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
Morimatsu (Jiangsu) Heavy Industry Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a concentrated prosecution focus for the company's active portfolio. Such a narrow distribution means that the company's immediate results are dependent on the evaluation of a single individual within a specific technical group at the USPTO. Practitioners should note that this concentration means the outcome of the portfolio is tied to the specific technical group and individual examiner assigned.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is PATTERSON, GARRETT CHRISTOPHER, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This examiner handles the only pending action identified in the data, as the count of 1 pending action matches the number of distinct examiners and art units. For a practitioner, this means that understanding the specific examination style of PATTERSON, GARRETT CHRISTOPHER is a critical factor in managing the company's current patent applications. The lack of diversity in examiners or art units for this 1 pending matter simplifies the administrative tracking but increases the impact of any single examiner's decision on the overall portfolio. The company's strategy in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector must be highly targeted to address the requirements of this single point of interaction.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATTERSON, GARRETT CHRISTOPHER | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18880358 | SUPPORT COLUMN, PROCESS DEVICE MODULE, AND CONSTRUCTION METHOD THEREOF | PATTERSON, GARRETT CHRISTOPHER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3633 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18880358 | SUPPORT COLUMN, PROCESS DEVICE MODULE, AND CONSTRUCTION METHOD THEREOF | PATTERSON, GARRETT CHRISTOPHER | 3633 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialMorimatsu (Jiangsu) Heavy Industry Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Garrett Christopher Patterson has the most, with 1 of Morimatsu (Jiangsu) Heavy Industry 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.
