Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited

Technology area: Chemistry & Materials

30 pending office actions • 9 art units • 22 examiners • 0 of 30 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 89 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited has 30 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The portfolio spans 24 examiners and 10 art units, creating substantial coordination demands across both individual examination records and recurring technical groups.

DIYAN, OLUWATOSIN OLUWATUMININ is the busiest examiner, with 4 pending matters. This is the clearest examiner concentration in the supplied profile, making that examiner’s prosecution history especially useful for coordinated review without replacing matter-specific analysis.

The 10-art-unit spread supports centralized classification of claim issues, cited art, and amendment themes. Counsel should also preserve clear ownership for the many records handled outside the busiest examiner relationship.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

30
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
13
Final Rejections
4
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
1
Due this week
4
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
2
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

16
Hard (53%)
13
Medium (43%)
1
Easy (3%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (30%)
§102 only3 (10%)
§112 only1 (3%)
Double-patenting + other1 (3%)
Multi-statute (no §101)16 (53%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

23
Life Sciences
77% of docket
1
Information Tech
3% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
20% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

300 h
Manual time on pending OAs
60 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
105 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DIYAN, OLUWATOSIN OLUWATUMININ 4 27.3% +54.2%
CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER 3 27.8% +4.3%
DELACRUZ, MADELEINE PAULINA 2 63.1% +40.7%
MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK 2 54.8% +54.6%
LE, TOBEY CHOU 2 27.8% +51.9%
KASENGE, CHARLES R 1 83.9% +13.9%
WILL, KATHERINE A 1 67.4% +20.1%
NNABUGWU, HANNAH CHINWE 1 80.0% +0.0%
JORDAN, RONNIE KIRBY 1 68.3% +17.2%
MACEDA, KRYSTENE NHE BANDONG 1 33.3% +100.0%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19024292 ATOMIZATION APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD AND ATOMIZATION APPARATUS KASENGE, CHARLES R —

Hard Cases (23)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18155101 HEATING BODY AND AEROSOL-GENERATION DEVICE SPARKS, RUSSELL E 58d overdue
18349852 AEROSOL DOSE TESTING DEVICE, AEROSOL-GENERATING DEVICE, AND HEATING CONTROL METHOD THEREOF WOODWARD, VALERIE LYNN 22d overdue
17699438 BAKED ITEM, METHOD FOR PREPARING BAKED ITEM, AND MICROWAVE HEATING METHOD FOR BAKED ITEM CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER 5d
18349886 HEATING ASSEMBLY AND HEATING AND VAPORIZATION DEVICE TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN 12d
18343422 ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE, VAPORIZER, AND VAPORIZATION ASSEMBLY MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK 14d
18470784 VAPORIZER AND ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK 15d
18500276 HIDDEN PATTERNED STRUCTURE AND ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE RUMMEL, JULIA L 34d
18087995 VAPORIZATION DEVICE AND DIVERGING VAPORIZATION MODULE CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER 71d

