Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Quanzhou Komoo Intelligent Kitchen & Bath Co. Ltd. currently faces 5 pending office actions. These actions are situated in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's prosecution involves 4 distinct examiners, which is fewer than the total number of pending actions, indicating examiner overlap.
All 5 pending office actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while 4 distinct examiners are involved, the subject matter remains specialized within a single administrative division. DEERY, ERIN LEAH is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, overseeing 2 busiest examiner pending actions.
The 2 busiest examiner pending actions assigned to DEERY, ERIN LEAH represent the highest concentration of work for any single examiner in this set. The remaining pending actions are distributed among the other 4 distinct examiners. This structure requires the company to manage relationships with multiple individuals while adhering to the specific practices of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEERY, ERIN LEAH | 2 | 58.3% | +49.1% |
| BAKER, LORI LYNN | 1 | 78.5% | +6.6% |
| ROS, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 52.6% | +34.7% |
| NGUYEN, TUAN N | 1 | 68.1% | +26.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18730961 | SEWAGE DISCHARGE BOX, SEWAGE DISCHARGE SYSTEM AND TOILET | NGUYEN, TUAN N | 22d |
| 18833143 | TOILET BODY AND TOILET | DEERY, ERIN LEAH | 33d |
| 18832114 | TOILET AND WASTE DISCHARGE BOX ASSEMBLY THEREOF | DEERY, ERIN LEAH | 79d |
| 18833183 | WALL-MOUNTED TOILET BRACKET AND WALL-MOUNTED TOILET SYSTEM | ROS, NICHOLAS A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18730961 | SEWAGE DISCHARGE BOX, SEWAGE DISCHARGE SYSTEM AND TOILET | NGUYEN, TUAN N | 22d |
| 18833143 | TOILET BODY AND TOILET | DEERY, ERIN LEAH | 33d |
| 18832114 | TOILET AND WASTE DISCHARGE BOX ASSEMBLY THEREOF | DEERY, ERIN LEAH | 79d |
| 18833183 | WALL-MOUNTED TOILET BRACKET AND WALL-MOUNTED TOILET SYSTEM | ROS, NICHOLAS A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19103589 | HYBRID DISTRIBUTION VALVE, TOILET FLUSHING SYSTEM AND TOILET | BAKER, LORI LYNN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 18833183 | WALL-MOUNTED TOILET BRACKET AND WALL-MOUNTED TOILET SYSTEM | ROS, NICHOLAS A | 3754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18833143 | TOILET BODY AND TOILET | DEERY, ERIN LEAH | 3754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18832114 | TOILET AND WASTE DISCHARGE BOX ASSEMBLY THEREOF | DEERY, ERIN LEAH | 3754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 79d | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18730961 | SEWAGE DISCHARGE BOX, SEWAGE DISCHARGE SYSTEM AND TOILET | NGUYEN, TUAN N | 3754 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
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