Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dick'S Sporting Goods Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, so the active docket has no examiner or art-unit overlap.
GRAMLING, SEAN P is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Each case can therefore be handled as a separate prosecution track, with portfolio-level review focused on consistency between the two matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAMLING, SEAN P | 1 | 66.6% | +28.0% |
| KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE | 1 | 35.1% | +27.4% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19054280 | MULTI-COLORED COVER LAYER FOR A GOLF BALL | GRAMLING, SEAN P | — |
| 18823990 | SPORTS REBOUNDING AND GOAL APPARATUS | KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2875 | 1 |
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19054280 | MULTI-COLORED COVER LAYER FOR A GOLF BALL | GRAMLING, SEAN P | 2875 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 18823990 | SPORTS REBOUNDING AND GOAL APPARATUS | KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE | 3711 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialDick'S Sporting Goods Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Sean P Gramling has the most, with 1 of Dick'S Sporting Goods Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
