Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Polygroup Macau Limited (Bvi) currently has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a split in the technical review of their portfolio. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations are being evaluated under different mechanical or system classifications. This structure requires the company to navigate the specific requirements of two different art units simultaneously, even though the overall volume of active prosecution remains low.
CONLEY, FREDRICK C is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is divided equally between the 2 distinct examiners. This lack of concentration means that no single examiner dominates the company's patent strategy. Practitioners should prepare for distinct procedural styles, as each of the 2 distinct examiners will apply their own interpretation of the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems standards to the pending applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 1 | 70.6% | +12.8% |
| MAYO III, WILLIAM H | 1 | 77.0% | -3.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18393998 | SYSTEMS FOR AIR MATTRESS PRESSURE CONTROL | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 29d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18393998 | SYSTEMS FOR AIR MATTRESS PRESSURE CONTROL | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 1 |
| 2841 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18393998 | SYSTEMS FOR AIR MATTRESS PRESSURE CONTROL | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 3679 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18238918 | REINFORCED ELECTRIC WIRE AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | MAYO III, WILLIAM H | 2841 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPolygroup Macau Limited (Bvi) has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Fredrick C Conley has the most, with 1 of Polygroup Macau Limited (Bvi)'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
