Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Qingdao Haier Biomedical Co. Ltd. maintains a portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each pending matter is being handled by a different examiner in a separate art unit, which may lead to different prosecution timelines for each application.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is NORMAN, MARC E, who is handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 2 pending office actions in total and 2 distinct examiners involved, the workload is split between the assigned staff. This suggests that the company's current prosecution efforts are spread across multiple technical groups at the USPTO. The use of 2 distinct art units further confirms a range of technical examination for the 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORMAN, MARC E | 1 | 84.0% | +10.8% |
| FOLLANSBEE, YVONNE TRANG | 1 | 53.7% | +28.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18560086 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REGULATING TEMPERATURE OF INCUBATOR, AND INCUBATOR | NORMAN, MARC E | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18560086 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REGULATING TEMPERATURE OF INCUBATOR, AND INCUBATOR | NORMAN, MARC E | — |
| 18550441 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR POWER ALLOCATION IN CARBON DIOXIDE INCUBATOR, AND CARBON DIOXIDE INCUBATOR | FOLLANSBEE, YVONNE TRANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18560086 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REGULATING TEMPERATURE OF INCUBATOR, AND INCUBATOR | NORMAN, MARC E | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 18550441 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR POWER ALLOCATION IN CARBON DIOXIDE INCUBATOR, AND CARBON DIOXIDE INCUBATOR | FOLLANSBEE, YVONNE TRANG | 1798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialQingdao Haier Biomedical Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Marc E Norman has the most, with 1 of Qingdao Haier Biomedical Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
