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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sterling International, Inc. maintains 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. A single distinct examiner, MICHAEL H WANG, is responsible for this 1 pending office action. Prosecution is situated in 1 distinct art unit. The company's current patent examination is concentrated under this one examiner.
The 1 pending office action defines the current scale of the company's prosecution activity. Because the work is localized in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area, the company's efforts are focused on a single technical field. MICHAEL H WANG, as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, handles all active matters for the portfolio. This 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit structure allows the company to avoid the complexity of managing multiple prosecution styles or differing art unit practices across its current applications.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WANG, MICHAEL H | 1 | 52.1% | +25.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18358813 | INSECT STICKY TRAP WITH CORRUGATED SURFACE | WANG, MICHAEL H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3642 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18358813 | INSECT STICKY TRAP WITH CORRUGATED SURFACE | WANG, MICHAEL H | 3642 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSterling International, Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Michael H Wang has the most, with 1 of Sterling International, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
