Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Climax Foods Inc. is currently managing 3 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a concentrated but multi-faceted prosecution effort. This structure suggests that the company is pursuing related technologies that are being reviewed by different individuals at the patent office.
CHEN, ALAN S is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 2 busiest examiner pending actions. This means that CHEN, ALAN S is responsible for a significant portion of the company's active workload in the Computing & Software sector. With 3 pending office actions in total, the company must balance its strategy between the 2 distinct art units, though the focus remains heavily on the feedback and requirements of CHEN, ALAN S.
The use of 2 distinct examiners provides the company with different perspectives on its software innovations. Because the workload is spread across 2 distinct art units, the legal team must monitor two different sets of administrative trends. The 2 busiest examiner pending actions under CHEN, ALAN S represent a significant portion of the company's current active prosecution, making his specific preferences a key factor for success.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, ALAN S | 2 | 90.9% | +6.5% |
| LAU, TUNG S | 1 | 83.0% | +14.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18242228 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAMPLE CHARACTERIZATION | LAU, TUNG S | 14d |
| 18430461 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAMPLE EVALUATION TO MIMIC TARGET PROPERTIES | CHEN, ALAN S | — |
| 18202174 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAMPLE EVALUATION | CHEN, ALAN S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18242228 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAMPLE CHARACTERIZATION | LAU, TUNG S | 14d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2125 | 2 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18430461 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAMPLE EVALUATION TO MIMIC TARGET PROPERTIES | CHEN, ALAN S | 2125 | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18242228 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAMPLE CHARACTERIZATION | LAU, TUNG S | 2857 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
| 18202174 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAMPLE EVALUATION | CHEN, ALAN S | 2125 | §101§102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialClimax Foods Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Alan S Chen has the most, with 2 of Climax Foods Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
