Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software
9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ecco Sko A/S maintains a portfolio with 8 pending office actions, primarily situated within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed among 7 distinct examiners, suggesting a broad range of individual reviews. The high ratio of examiners to actions indicates that most matters are being handled by unique individuals, which can lead to diverse prosecution outcomes across the portfolio. The company's filings are spread across 6 distinct art units, demonstrating significant departmental breadth within the patent office.
KHAN, AMINA S is the busiest examiner for this company, with 2 busiest examiner pending office actions under her review. This concentration with a single examiner represents a portion of the 8 pending office actions total. For practitioners, the use of 6 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations in materials science are being evaluated against several different sets of examination guidelines and prior art pools. The involvement of 7 distinct examiners ensures that the company receives a wide variety of feedback across its active filings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 | 5 (56%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (22%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (22%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KHAN, AMINA S | 2 | 47.5% | +43.0% |
| VARGOT, MATHIEU D | 1 | 62.4% | +20.9% |
| SMITH, HALEY ANNE | 1 | 56.3% | +59.1% |
| TOOMER, CEPHIA D | 1 | 74.4% | +2.5% |
| THROWER, LARRY W | 1 | 65.9% | +12.6% |
| CAIN, ZACHARY ANDREW | 1 | 75.0% | +50.0% |
| ALAM, ROKEYA SHAWALI | 1 | 60.0% | +50.0% |
| ROY, DEBJANI | 1 | 75.8% | +15.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18710496 | DIRECT INJECTION FOOTWEAR MOULD ASSEMBLY AND DIRECT INJECTION FOOTWEAR BOTTOM MOULD ASSEMBLY | THROWER, LARRY W | 6d |
| 18572976 | A Footwear Manufacturing System | ALAM, ROKEYA SHAWALI | 19d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18868104 | A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING FOOTWEAR AND FOOTWEAR MANUFACTURED BY DIRECT INJECTION PRODUCTION | SMITH, HALEY ANNE | 11d overdue |
| 18710496 | DIRECT INJECTION FOOTWEAR MOULD ASSEMBLY AND DIRECT INJECTION FOOTWEAR BOTTOM MOULD ASSEMBLY | THROWER, LARRY W | 6d |
| 18573367 | A Footwear Manufacturing Robot System | CAIN, ZACHARY ANDREW | 8d |
| 18572976 | A Footwear Manufacturing System | ALAM, ROKEYA SHAWALI | 19d |
| 18030967 | A FOOTWEAR AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A FOOTWEAR USING DIRECT INJECTION PROCESS | ROY, DEBJANI | 26d |
| 19011157 | SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING MOULD-BASED EQUIPMENT FOR DIRECT INJECTION PRODUCTION OF FOOTWEAR AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING FOOTWEAR | VARGOT, MATHIEU D | — |
| 17416775 | METHOD OF DYEING COLLAGEN STAPLE FIBER | KHAN, AMINA S | — |
| 17416717 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A COLLAGEN YARN | KHAN, AMINA S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1761 | 2 |
| 3732 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| 2118 | 1 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19011157 | SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING MOULD-BASED EQUIPMENT FOR DIRECT INJECTION PRODUCTION OF FOOTWEAR AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING FOOTWEAR | VARGOT, MATHIEU D | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18868104 | A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING FOOTWEAR AND FOOTWEAR MANUFACTURED BY DIRECT INJECTION PRODUCTION | SMITH, HALEY ANNE | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18883590 | METHOD OF CONVERTING A TEXTILE BASED FEEDSTOCK | TOOMER, CEPHIA D | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18710496 | DIRECT INJECTION FOOTWEAR MOULD ASSEMBLY AND DIRECT INJECTION FOOTWEAR BOTTOM MOULD ASSEMBLY | THROWER, LARRY W | 1754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18573367 | A Footwear Manufacturing Robot System | CAIN, ZACHARY ANDREW | 2116 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18572976 | A Footwear Manufacturing System | ALAM, ROKEYA SHAWALI | 2118 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18030967 | A FOOTWEAR AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A FOOTWEAR USING DIRECT INJECTION PROCESS | ROY, DEBJANI | 1741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Apr 07, 2023 |
| 17416775 | METHOD OF DYEING COLLAGEN STAPLE FIBER | KHAN, AMINA S | 1761 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2021 |
| 17416717 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A COLLAGEN YARN | KHAN, AMINA S | 1761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2021 |
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