Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tineco Intelligent Technology Co. Ltd. currently manages 6 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 6 distinct examiners, meaning every pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution requires the company to manage 6 unique examiner relationships simultaneously, which can lead to varied prosecution outcomes across the portfolio.
The portfolio spans 4 distinct art units, which is fewer than the 6 pending office actions. This ratio suggests that while the examiners are all different, some of the matters share technical classifications within the patent office. The busiest examiner is LEE, DOUGLAS, who is responsible for 1 pending office action.
With 6 distinct examiners involved, there is no concentration of workload under any single individual, as the busiest examiner only handles 1 pending action. This represents a small fraction of the total 6 pending office actions. Practitioners should expect a variety of examination approaches across the 4 distinct art units involved in these filings, as no single unit or examiner dominates the current pending queue.
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) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, DOUGLAS | 1 | 45.3% | +13.7% |
| MCCORMACK, JOHN PATRICK | 1 | 71.3% | +28.8% |
| CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 1 | 58.0% | +41.8% |
| ZAWORSKI, JONATHAN R | 1 | 52.4% | +26.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17640306 | CLEANING MACHINE, CLEANING DEVICE, CONTROL AND INFORMATION DISPLAY METHODS THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | ZAWORSKI, JONATHAN R | 27d |
| 17922298 | TRAY AND CLEANING APPARATUS SYSTEM | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 57d |
| 18845803 | CHARGING AND DISCHARGING METHOD FOR CLEANING DEVICE, AND CLEANING SYSTEM | LEE, DOUGLAS | — |
| 18711068 | CLEANING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD | MCCORMACK, JOHN PATRICK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17640306 | CLEANING MACHINE, CLEANING DEVICE, CONTROL AND INFORMATION DISPLAY METHODS THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | ZAWORSKI, JONATHAN R | 27d |
| 17922298 | TRAY AND CLEANING APPARATUS SYSTEM | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 57d |
| 18845803 | CHARGING AND DISCHARGING METHOD FOR CLEANING DEVICE, AND CLEANING SYSTEM | LEE, DOUGLAS | — |
| 18711068 | CLEANING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD | MCCORMACK, JOHN PATRICK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 3 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18845803 | CHARGING AND DISCHARGING METHOD FOR CLEANING DEVICE, AND CLEANING SYSTEM | LEE, DOUGLAS | 1714 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18711068 | CLEANING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD | MCCORMACK, JOHN PATRICK | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 17922298 | TRAY AND CLEANING APPARATUS SYSTEM | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 3723 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 57d | Pending | Oct 28, 2022 |
| 17640306 | CLEANING MACHINE, CLEANING DEVICE, CONTROL AND INFORMATION DISPLAY METHODS THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | ZAWORSKI, JONATHAN R | 3723 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Mar 03, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialTineco Intelligent Technology Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Douglas Lee has the most, with 1 of Tineco Intelligent Technology Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
