Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wuhu Midea Kitchen And Bath Appliances Mfg Co. Ltd. operates in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company has 2 pending office actions. These actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, but both are located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while the technical review is centralized in one specialized group, the company is interacting with multiple individuals within that group in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
GIORDANO, MICHAEL JAMES is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. With 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split equally between the 2 distinct examiners. Each examiner is responsible for 1 of the company's active matters. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical evaluation of the company's kitchen and bath appliance technology remains within a single specialized division at the patent office.
For the practitioner, having 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit for 2 pending office actions offers a balance of consistency and variety. The technical standards of the art unit will likely be uniform, but the individual examiners may have different preferences for claim language. Managing these 2 pending office actions requires a strategy that respects the unit's general guidelines while addressing the specific feedback from GIORDANO, MICHAEL JAMES and the other assigned examiner.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILSON, GREGORY A | 1 | 81.9% | +6.9% |
| GIORDANO, MICHAEL JAMES | 1 | 76.9% | +18.6% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18239422 | WATER TANK ASSEMBLY OF HEATING DEVICE, AND HEATING DEVICE | WILSON, GREGORY A | 76d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18239457 | PREMIXING DEVICE FOR WATER HEATER AND WATER HEATER HAVING SAME | GIORDANO, MICHAEL JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18239422 | WATER TANK ASSEMBLY OF HEATING DEVICE, AND HEATING DEVICE | WILSON, GREGORY A | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 76d | Pending | Aug 29, 2023 |
| 18239457 | PREMIXING DEVICE FOR WATER HEATER AND WATER HEATER HAVING SAME | GIORDANO, MICHAEL JAMES | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialWuhu Midea Kitchen And Bath Appliances Mfg Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Gregory A Wilson has the most, with 1 of Wuhu Midea Kitchen And Bath Appliances Mfg Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
