Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Airborne Athletics, Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, each of whom is handling a single case. Both actions are assigned to 1 distinct art unit, providing a consistent procedural environment for the company's current filings. This focus on 1 distinct art unit indicates that the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering work is concentrated in one technical area.
KIM, AHSHIK is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly divided. Practitioners must address the requirements of 2 distinct examiners, but the shared 1 distinct art unit may simplify the overall management of the cases. With only 2 pending office actions total, the company's current prosecution presence is small and focused on a single point of administrative contact.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, AHSHIK | 1 | 87.8% | +10.6% |
| PINHEIRO, JASON PAUL | 1 | 63.8% | +32.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19170205 | BASKETBALL TRAINING SYSTEM | KIM, AHSHIK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17970191 | BASKETBALL TRAINING SYSTEM | PINHEIRO, JASON PAUL | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19170205 | BASKETBALL TRAINING SYSTEM | KIM, AHSHIK | — |
| 17970191 | BASKETBALL TRAINING SYSTEM | PINHEIRO, JASON PAUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19170205 | BASKETBALL TRAINING SYSTEM | KIM, AHSHIK | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 17970191 | BASKETBALL TRAINING SYSTEM | PINHEIRO, JASON PAUL | 3715 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2022 |
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