Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cole Haan LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to a single distinct art unit and involves a single distinct examiner. NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action currently under review. For practitioners, this represents a concentrated prosecution path where a single individual oversees the company's pending workload.
The presence of a single distinct art unit and a single distinct examiner for the pending office action suggests a focus in the current prosecution cycle. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER, as there are no other active matters to provide broader context within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. This relationship between the company and the examiner simplifies the communication channel but increases the impact of a single examiner's perspective on the portfolio. The 1 pending office action is the only matter currently active.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 1 | 42.7% | +42.9% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19185719 | Article of Footwear Having Increased Torsional Stiffness | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19185719 | Article of Footwear Having Increased Torsional Stiffness | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialCole Haan LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Grady Alexander Nunnery has the most, with 1 of Cole Haan LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
