Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tineco Intelligent Technology Co. Ltd. currently has 4 pending office actions in its patent portfolio, which falls under the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 4 actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners. The prosecution is distributed across 3 distinct art units, showing that the company's mechanical innovations are being reviewed by several different specialized groups. The involvement of 3 distinct art units within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector suggests a diverse range of technical subject matter.
The busiest examiner for the company is LEE, DOUGLAS, who is currently managing 1 pending office action. With 4 pending actions and 4 distinct examiners, the workload is spread evenly, with each examiner responsible for 1 action. This indicates that LEE, DOUGLAS is one of four officials currently evaluating the company's applications. The 4 to 4 ratio of actions to examiners ensures that each pending matter is being independently reviewed by a different individual. This distribution provides a variety of examiner perspectives on the company's intellectual property.
Practitioners must be prepared to handle 4 different examiner relationships across 3 different units. This profile represents a balanced prosecution environment where individual examiner attention is maintained across multiple technical departments. The involvement of 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations touch upon different sub-specialties within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. This data provides a baseline for future filings, as any expansion in the portfolio will likely introduce new examiners or art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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% |
| CARRILLO, BIBI SHARIDAN | 1 | 62.3% | -15.5% |
| FLORES, JUAN G | 1 | 79.5% | +14.5% |
| ZAWORSKI, JONATHAN R | 1 | 52.7% | +26.7% |
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 |
| 18845803 | CHARGING AND DISCHARGING METHOD FOR CLEANING DEVICE, AND CLEANING SYSTEM | LEE, DOUGLAS | — |
| 18577198 | SELF-CLEANING METHOD AND CONTROL METHOD FOR COOKING DEVICE | CARRILLO, BIBI SHARIDAN | — |
| 18526321 | CLEANING DEVICE AND COMBINED CLEANING SYSTEM | FLORES, JUAN G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17640306 | CLEANING MACHINE, CLEANING DEVICE, CONTROL AND INFORMATION DISPLAY METHODS THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | ZAWORSKI, JONATHAN R | 27d |
| 18845803 | CHARGING AND DISCHARGING METHOD FOR CLEANING DEVICE, AND CLEANING SYSTEM | LEE, DOUGLAS | — |
| 18526321 | CLEANING DEVICE AND COMBINED CLEANING SYSTEM | FLORES, JUAN G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1714 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 3723 | 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 |
| 18577198 | SELF-CLEANING METHOD AND CONTROL METHOD FOR COOKING DEVICE | CARRILLO, BIBI SHARIDAN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 18526321 | CLEANING DEVICE AND COMBINED CLEANING SYSTEM | FLORES, JUAN G | 3745 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 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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