Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Bridgestone Sports Co. Ltd.

7 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
7
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
14% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
86% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GORDEN, RAEANN 3 83.1% -5.0%
SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT 1 65.2% +12.3%
LEE, EDMUND H 1 69.2% +17.6%
STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN 1 38.5% +35.2%
HUNTER, ALVIN A 1 85.7% +2.8%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18764867 RUBBER COMPOSITION FOR GOLF BALL, AND GOLF BALL GORDEN, RAEANN 17d overdue
18761936 MULTI-PIECE SOLID GOLF BALL GORDEN, RAEANN 10d overdue
18769978 CONSTITUENT MEMBER OF GOLF BALL GORDEN, RAEANN 2d overdue
17724578 GOLF BALL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE HUNTER, ALVIN A 20d

Interview Candidates (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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18651806 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GOLF BALL LEE, EDMUND H 44d overdue
18605087 GOLF BALL STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN 17d overdue
18775191 MULTI-PIECE SOLID GOLF BALL SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT 40d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3711 6
1744 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18775191 MULTI-PIECE SOLID GOLF BALL SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT 3711 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Jul 17, 2024
18769978 CONSTITUENT MEMBER OF GOLF BALL GORDEN, RAEANN 3711 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jul 11, 2024
18764867 RUBBER COMPOSITION FOR GOLF BALL, AND GOLF BALL GORDEN, RAEANN 3711 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jul 05, 2024
18761936 MULTI-PIECE SOLID GOLF BALL GORDEN, RAEANN 3711 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jul 02, 2024
18651806 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GOLF BALL LEE, EDMUND H 1744 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending May 01, 2024
18605087 GOLF BALL STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN 3711 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Mar 14, 2024
17724578 GOLF BALL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE HUNTER, ALVIN A 3711 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Apr 20, 2022

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