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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Qingdao Activa Shade Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The portfolio uses 3 examiners across 2 art units, indicating multiple examination relationships with some concentration at the art-unit level.
MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. A response program should preserve a matter-by-matter review while checking whether the shared art-unit assignments create recurring claim or prior-art issues.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 1 | 62.5% | +64.0% |
| HAWK, NOAH CHANDLER | 1 | 61.3% | +22.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19037837 | UMBRELLA HUB AND BATTERY PACK ASSEMBLY | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18622102 | HAND PUSHED TENT | HAWK, NOAH CHANDLER | 84d |
| 19037837 | UMBRELLA HUB AND BATTERY PACK ASSEMBLY | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 1 |
| 3636 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19037837 | UMBRELLA HUB AND BATTERY PACK ASSEMBLY | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 3634 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18622102 | HAND PUSHED TENT | HAWK, NOAH CHANDLER | 3636 | §103 | Final Rejection | 84d | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialQingdao Activa Shade Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Shiref M Mekhaeil has the most, with 1 of Qingdao Activa Shade Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
