Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Xiamen Songyu Plumbing Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The alignment of these figures shows a focused prosecution path for the company's current intellectual property filings. This concentration indicates that the company is not currently managing a diverse array of active applications across different patent office divisions.
CRAIG SANG KIM is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This single action represents the entirety of the company's pending workload. The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 busiest examiner pending action confirms that all current prosecution is centralized under a single reviewer's authority. For a practitioner, this means that the outcome of the company's immediate patent efforts in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field depends on the specific examination style of this individual.
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) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, CRAIG SANG | 1 | 86.4% | +9.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18412539 | HANDHELD SHOWERHEAD AND SHOWERHEAD ASSEMBLY | KIM, CRAIG SANG | 15d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18412539 | HANDHELD SHOWERHEAD AND SHOWERHEAD ASSEMBLY | KIM, CRAIG SANG | 3741 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Jan 14, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialXiamen Songyu Plumbing Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Craig Sang Kim has the most, with 1 of Xiamen Songyu Plumbing Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
