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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Eastern Company has 1 pending office action in its company patent portfolio. This action is in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. There is 1 distinct examiner assigned to this 1 pending office action, meaning the entire active portfolio is under the review of a single person. This examiner is located in 1 distinct art unit, showing a concentrated technical focus.
LIANG, HONGYE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending action. With only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the workload is centralized. This means that the 1 distinct art unit contains the portfolio's only active matter. The presence of 1 distinct art unit for the 1 pending office action indicates that the company's mechanical and transportation innovations are currently focused in a single USPTO classification.
Practitioners will work with 1 distinct examiner, LIANG, HONGYE, who oversees the 1 pending action. This arrangement provides a single point of contact for the company's current prosecution efforts. The 1 pending office action represents the full extent of the portfolio's immediate interaction with the USPTO within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIANG, HONGYE | 1 | 63.4% | +52.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18931292 | System and Method for Remotely Locking and Unlocking Vehicle Accessory Locks | LIANG, HONGYE | 57d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3664 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18931292 | System and Method for Remotely Locking and Unlocking Vehicle Accessory Locks | LIANG, HONGYE | 3664 | §112 | Final Rejection | 57d | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialThe Eastern Company has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Hongye Liang has the most, with 1 of The Eastern Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
