Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wuxi Little Swan Electric Co., Ltd. has 9 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 9 actions are distributed among 9 distinct examiners, which means that every pending matter is being reviewed by a different person. This distribution across 9 distinct examiners suggests a high degree of personnel diversity in the company's prosecution. The portfolio is also spread across 6 distinct art units, indicating that the company's innovations cover a variety of technical classifications within the chemistry field.
TATE-SIMS, CRISTI J is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This matches the workload of the other distinct examiners, each of whom also has 1 pending action. The 6 distinct art units involved suggest that the 9 pending office actions are subject to different sets of technical standards and prior art. Practitioners should ensure that the 9 distinct examiners receive consistent messaging, even as they work across 6 different art units to manage the 9 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 6 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (22%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TATE-SIMS, CRISTI J | 1 | 83.7% | +14.5% |
| BELL, SPENCER E | 1 | 63.3% | +12.6% |
| LEE, DOUGLAS | 1 | 45.3% | +13.7% |
| AYALEW, TINSAE B | 1 | 75.8% | +9.1% |
| TEKA, ABIY | 1 | 84.9% | +10.2% |
| MULLER, BRYAN R | 1 | 43.8% | +30.9% |
| LINDSAY, BERNARD G | 1 | 68.2% | +46.9% |
| HENSON, KATINA N | 1 | 56.6% | +31.9% |
| DU, ZONGHUA A | 1 | 59.0% | +42.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18607383 | LAUNDRY WASHING MACHINE WITH LATERALLY COUPLED REMOVABLE AGITATOR | TATE-SIMS, CRISTI J | 14d |
| 18574196 | OPERATION CONTROL METHOD OF DUAL WASHING MACHINE, ELECTRIC APPLIANCE, AND DUAL WASHING MACHINE | TEKA, ABIY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18576541 | CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL APPARATUS OF CLEANING DEVICE, AND CLEANING DEVICE | AYALEW, TINSAE B | — |
| 18573751 | OPERATION CONTROL METHOD, ELECTRIC APPLIANCE, AND CLEANING AND TREATMENT APPARATUS | LINDSAY, BERNARD 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569514 | DUST COLLECTION ASSEMBLY, SWEEPER BASE STATION, SWEEPER, AND CLEANING APPARATUS | HENSON, KATINA N | 1d overdue |
| 18607383 | LAUNDRY WASHING MACHINE WITH LATERALLY COUPLED REMOVABLE AGITATOR | TATE-SIMS, CRISTI J | 14d |
| 18569501 | ELECTRICAL DEVICE NETWORK CONFIGURATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | DU, ZONGHUA A | 14d |
| 18293948 | CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLEANING ASSEMBLY, CLEANING ASSEMBLY, AND MEDIUM | BELL, SPENCER E | — |
| 18578440 | WASHING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FLOOR CLEANING DEVICE, AND CLEANING APPARATUS | LEE, DOUGLAS | — |
| 18574196 | OPERATION CONTROL METHOD OF DUAL WASHING MACHINE, ELECTRIC APPLIANCE, AND DUAL WASHING MACHINE | TEKA, ABIY | — |
| 18574210 | PEDESTAL ASSEMBLY, PEDESTAL DEVICE AND LAUNDRY PROCESSING APPARATUS | MULLER, BRYAN R | — |
| 18573751 | OPERATION CONTROL METHOD, ELECTRIC APPLIANCE, AND CLEANING AND TREATMENT APPARATUS | LINDSAY, BERNARD G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1711 | 3 |
| 3723 | 2 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 2119 | 1 |
| 2444 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18607383 | LAUNDRY WASHING MACHINE WITH LATERALLY COUPLED REMOVABLE AGITATOR | TATE-SIMS, CRISTI J | 1711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18293948 | CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLEANING ASSEMBLY, CLEANING ASSEMBLY, AND MEDIUM | BELL, SPENCER E | 1711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18578440 | WASHING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FLOOR CLEANING DEVICE, AND CLEANING APPARATUS | LEE, DOUGLAS | 1714 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18576541 | CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL APPARATUS OF CLEANING DEVICE, AND CLEANING DEVICE | AYALEW, TINSAE B | 1711 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18574196 | OPERATION CONTROL METHOD OF DUAL WASHING MACHINE, ELECTRIC APPLIANCE, AND DUAL WASHING MACHINE | TEKA, ABIY | 3745 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2023 |
| 18574210 | PEDESTAL ASSEMBLY, PEDESTAL DEVICE AND LAUNDRY PROCESSING APPARATUS | MULLER, BRYAN R | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2023 |
| 18573751 | OPERATION CONTROL METHOD, ELECTRIC APPLIANCE, AND CLEANING AND TREATMENT APPARATUS | LINDSAY, BERNARD G | 2119 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18569514 | DUST COLLECTION ASSEMBLY, SWEEPER BASE STATION, SWEEPER, AND CLEANING APPARATUS | HENSON, KATINA N | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18569501 | ELECTRICAL DEVICE NETWORK CONFIGURATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | DU, ZONGHUA A | 2444 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
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