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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
TEKNOR APEX Company has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to a distinct art unit and a distinct examiner. THOMAS Y HO is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling the 1 pending action. This represents a highly specific and focused point of prosecution for the company at this time. The alignment of a distinct examiner and art unit for the pending action suggests a very focused interaction with the patent office.
Because there is only a pending office action, the company's current prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the review process within the distinct art unit. The involvement of THOMAS Y HO as the sole examiner means that the outcome for this specific filing in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area rests with the assigned individual. This concentration simplifies the management of the pending work but also means there are no other concurrent cases to provide broader context for the examiner's current tendencies.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HO, THOMAS Y | 1 | 17.6% | +29.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19237485 | STORING AND RETRIEVING SENSOR DATA WITH A BLOCKCHAIN | HO, THOMAS Y | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19237485 | STORING AND RETRIEVING SENSOR DATA WITH A BLOCKCHAIN | HO, THOMAS Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19237485 | STORING AND RETRIEVING SENSOR DATA WITH A BLOCKCHAIN | HO, THOMAS Y | 3624 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialTEKNOR APEX Company has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Thomas Y Ho has the most, with 1 of TEKNOR APEX Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
