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 Upper Deck Company has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This case is handled by 1 distinct examiner, HYDER, MD SAKIB, within 1 distinct art unit. HYDER, MD SAKIB is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, covering the company's entire active prosecution. The portfolio's current activity is concentrated under this single official, which can simplify the communication process between the company and the office.
The concentration of the 1 pending office action within 1 distinct art unit allows the applicant to focus their technical arguments on the specific standards of that group. Because HYDER, MD SAKIB is the only official involved, practitioners should prioritize understanding this 1 distinct examiner's past decisions and preferred claim structures. This streamlined prosecution path reduces the need for coordinating across different technical groups but also means the company's current mechanical systems portfolio depends entirely on the resolution of this single matter. Success will require a strategy that directly addresses the 1 distinct art unit's standards.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HYDER, MD SAKIB | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18104564 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTIBLES | HYDER, MD SAKIB | 1d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3698 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18104564 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTIBLES | HYDER, MD SAKIB | 3698 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Feb 01, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialThe Upper Deck Company has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Md Sakib Hyder has the most, with 1 of The Upper Deck Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
