Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wuhu Midea Smart Kitchen Appliance Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. Those actions involve 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating that the current prosecution work is distributed across separate examination assignments.
SONG, ZHENG B is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Counsel should therefore track each matter independently, because the available data does not identify a concentrated examiner or art-unit cluster.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SONG, ZHENG B | 1 | 70.1% | +15.0% |
| WANG, ZHIPENG | 1 | 80.8% | +23.6% |
| WOLFORD, KURT JOSEPH | 1 | 75.7% | +26.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18788547 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING WATER HEATER, WATER HEATER AND STORAGE MEDIUM | WANG, ZHIPENG | — |
| 18730987 | HEAT EXCHANGER AND WATER HEATER | WOLFORD, KURT JOSEPH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19335378 | LIGHT GUIDE STRUCTURE, BACKLIGHT MODULE, DISPLAY SCREEN, AND HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE | SONG, ZHENG B | — |
| 18788547 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING WATER HEATER, WATER HEATER AND STORAGE MEDIUM | WANG, ZHIPENG | — |
| 18730987 | HEAT EXCHANGER AND WATER HEATER | WOLFORD, KURT JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2875 | 1 |
| 2115 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19335378 | LIGHT GUIDE STRUCTURE, BACKLIGHT MODULE, DISPLAY SCREEN, AND HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE | SONG, ZHENG B | 2875 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2025 |
| 18788547 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING WATER HEATER, WATER HEATER AND STORAGE MEDIUM | WANG, ZHIPENG | 2115 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18730987 | HEAT EXCHANGER AND WATER HEATER | WOLFORD, KURT JOSEPH | 3762 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialWuhu Midea Smart Kitchen Appliance Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Zheng B Song has the most, with 1 of Wuhu Midea Smart Kitchen Appliance Manufacturing Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
