Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Chi-Ching Chen

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

Analysis

Chi-Ching Chen operates within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action in its patent portfolio. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within a distinct art unit. The portfolio's focus on Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems involves a single point of contact at the patent office for its current pending matter.

REAGAN, JAMES A is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for the busiest examiner pending office action. This figure accounts for the total pending office actions for the company. The examiner REAGAN, JAMES A is the only individual currently reviewing pending office actions for the company.

The alignment of prosecution across the distinct examiner and the distinct art unit shows the distribution of the workload. REAGAN, JAMES A is the sole examiner handling the busiest examiner pending office action. This arrangement in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area means the company's current patent office interactions are limited to this single examiner and art unit. Practitioners should note that all current prosecution activity is consolidated under these specific parameters.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
0
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
REAGAN, JAMES A 1 71.4% +19.9%

Hard Cases (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18390429 DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD REAGAN, JAMES A —

Interview Candidates (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18390429 DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD REAGAN, JAMES A —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3697 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18390429 DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD REAGAN, JAMES A 3697 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 20, 2023

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