Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The portfolio is active in 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a specific focus for the current prosecution cycle, as there is no distribution of work across different technical groups. This concentration allows for a unified prosecution strategy but limits the diversity of examiner perspectives.
WILSON, GREGORY A is identified as the busiest examiner for the company. This individual is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The alignment between the total pending actions and the workload of this specific examiner indicates that all current activity is centralized under a single point of review. This centralization means the company's immediate patent strategy in this technology area depends entirely on the findings of WILSON, GREGORY A. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences of this individual to anticipate the outcome of the 1 pending office action.
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 | 81.8% | +6.9% |
| GIORDANO, MICHAEL JAMES | 1 | 77.6% | +19.3% |
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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