1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zhongshan Ruisheng Kitchenware Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner, Jon Michael Hegemier, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The matter is located in 1 distinct art unit, meaning all current prosecution activity for the company is concentrated under one examiner and one technical unit.
This focused structure simplifies the prosecution process for the practitioner. With only 1 pending action and a distinct examiner, there are no conflicting priorities to manage. The legal team can focus entirely on the specific standards of the 1 art unit and the individual preferences of Jon Michael Hegemier to achieve a favorable outcome for the company's patent application.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEGEMIER, JON MICHAEL | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18668942 | KNIFE SHARPENER THAT SELECTS DIFFERENT SHARPENING ANGLES OR DIFFERENT SHARPENING FORMS BY ROTATING SHARPENING COMPONENT DISC BOYD WITH KNOB | HEGEMIER, JON MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 4100 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18668942 | KNIFE SHARPENER THAT SELECTS DIFFERENT SHARPENING ANGLES OR DIFFERENT SHARPENING FORMS BY ROTATING SHARPENING COMPONENT DISC BOYD WITH KNOB | HEGEMIER, JON MICHAEL | 4100 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialZhongshan Ruisheng Kitchenware Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jon Michael Hegemier has the most, with 1 of Zhongshan Ruisheng Kitchenware Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
