Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Decathlon is currently managing 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct art units, indicating that the company's intellectual property in this sector spans several specialized examination groups.
The prosecution workload is spread among 5 distinct examiners, with each examiner handling a portion of the active cases. HUANG, GRACE is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that no examiner holds a majority of the pending matters for Decathlon.
The ratio of pending office actions to 4 distinct art units suggests a range of technical subject matter within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the company's legal strategy must account for different individual examination styles across the art units involved.
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 | 56.8% | +55.2% |
| WEBER, JONATHAN C | 1 | 64.6% | +28.5% |
| ZENG, LINGWEN R | 1 | 76.6% | +20.3% |
| NGUYEN, BAO-THIEU L | 1 | 66.7% | +24.6% |
| THEIS, MATTHEW T | 1 | 42.1% | +32.5% |
| KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE | 1 | 35.1% | +27.5% |
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 |
| 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 | — | §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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