Interview Candidates (14)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18343422 ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE, VAPORIZER, AND VAPORIZATION ASSEMBLY MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK 14d
18470784 VAPORIZER AND ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK 15d
17933605 ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE AND VAPORIZER THEREOF LE, TOBEY CHOU 71d
19024292 ATOMIZATION APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD AND ATOMIZATION APPARATUS KASENGE, CHARLES R —
18774982 ATOMIZER, HOUSING THEREFOR AND ELECTRONIC ATOMIZING APPARATUS WILL, KATHERINE A —
18665847 ATOMIZATION CORE, ATOMIZER AND AEROSOL GENERATION APPARATUS JORDAN, RONNIE KIRBY —
18598395 ELECTRONIC ATOMIZATION DEVICE AND POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS THEREOF DELACRUZ, MADELEINE PAULINA —
18594635 ELECTRONIC ATOMIZATION DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR MACEDA, KRYSTENE NHE BANDONG —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1747 10
1755 8
3761 4
1700 3
2116 1
1784 1
3619 1
1745 1
3785 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19024292 ATOMIZATION APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD AND ATOMIZATION APPARATUS KASENGE, CHARLES R 2116 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 16, 2025
18774982 ATOMIZER, HOUSING THEREFOR AND ELECTRONIC ATOMIZING APPARATUS WILL, KATHERINE A 1747 §103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 17, 2024
18758827 ELECTRONIC ATOMIZATION DEVICE AND ATOMIZER THEREOF NNABUGWU, HANNAH CHINWE 1747 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 28, 2024
18665847 ATOMIZATION CORE, ATOMIZER AND AEROSOL GENERATION APPARATUS JORDAN, RONNIE KIRBY 1747 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 16, 2024
18598395 ELECTRONIC ATOMIZATION DEVICE AND POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS THEREOF DELACRUZ, MADELEINE PAULINA 1755 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 07, 2024
18594635 ELECTRONIC ATOMIZATION DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR MACEDA, KRYSTENE NHE BANDONG 3761 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 04, 2024
18431021 ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE, AND VAPORIZER AND VAPORIZATION ASSEMBLY THEREOF KHLOK, BONITA 3761 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 02, 2024
18500276 HIDDEN PATTERNED STRUCTURE AND ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE RUMMEL, JULIA L 1784 §103§112 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Nov 02, 2023
18471904 ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE, POWER SUPPLY ASSEMBLY, AND HOLDER ASSEMBLY FELTON, MICHAEL J 1747 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 21, 2023
18470784 VAPORIZER AND ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK 1747 §102§103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Sep 20, 2023
18462683 ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION SYSTEM AND LIQUID INJECTION DEVICE DYE, ROBERT C 3619 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Sep 07, 2023
18448157 VAPORIZER AND ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE NORTON, JOHN J 3761 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 10, 2023
18357072 CERAMIC SUBSTRATE, CERAMIC HEATING BODY, AND ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE EFTA, ALEX B 1745 §112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jul 21, 2023
18351441 VAPORIZATION ASSEMBLY, VAPORIZER, AND ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE LE, TOBEY CHOU 1700 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 12, 2023
18350689 VAPORIZER AND ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION APPARATUS DIYAN, OLUWATOSIN OLUWATUMININ 1755 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 11, 2023
18349852 AEROSOL DOSE TESTING DEVICE, AEROSOL-GENERATING DEVICE, AND HEATING CONTROL METHOD THEREOF WOODWARD, VALERIE LYNN 3785 §103§112 Final Rejection 22d overdue Pending Jul 10, 2023
18349886 HEATING ASSEMBLY AND HEATING AND VAPORIZATION DEVICE TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN 3761 §102§103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Jul 10, 2023
18343422 ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE, VAPORIZER, AND VAPORIZATION ASSEMBLY MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK 1747 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jun 28, 2023
18328276 HEATING ELEMENT, VAPORIZER, AND ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE DELACRUZ, MADELEINE PAULINA 1755 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 02, 2023
18188340 VAPORIZATION CORE, VAPORIZER, AND ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE UTECH, BENJAMIN L 1700 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 22, 2023
18174024 ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY 1700 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 24, 2023
18173318 ELECTRONIC ATOMIZING DEVICE DIYAN, OLUWATOSIN OLUWATUMININ 1755 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 23, 2023
18164687 ATOMIZATION HEATING CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE, AEROSOL GENERATING DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM DIYAN, OLUWATOSIN OLUWATUMININ 1755 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 06, 2023
18155101 HEATING BODY AND AEROSOL-GENERATION DEVICE SPARKS, RUSSELL E 1755 §103§112 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2023
18087995 VAPORIZATION DEVICE AND DIVERGING VAPORIZATION MODULE CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER 1747 §102 Final Rejection 71d Pending Dec 23, 2022
17985741 HEATING ASSEMBLY AND HEATING ATOMIZATION APPARATUS CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER 1747 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 11, 2022
17934022 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING VAPORIZER, VAPORIZER, AND ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE DIYAN, OLUWATOSIN OLUWATUMININ 1755 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 21, 2022
17933605 ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE AND VAPORIZER THEREOF LE, TOBEY CHOU 1747 §102§103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Sep 20, 2022
17730689 HEATING BODY AND ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE PHAM, VU PHI 1755 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 27, 2022
17699438 BAKED ITEM, METHOD FOR PREPARING BAKED ITEM, AND MICROWAVE HEATING METHOD FOR BAKED ITEM CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER 1747 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Mar 21, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited have?

Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited has 30 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 22 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited applications?

Oluwatosin Oluwatuminin Diyan has the most, with 4 of Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited's pending office actions.

What technology area are Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited's patent applications in?

Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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