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
Yu-Hua Chen currently has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio's active prosecution is highly focused, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current legal efforts at the USPTO are concentrated on a specific technical filing in the mechanical or e-commerce domain. For practitioners, this singular focus allows for a more targeted response strategy.
The busiest examiner for the company is SIMMONS, SYDNEY JEANINE, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there is 1 distinct examiner assigned to the portfolio, the entirety of the pending workload is subject to this individual's review. This singular focus in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector simplifies the management of the company's current patent applications. The 1 distinct art unit involved further confirms that the company's active prosecution is limited to a single technical domain at this time. This structure facilitates a more direct engagement with the USPTO during the examination of the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIMMONS, SYDNEY JEANINE | 1 | 75.0% | +33.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18546803 | GAS CURTAIN DEVICE FOR FRONT OPENING UNIFIED POD | SIMMONS, SYDNEY JEANINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18546803 | GAS CURTAIN DEVICE FOR FRONT OPENING UNIFIED POD | SIMMONS, SYDNEY JEANINE | 3654 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialYu-Hua Chen has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sydney Jeanine Simmons has the most, with 1 of Yu-Hua Chen's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
