Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hisense (Guangdong) Air Conditioning Co. Ltd. currently has 4 pending office actions. These actions are within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution is managed by 4 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit.
ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R is the busiest examiner for this company, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 action is part of the 4 pending office actions currently active. Since there are 4 distinct examiners, each one is handling 1 of the pending cases.
The use of 1 distinct art unit for all 4 pending office actions indicates that the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings are concentrated within a single administrative group. For a practitioner, this means that while 4 distinct examiners are involved, they likely follow the same art unit guidelines. ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R is 1 of the 4 examiners assigned to the portfolio.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 1 | 48.9% | +19.2% |
| SULLENS, TAVIA L | 1 | 50.0% | +46.6% |
| MYERS, KEITH STANLEY | 1 | 52.8% | +18.3% |
| MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | 1 | 78.8% | +20.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19182559 | MOBILE AIR CONDITIONER AND AIR DUCT FIXING PLATE | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | — |
| 19096224 | WINDOW AIR CONDITIONER | SULLENS, TAVIA L | — |
| 18811185 | DEHUMIDIFIER | MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19182559 | MOBILE AIR CONDITIONER AND AIR DUCT FIXING PLATE | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | — |
| 19096224 | WINDOW AIR CONDITIONER | SULLENS, TAVIA L | — |
| 18926298 | WINDOW AIR CONDITIONER | MYERS, KEITH STANLEY | — |
| 18811185 | DEHUMIDIFIER | MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19182559 | MOBILE AIR CONDITIONER AND AIR DUCT FIXING PLATE | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 19096224 | WINDOW AIR CONDITIONER | SULLENS, TAVIA L | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 18926298 | WINDOW AIR CONDITIONER | MYERS, KEITH STANLEY | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18811185 | DEHUMIDIFIER | MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
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