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
Elka Torantriebe GmbH U Co. Betriebs Kg has 1 pending office action in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matter is assigned to 1 examiner and 1 art unit, producing a single examination path.
YAO, THEODORE N is the listed examiner and handles the pending matter. Counsel can focus on one claim strategy and direct any prosecution interview or clarification request to that examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YAO, THEODORE N | 1 | 66.7% | +39.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18832931 | BOLLARD DRIVE FOR A BLOCKING BOLLARD, AND BLOCKING BOLLARD | YAO, THEODORE N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18832931 | BOLLARD DRIVE FOR A BLOCKING BOLLARD, AND BLOCKING BOLLARD | YAO, THEODORE N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3676 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18832931 | BOLLARD DRIVE FOR A BLOCKING BOLLARD, AND BLOCKING BOLLARD | YAO, THEODORE N | 3676 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialElka Torantriebe GmbH U Co. Betriebs Kg has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Theodore N Yao has the most, with 1 of Elka Torantriebe GmbH U Co. Betriebs Kg's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
