Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Golftec Enterprises LLC has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners. All of these matters are located within 1 distinct art unit, showing a high degree of technical concentration for the company's current pending matters.
MCCULLOCH JR, WILLIAM H is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. This indicates that while the company's applications are concentrated in a single art unit, they are being reviewed by 3 different individuals within that group. Since there are 3 actions and 3 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution requires the company to address the specific preferences of 3 different individuals even though all of its current Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering applications are being reviewed within the same specialized art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCULLOCH JR, WILLIAM H | 1 | 54.3% | +33.8% |
| MOSSER, ROBERT E | 1 | 46.7% | +9.8% |
| GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 21.8% | +7.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19003114 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A VIRTUAL GOLF CADDY ON A MOBILE DEVICE USING LAUNCH MONITOR DATA | MCCULLOCH JR, WILLIAM H | — |
| 18392117 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BALL TRAJECTORY BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING ACCORDING TO PREVIOUS TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS AND D-PLANE DETERMINATION | MOSSER, ROBERT E | — |
| 18466200 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CALIBRATING A MOBILE DEVICE FOR USE IN GREEN READING | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19003114 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A VIRTUAL GOLF CADDY ON A MOBILE DEVICE USING LAUNCH MONITOR DATA | MCCULLOCH JR, WILLIAM H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19003114 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A VIRTUAL GOLF CADDY ON A MOBILE DEVICE USING LAUNCH MONITOR DATA | MCCULLOCH JR, WILLIAM H | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18392117 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BALL TRAJECTORY BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING ACCORDING TO PREVIOUS TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS AND D-PLANE DETERMINATION | MOSSER, ROBERT E | 3715 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18466200 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CALIBRATING A MOBILE DEVICE FOR USE IN GREEN READING | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 3715 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
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