Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Boa Technology Inc. is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 5 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 5 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a distribution of the workload among several individuals. This means that each of the 5 pending actions is being reviewed by a different examiner.
The busiest examiner for the company is PRANGE, SHARON M, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This is one of the 5 total pending actions currently active for the portfolio. With 5 distinct examiners for the 5 actions, each examiner is managing exactly one matter within the 2 distinct art units involved. The 1 pending office action assigned to PRANGE, SHARON M is the only one for that examiner.
For a practitioner, the presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's medical device filings are split between two different technical groups. Managing 5 pending office actions across 5 distinct examiners requires attention to five different prosecution styles. The strategy must be tailored to the specific requirements of each of the 2 distinct art units while addressing the 5 active matters in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering.
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 | 3 (60%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRANGE, SHARON M | 1 | 54.2% | +46.6% |
| SULLIVAN, MATTHEW J | 1 | 62.9% | +22.9% |
| MERCADO, LOUIS A | 1 | 78.8% | +18.4% |
| LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN | 1 | 61.1% | +41.6% |
| KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 1 | 47.7% | +45.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18460147 | REEL BASED LACING SYSTEM | LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19068919 | REEL BASED CLOSURE DEVICES FOR TIGHTENING A SKI BOOT | PRANGE, SHARON M | 38d overdue |
| 18819996 | TENSION MEMBER GUIDES OF A LACING SYSTEM | SULLIVAN, MATTHEW J | 37d overdue |
| 17677737 | LACING CONFIGURATIONS FOR BOOTS AND OTHER FOOTWEAR | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 83d |
| 18413630 | REEL BASED CLOSURE SYSTEM | MERCADO, LOUIS A | — |
| 18460147 | REEL BASED LACING SYSTEM | LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 3 |
| 3677 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19068919 | REEL BASED CLOSURE DEVICES FOR TIGHTENING A SKI BOOT | PRANGE, SHARON M | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 18819996 | TENSION MEMBER GUIDES OF A LACING SYSTEM | SULLIVAN, MATTHEW J | 3677 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 37d overdue | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18413630 | REEL BASED CLOSURE SYSTEM | MERCADO, LOUIS A | 3677 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 18460147 | REEL BASED LACING SYSTEM | LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN | 3732 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 17677737 | LACING CONFIGURATIONS FOR BOOTS AND OTHER FOOTWEAR | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 3732 | §102 | Final Rejection | 83d | Pending | Feb 22, 2022 |
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