Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sanhua (Hangzhou) Micro Channel Heat Exchanger Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This indicates a level of technical diversity in the company's current patent applications.
HARRY E ARANT is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. With 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the prosecution workload is split such that each examiner is responsible for one matter. No single individual manages a majority of the company's active cases. The 3 distinct examiners are spread across 2 distinct art units, which suggests some overlap in the technical classification of the pending actions.
Practitioners should observe that the 3 pending office actions are not centralized under one person. However, because there are 2 distinct art units for the 3 actions, at least two of the 3 distinct examiners are likely working within the same art unit. This could lead to some consistency in examination within that unit, even as HARRY E ARANT and the other examiners manage their individual 1 pending office action assignments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 1 | 47.2% | +12.7% |
| GAMINO, CARLOS J | 1 | 35.3% | +45.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17276019 | BRAZING METHOD OF CONNECTOR AND CONNECTION TUBE, CONNECTION STRUCTURE AND HEAT EXCHANGER | GAMINO, CARLOS J | 29d |
| 17764816 | MULTI-CHANNEL HEAT EXCHANGER AND AIR CONDITIONING REFRIGERATION SYSTEM | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 70d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17276019 | BRAZING METHOD OF CONNECTOR AND CONNECTION TUBE, CONNECTION STRUCTURE AND HEAT EXCHANGER | GAMINO, CARLOS J | 29d |
| 17764816 | MULTI-CHANNEL HEAT EXCHANGER AND AIR CONDITIONING REFRIGERATION SYSTEM | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 70d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17764816 | MULTI-CHANNEL HEAT EXCHANGER AND AIR CONDITIONING REFRIGERATION SYSTEM | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Mar 29, 2022 |
| 17276019 | BRAZING METHOD OF CONNECTOR AND CONNECTION TUBE, CONNECTION STRUCTURE AND HEAT EXCHANGER | GAMINO, CARLOS J | 1735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Mar 12, 2021 |
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