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
The Ames Companies Inc. manages a portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. KO HUNG CHAN is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Since the portfolio only contains 1 pending office action, this examiner manages all of the organization's current prosecution.
The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit for the 1 pending office action reflects a concentrated focus for the company's current patent applications. For practitioners, this means that the immediate future of the company's intellectual property in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field is tied to the review of KO HUNG CHAN. This level of concentration suggests a specialized technical filing. The outcome of the 1 pending office action will be the determining factor for the company's current standing at the USPTO.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAN, KO HUNG | 1 | 66.6% | +15.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18901509 | SHELF AND SHELF ASSEMBLY | CHAN, KO HUNG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3631 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18901509 | SHELF AND SHELF ASSEMBLY | CHAN, KO HUNG | 3631 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialThe Ames Companies Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ko Hung Chan has the most, with 1 of The Ames Companies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
