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
Convex Golf LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. This represents a singular point of prosecution for the company's current patent efforts. The 1 pending office action is the only active matter reported, meaning the company's immediate results in this technology area depend on the outcome of this specific case.
SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action under his review. Because there is only 1 pending office action, this examiner is responsible for the entire active workload. The presence of 1 distinct art unit confirms that the current prosecution is localized within a specific mechanical engineering group. Practitioners should focus their strategy on the specific tendencies of this 1 distinct examiner and the procedural norms of the assigned art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 1 | 65.3% | +12.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18405326 | INTERCHANGEABLE GOLF PUTTER SYSTEM COMPRISED OF A CONVEX FACE, VARIABLE LOFT, REMOVABLE HOSEL AND A VERTICAL WEIGHTING SYSTEM | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 34d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18405326 | INTERCHANGEABLE GOLF PUTTER SYSTEM COMPRISED OF A CONVEX FACE, VARIABLE LOFT, REMOVABLE HOSEL AND A VERTICAL WEIGHTING SYSTEM | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18405326 | INTERCHANGEABLE GOLF PUTTER SYSTEM COMPRISED OF A CONVEX FACE, VARIABLE LOFT, REMOVABLE HOSEL AND A VERTICAL WEIGHTING SYSTEM | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 3711 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
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