Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shanghai Kohler Electronics Ltd. manages a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently has 5 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that there is some concentration of the workload among a few examiners and technical departments within the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is BAKER, LORI LYNN, who is handling 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. This examiner is responsible for 2 of the company's 5 current pending actions. The use of 3 distinct art units for 5 actions suggests that multiple applications are being processed within the same technical units. For a practitioner, this means they can focus their strategy on the preferences of a smaller group of examiners, particularly Lori Lynn Baker. The overlap in art units may also allow for a more consistent approach to prosecution across different applications within the medical and mechanical engineering fields. This concentration can be leveraged to streamline responses and predict examiner behavior more effectively.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| §102 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAKER, LORI LYNN | 2 | 78.6% | +6.6% |
| LE, MINH Q | 1 | 80.7% | +16.3% |
| PREVIL, DANIEL | 1 | 85.8% | +12.5% |
| SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J | 1 | 61.9% | +20.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19216929 | WATERWAY INSTALLATION STRUCTURE IN A TOILET | LE, MINH Q | — |
| 19082735 | LIQUID DISPENSER SENSING DISTANCE SELF-LEARNING METHOD, AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND A STORAGE MEDIUM | PREVIL, DANIEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18622508 | FLUSHING ASSEMBLY, WATER SUPPLY ASSEMBLY, LOWER POSITION WATER SUCTION ASSEMBLY, WATER TANK, CHECK VALVE FOR USE IN A TOILET, AND METHOD, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR CONTROLLING TOILET WATER CONSUMPTION | SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19216929 | WATERWAY INSTALLATION STRUCTURE IN A TOILET | LE, MINH Q | — |
| 19082735 | LIQUID DISPENSER SENSING DISTANCE SELF-LEARNING METHOD, AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND A STORAGE MEDIUM | PREVIL, DANIEL | — |
| 18622508 | FLUSHING ASSEMBLY, WATER SUPPLY ASSEMBLY, LOWER POSITION WATER SUCTION ASSEMBLY, WATER TANK, CHECK VALVE FOR USE IN A TOILET, AND METHOD, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR CONTROLLING TOILET WATER CONSUMPTION | SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 3 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19216929 | WATERWAY INSTALLATION STRUCTURE IN A TOILET | LE, MINH Q | 3753 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19082735 | LIQUID DISPENSER SENSING DISTANCE SELF-LEARNING METHOD, AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND A STORAGE MEDIUM | PREVIL, DANIEL | 2685 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 18747858 | SEAT, SEAT DEVICE, WATER PIPE, SHAFT SLEEVE STRUCTURE, SEAT REAR BASE, SEAT STRUCTURE, AND TOILET | BAKER, LORI LYNN | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
| 18734572 | SEAT RING, CLEANING ASSEMBLY, TOILET, AND CONTROL METHOD OF TOILET | BAKER, LORI LYNN | 3754 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18622508 | FLUSHING ASSEMBLY, WATER SUPPLY ASSEMBLY, LOWER POSITION WATER SUCTION ASSEMBLY, WATER TANK, CHECK VALVE FOR USE IN A TOILET, AND METHOD, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR CONTROLLING TOILET WATER CONSUMPTION | SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J | 3754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialShanghai Kohler Electronics Ltd. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Lori Lynn Baker has the most, with 2 of Shanghai Kohler Electronics Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
