Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 62 patents granted in the last 365 days
Converse Inc. is currently engaged in the patent prosecution process within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio shows 1 pending office action, which is being handled by 1 distinct examiner. This indicates a very specific focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts. MANGINE, HEATHER N is the busiest examiner for this applicant, as she is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently on the docket.
The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a narrow technical scope for the pending application. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the success of the 1 pending office action depends entirely on the interaction with MANGINE, HEATHER N. This centralized approach in 1 distinct art unit allows for a focused legal strategy. The 1 pending office action represents the current hurdle for Converse Inc. in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Practitioners should tailor their arguments to the specific technical standards of the 1 distinct art unit and the preferences of the 1 distinct examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MANGINE, HEATHER N | 1 | 47.4% | +65.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18509802 | CLOSURE MECHANISMS FOR ARTICLES OF FOOTWEAR | MANGINE, HEATHER N | 26d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18509802 | CLOSURE MECHANISMS FOR ARTICLES OF FOOTWEAR | MANGINE, HEATHER N | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
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