Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Smeg S P A has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, creating a separate examination path for each action.
MA, KUN KAI is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can use a consolidated docket review to maintain consistent technical positions, but the available profile supports matter-specific response planning rather than an examiner-centered strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MA, KUN KAI | 1 | 79.5% | +12.8% |
| PHAM, RICKY NGOC | 1 | 97.5% | +2.6% |
| CLARK-RASHEED, COURTNEY JANELLE | 1 | 95.6% | +4.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35524756 | Oven | CLARK-RASHEED, COURTNEY JANELLE | 34d |
| 35527031 | Electric grill | PHAM, RICKY NGOC | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19177911 | REFRIGERATOR WITH AUTOMATIC LIGHTING AND METHOD TO CONTROL THE AUTOMATIC LIGHTING OF A REFRIGERATOR | MA, KUN KAI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| 2951 | 1 |
| 2921 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19177911 | REFRIGERATOR WITH AUTOMATIC LIGHTING AND METHOD TO CONTROL THE AUTOMATIC LIGHTING OF A REFRIGERATOR | MA, KUN KAI | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
| 35527031 | Electric grill | PHAM, RICKY NGOC | 2951 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 35524756 | Oven | CLARK-RASHEED, COURTNEY JANELLE | 2921 | §112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSmeg S P A has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Kun Kai Ma has the most, with 1 of Smeg S P A's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
