Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
BAUER HOCKEY LLC currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's current legal challenges are spread across different technical evaluations within the engineering field. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the patent applications may cover diverse aspects of mechanical systems, requiring specialized arguments for each case.
SMITH, HALEY ANNE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. While there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split so that 2 distinct examiners are involved. This suggests that the company must manage multiple examiner relationships simultaneously. Practitioners should be prepared for different examination styles, as the involvement of 2 distinct art units increases the likelihood of varied procedural requirements across the portfolio. Coordinating responses is essential to ensure that the 2 pending office actions do not result in conflicting claim scopes.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, HALEY ANNE | 1 | 56.3% | +59.1% |
| KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE | 1 | 35.1% | +27.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16005428 | Hockey-Stick Blade with Reinforcing Frame | KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE | 61d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16005428 | Hockey-Stick Blade with Reinforcing Frame | KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE | 61d |
| 18220943 | SHOULDER PADS AND OTHER PROTECTIVE GEAR FOR UPPER BODY PROTECTION | SMITH, HALEY ANNE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18220943 | SHOULDER PADS AND OTHER PROTECTIVE GEAR FOR UPPER BODY PROTECTION | SMITH, HALEY ANNE | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 16005428 | Hockey-Stick Blade with Reinforcing Frame | KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE | 3711 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Jun 11, 2018 |
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