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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ching Feng Home Fashions Co., Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are both assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a highly centralized prosecution effort where the entire pending workload is handled by a single individual in one technical group.
HANES JR., JOHN is the busiest examiner, responsible for 2 pending office actions. Because he is the only examiner involved, he manages the entire active workload for the company. This concentration means that the company's prosecution outcomes are entirely dependent on the decisions and timelines of this 1 examiner.
The presence of only 1 distinct art unit for the 2 pending office actions further emphasizes the focused nature of the portfolio. Practitioners should focus their strategy on the specific tendencies and requirements of HANES JR., JOHN within the assigned art unit. This Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems portfolio currently has a very narrow and singular prosecution footprint.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HANES JR., JOHN | 1 | 47.6% | +38.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18825109 | SHEER VERTICAL BLIND STRUCTURE | HANES JR., JOHN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18825109 | SHEER VERTICAL BLIND STRUCTURE | HANES JR., JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18825109 | SHEER VERTICAL BLIND STRUCTURE | HANES JR., JOHN | 3634 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialChing Feng Home Fashions Co., Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
John Hanes Jr. has the most, with 1 of Ching Feng Home Fashions Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
