Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 1 of 7 (14%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
BAUER HOCKEY LLC currently manages a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area featuring 7 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 7 distinct examiners, indicating a distribution where each pending matter is assigned to a different official. This suggests that no single examiner is currently overwhelmed by the company's filings, although HADEN, SALLY CLINE is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The portfolio spans 5 distinct art units, reflecting a level of technological diversity within the Chemistry & Materials sector. With 7 pending office actions, the applicant must coordinate across multiple examination groups. The involvement of 7 distinct examiners across 5 distinct art units implies that while the technology is concentrated, the specific examiner assignments are varied. This structure requires the applicant to adapt to the individual styles of 7 different officials while navigating the standards of 5 separate art units. Managing 7 pending office actions across 5 distinct art units requires a versatile prosecution strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 5 (71%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 1 | 32.0% | +41.6% |
| MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1 | 46.2% | +43.1% |
| SONG, INJA | 1 | 66.4% | +48.8% |
| GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ | 1 | 68.8% | +44.0% |
| MALIK, VIPUL | 1 | 62.1% | +35.7% |
| HOANG, GIAO QT | 1 | 26.1% | +40.1% |
| TROCHE, EDGAREDMANUE | 1 | 57.8% | +35.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18070263 | SKATE OR OTHER FOOTWEAR | MALIK, VIPUL | 78d overdue |
| 18788214 | ARTICLES COMPRISING ADDITIVELY-MANUFACTURED COMPONENTS AND METHODS OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | — |
| 17390587 | HOCKEY-GOALKEEPER PADS | HOANG, GIAO QT | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18533023 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTED THERMAL EXPANSION STRUCTURE MANUFACTURING METHOD | SONG, INJA | 112d overdue |
| 18070263 | SKATE OR OTHER FOOTWEAR | MALIK, VIPUL | 78d overdue |
| 19057654 | GOALKEEPER CATCHING GLOVE | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 4d overdue |
| 18788214 | ARTICLES COMPRISING ADDITIVELY-MANUFACTURED COMPONENTS AND METHODS OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | — |
| 18081973 | ATHLETIC GEAR WITH A PRINTED COVER | GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ | — |
| 17390587 | HOCKEY-GOALKEEPER PADS | HOANG, GIAO QT | — |
| 16931695 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN ARTICLE OF SPORT GEAR | TROCHE, EDGAREDMANUE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 2 |
| 1744 | 2 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19057654 | GOALKEEPER CATCHING GLOVE | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | AI Ready | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 18788214 | ARTICLES COMPRISING ADDITIVELY-MANUFACTURED COMPONENTS AND METHODS OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1759 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18533023 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTED THERMAL EXPANSION STRUCTURE MANUFACTURING METHOD | SONG, INJA | 1744 | §103 | Final Rejection | 112d overdue | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18081973 | ATHLETIC GEAR WITH A PRINTED COVER | GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ | 1748 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2022 |
| 18070263 | SKATE OR OTHER FOOTWEAR | MALIK, VIPUL | 1754 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 78d overdue | Pending | Nov 28, 2022 |
| 17390587 | HOCKEY-GOALKEEPER PADS | HOANG, GIAO QT | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2021 |
| 16931695 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN ARTICLE OF SPORT GEAR | TROCHE, EDGAREDMANUE | 1744 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2020 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial