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
Timken Smo LLC is managing 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a narrow technical focus for the company's current active patent application in the chemistry field. The 1 pending office action highlights the company's ongoing efforts to secure intellectual property rights for its materials-based innovations.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is HENRY Y LIU, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution is highly concentrated. This single pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials field is the primary focus of the company's current interactions with the patent office. Practitioners can develop a targeted strategy based on the specific examiner's history and the standards of the single art unit. The involvement of only 1 distinct examiner simplifies the management and coordination of the company's current active prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIU, HENRY Y | 1 | 75.7% | +13.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18833106 | IMPROVED V-RIBBED BELT | LIU, HENRY Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18833106 | IMPROVED V-RIBBED BELT | LIU, HENRY Y | 3654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTimken Smo LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Henry Y Liu has the most, with 1 of Timken Smo LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
