Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ipex Technologies Inc. manages a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions, which are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. This indicates that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual, requiring the company to navigate multiple examiner perspectives.
The current prosecution activity is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a focused technical scope for the company's innovations. CHOI, WILLIAM SOON is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 busiest examiner pending office action represents half of the company's total pending workload.
For practitioners, the presence of 2 distinct examiners within a single art unit requires maintaining consistency in technical arguments. While the examiners may have different individual styles, they are both operating under the same art unit standards. The 2 pending office actions are evenly distributed, meaning that the outcome of each case is equally significant to the company's current goals in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
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 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | 1 | 74.4% | +11.5% |
| DUNWOODY, AARON M | 1 | 75.2% | +11.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18781126 | Push-Fit Pipe Fitting | DUNWOODY, AARON M | 42d overdue |
| 19442207 | Pipe Fitting with Fusible Sleeve | CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18781126 | Push-Fit Pipe Fitting | DUNWOODY, AARON M | 42d overdue |
| 19442207 | Pipe Fitting with Fusible Sleeve | CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19442207 | Pipe Fitting with Fusible Sleeve | CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | 3679 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2026 |
| 18781126 | Push-Fit Pipe Fitting | DUNWOODY, AARON M | 3679 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialIpex Technologies Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
William Soon Choi has the most, with 1 of Ipex Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
