Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pha Co. Ltd. currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These cases are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, including LUGO, CARLOS, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The matters are distributed across 2 distinct art units.
The presence of 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners indicates that each case is being reviewed by a different individual. LUGO, CARLOS is responsible for 1 pending case, which shows that the workload is spread across the assigned staff. This structure requires the company to adapt to 2 different examination styles simultaneously.
With 2 distinct art units involved, the technical and procedural expectations will vary across the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems filings. Since LUGO, CARLOS handles 1 pending case, the practitioner must maintain separate communication channels for each matter. The prosecution strategy should focus on the specific requirements of the 2 distinct art units while addressing the unique feedback from each examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUGO, CARLOS | 1 | 74.9% | +13.6% |
| HANES JR., JOHN | 1 | 47.6% | +38.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18915808 | DUAL LOCKING DOOR LATCH STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE | LUGO, CARLOS | 42d |
| 18641823 | SLAT CONNECTION SYSTEM FOR ROLLER SHUTTER | HANES JR., JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| 3634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18915808 | DUAL LOCKING DOOR LATCH STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE | LUGO, CARLOS | 3675 | §112 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18641823 | SLAT CONNECTION SYSTEM FOR ROLLER SHUTTER | HANES JR., JOHN | 3634 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialPha Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Carlos Lugo has the most, with 1 of Pha 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.
