Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shenzhen Pax Smart New Technology Co. Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, reflecting a one-to-one ratio between pending matters and the examining personnel involved. This distribution indicates that the company's current mechanical prosecution is not concentrated within a single specialized group or under a specific examiner.
IMMANUEL, ILSE I is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action constitutes part of the 2 pending office actions in the portfolio. The involvement of 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending office actions suggests that the subject matter of these filings is technically diverse within the broader transportation category. For practitioners, this means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to the specific preferences of each of the 2 distinct examiners, as there is no overlap to leverage across the 2 pending office actions. The 2 distinct art units require independent legal arguments for each application, reflecting a decentralized approach to the company's mechanical intellectual property.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMMANUEL, ILSE I | 1 | 27.7% | +27.2% |
| MCFARLAND-BARNES, KELAH JANAE | 1 | 80.0% | +8.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18022939 | METHOD FOR DATA PROTECTION, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | MCFARLAND-BARNES, KELAH JANAE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19238995 | DECRYPTION METHOD FOR PAYMENT KEY | IMMANUEL, ILSE I | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19238995 | DECRYPTION METHOD FOR PAYMENT KEY | IMMANUEL, ILSE I | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3699 | 1 |
| 2431 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19238995 | DECRYPTION METHOD FOR PAYMENT KEY | IMMANUEL, ILSE I | 3699 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 18022939 | METHOD FOR DATA PROTECTION, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | MCFARLAND-BARNES, KELAH JANAE | 2431 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialShenzhen Pax Smart New Technology Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Ilse I Immanuel has the most, with 1 of Shenzhen Pax Smart New Technology 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.