Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
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
Checkers Industrial Products LLC currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio suggests a highly specific focus for the company's current patent activities.
HSIAO, JAMES K is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 pending office action. This represents the entirety of the company's busiest examiner pending workload, which stands at 1. Practitioners should note that the limited number of active cases and examiners provides a narrow window into the company's broader prosecution strategy at this time. The alignment of the active workload with the 1 distinct examiner indicates that the file is currently under a single individual's review. Because the portfolio involves the 1 distinct art unit, the technical scope remains tightly constrained within the USPTO administrative structure. This centralized approach may simplify communication but limits the diversity of examiner perspectives across the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HSIAO, JAMES K | 1 | 77.1% | +15.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18436211 | AVIATION WHEEL CHOCK | HSIAO, JAMES K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18436211 | AVIATION WHEEL CHOCK | HSIAO, JAMES K | 3616 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCheckers Industrial Products LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
James K Hsiao has the most, with 1 of Checkers Industrial Products LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
