Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
Decathlon currently has 6 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 6 distinct examiners, ensuring a wide variety of perspectives on the company's mechanical innovations. No single examiner is currently handling more than one of these 6 actions.
The portfolio is active across 5 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the 6 pending office actions are not clustered in a single technical niche but are instead spread across several different mechanical classifications. Huang, Grace is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending action, which is the same volume held by the other five examiners.
With 6 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, the prosecution of these 6 pending office actions is highly decentralized. Practitioners must prepare for 6 different examiner styles and 5 different sets of art unit trends. The fact that Huang, Grace and the other examiners each have only 1 pending action means that no single individual's tendencies will dominate the portfolio's current outcomes.
The strategy for Decathlon should involve a case by case analysis of each examiner's history. Since the 6 pending office actions are spread across 5 distinct art units, the legal team must be prepared to argue across a broad range of mechanical technologies. This diversity requires a flexible approach to patent prosecution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 4 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUANG, GRACE | 1 | 56.6% | +55.0% |
| WEBER, JONATHAN C | 1 | 64.7% | +28.3% |
| ZENG, LINGWEN R | 1 | 76.6% | +20.2% |
| NGUYEN, BAO-THIEU L | 1 | 66.9% | +24.3% |
| THEIS, MATTHEW T | 1 | 42.2% | +32.3% |
| KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE | 1 | 35.1% | +27.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18532027 | CARRYING ARTICLE WITH TWO SUPERIMPOSED POCKETS | THEIS, MATTHEW T | 78d overdue |
| 18687825 | Electric vehicle comprising a cavity for a battery, and assembly method | ZENG, LINGWEN R | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579380 | SOLE ELEMENT, FOOTWEAR ARTICLE COMPRISING SUCH A SOLE ELEMENT AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING SUCH A SOLE ELEMENT AND SUCH A FOOTWEAR ARTICLE | NGUYEN, BAO-THIEU L | 110d overdue |
| 18532027 | CARRYING ARTICLE WITH TWO SUPERIMPOSED POCKETS | THEIS, MATTHEW T | 78d overdue |
| 18881837 | KNITTED SOCK AND METHOD FOR KNITTING A SOCK | HUANG, GRACE | 30d overdue |
| 17689013 | EQUIPMENT FOR PLAYING BASKETBALL | KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE | 29d |
| 18741869 | Wadding for a shot or bullet cartridge, shot or bullet cartridge comprising such a wadding, and methods for producing said wadding and said cartridge | WEBER, JONATHAN C | — |
| 18687825 | Electric vehicle comprising a cavity for a battery, and assembly method | ZENG, LINGWEN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 2 |
| 3641 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| 3734 | 1 |
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18881837 | KNITTED SOCK AND METHOD FOR KNITTING A SOCK | HUANG, GRACE | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18741869 | Wadding for a shot or bullet cartridge, shot or bullet cartridge comprising such a wadding, and methods for producing said wadding and said cartridge | WEBER, JONATHAN C | 3641 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18687825 | Electric vehicle comprising a cavity for a battery, and assembly method | ZENG, LINGWEN R | 1723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18579380 | SOLE ELEMENT, FOOTWEAR ARTICLE COMPRISING SUCH A SOLE ELEMENT AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING SUCH A SOLE ELEMENT AND SUCH A FOOTWEAR ARTICLE | NGUYEN, BAO-THIEU L | 3732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 110d overdue | Pending | Jan 15, 2024 |
| 18532027 | CARRYING ARTICLE WITH TWO SUPERIMPOSED POCKETS | THEIS, MATTHEW T | 3734 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 78d overdue | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 17689013 | EQUIPMENT FOR PLAYING BASKETBALL | KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE | 3711 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Mar 08, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialDecathlon has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Grace Huang has the most, with 1 of Decathlon's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
