Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Geox S P A has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. The distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests the company's filings touch upon multiple mechanical or medical specializations. Managing 2 pending office actions requires attention to the specific requirements of these different art units, which may have varying examination standards.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SMITH, HALEY ANNE, who is handling 1 pending office action. Because there are 2 distinct examiners involved, the workload is balanced across the 2 pending office actions. This structure indicates that no single examiner is overwhelmed by the company's current filings. The presence of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units reflects a fragmented prosecution environment for the company's current pending applications, requiring a coordinated strategy across 2 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, HALEY ANNE | 1 | 56.3% | +59.1% |
| KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 1 | 47.7% | +45.7% |
| GONZALEZ, JULIO CESAR | 1 | 74.6% | +14.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18044807 | SELF-POWERED LUMINOUS DEVICE AND SOLE STRUCTURE COMPRISING SAID LUMINOUS DEVICE | GONZALEZ, JULIO CESAR | 9d overdue |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18044807 | SELF-POWERED LUMINOUS DEVICE AND SOLE STRUCTURE COMPRISING SAID LUMINOUS DEVICE | GONZALEZ, JULIO CESAR | 9d overdue |
| 18560227 | SOLE STRUCTURE OF A SHOE AND SHOE WITH SUCH A SOLE STRUCTURE | SMITH, HALEY ANNE | 8d |
| 18256821 | CLOSING SYSTEM OF A SHOE OR CLOTHING ITEM OR ACCESSORY | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 26d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 2 |
| 2831 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18560227 | SOLE STRUCTURE OF A SHOE AND SHOE WITH SUCH A SOLE STRUCTURE | SMITH, HALEY ANNE | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18256821 | CLOSING SYSTEM OF A SHOE OR CLOTHING ITEM OR ACCESSORY | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 3732 | §102 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
| 18044807 | SELF-POWERED LUMINOUS DEVICE AND SOLE STRUCTURE COMPRISING SAID LUMINOUS DEVICE | GONZALEZ, JULIO CESAR | 2831 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Mar 10, 2023 |
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