Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
Hsin Chong Machinery Works Co. Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This specific workload is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The focus of current prosecution activity rests entirely with examiner BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A, who is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
For a practitioner, this centralized portfolio structure means that prosecution outcomes are currently dependent on the assigned personnel at the USPTO. With 1 distinct examiner involved, the applicant lacks the diversity of examiner perspectives that larger portfolios often encounter. The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests a narrow technological focus for the pending matters within this sector.
The active workload assigned to BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A represents the total current engagement with the office. Monitoring the specific tendencies and past allowance rates of this individual is critical, as there are no other pending actions to balance potential difficulties. This arrangement defines the current landscape for Hsin Chong Machinery Works Co. Ltd.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | 1 | 85.1% | +3.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18242490 | SUNROOF DEVICE | BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3612 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18242490 | SUNROOF DEVICE | BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | 3612 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
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