONDITIONER LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN 9d overdue
18231243 Heat Exchanger, Electric Control Box and Air Conditioning System HINCAPIE SERNA, GUSTAVO A 27d
18578315 COMPRESSOR ASSEMBLY, AIR CONDITIONER OUTDOOR UNIT AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM DELEON, DARIO ANTONIO 33d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3763 2
3745 1
3762 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18688358 AIR CHANNEL ASSEMBLY AND AIR CONDITIONING DEVICE HAVING SAME HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH 3745 §103 Non-Final OA 163d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2024
18578315 COMPRESSOR ASSEMBLY, AIR CONDITIONER OUTDOOR UNIT AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM DELEON, DARIO ANTONIO 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jan 11, 2024
18563910 WALL-MOUNTED AIR CONDITIONER LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN 3762 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Nov 23, 2023
18231243 Heat Exchanger, Electric Control Box and Air Conditioning System HINCAPIE SERNA, GUSTAVO A 3763 §112 Final Rejection 27d Pending Aug 07, 2023

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