Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Piolax Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters span 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, showing distribution across examiners with some art-unit overlap.
BUTCHER, CAROLINE N is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate separate examiner responses while accounting for the shared art-unit structure.
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 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUTCHER, CAROLINE N | 1 | 81.2% | +13.3% |
| IRVIN, SHEA WOODROW | 1 | 60.0% | -11.5% |
| RASHID, MAHBUBUR | 1 | 67.8% | +20.5% |
| PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 1 | 69.0% | +22.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18858538 | LOCK DEVICE FOR OPENING/CLOSING BODY | BUTCHER, CAROLINE N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18842411 | DAMPER DEVICE | RASHID, MAHBUBUR | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18858538 | LOCK DEVICE FOR OPENING/CLOSING BODY | BUTCHER, CAROLINE N | — |
| 18842411 | DAMPER DEVICE | RASHID, MAHBUBUR | — |
| 18420077 | VALVE DEVICE FOR FUEL TANK | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3616 | 2 |
| 3676 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18858538 | LOCK DEVICE FOR OPENING/CLOSING BODY | BUTCHER, CAROLINE N | 3676 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18842409 | DAMPER DEVICE | IRVIN, SHEA WOODROW | 3616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18842411 | DAMPER DEVICE | RASHID, MAHBUBUR | 3616 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18420077 | VALVE DEVICE FOR FUEL TANK | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 3753 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialPiolax Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Caroline N Butcher has the most, with 1 of Piolax Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
