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
Zhongshan Jinwen Electrical Appliance Industrial Co. Ltd. currently manages a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The presence of 1 pending office action indicates a singular point of active engagement with the USPTO. This activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a narrow technical focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts. SHIRSAT, VIVEK K serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending office action currently on record.
Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved across the entire set of pending matters, the company faces no examiner-driven variability in its current prosecution pipeline. This centralized structure allows practitioners to focus their resources on the procedural tendencies of a single individual within a single art unit. The lack of broader distribution across multiple examiners or art units simplifies the monitoring requirements for this specific portfolio at this time. Strategic responses can be tailored specifically to the feedback provided in the 1 pending office action without the need to coordinate with other pending matters.
The 1 distinct art units involved provide a stable regulatory environment for the company's mechanical engineering innovations. SHIRSAT, VIVEK K represents the sole point of contact for the company's active prosecution, centralizing all negotiation efforts. With 1 busiest examiner pending, the applicant can anticipate a consistent examination style across their current USPTO filings. This concentration in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector highlights the company's primary area of technical investment. The 1 distinct examiners currently assigned ensures that the prosecution strategy remains focused and unfragmented.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | 1 | 74.3% | +27.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18782300 | Integrated Gas Stove | SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18782300 | Integrated Gas Stove | SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialZhongshan Jinwen Electrical Appliance Industrial Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Vivek K Shirsat has the most, with 1 of Zhongshan Jinwen Electrical Appliance Industrial Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
