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
Safe Metal has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, showing a focused prosecution effort for the company's current intellectual property within 1 specialized division of the patent office.
The portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner, TSUI, ALFRED H. This means that 1 individual is responsible for reviewing the company's active application, which ensures that the prosecution of the matter is managed by 1 person throughout the process.
As the busiest examiner, TSUI, ALFRED H is managing 1 pending office action. Because this single examiner oversees 1 out of 1 total pending matters, the company's entire active prosecution landscape is currently dependent on the review and timeline of this 1 individual at the patent office.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TSUI, ALFRED H | 1 | 33.0% | +32.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18713173 | Wear assembly for a bucket of an extraction or works machine | TSUI, ALFRED H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18713173 | Wear assembly for a bucket of an extraction or works machine | TSUI, ALFRED H | 3671 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSafe Metal has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Alfred H Tsui has the most, with 1 of Safe Metal's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
