Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Golfzon Co. Ltd. is currently navigating 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 3 distinct examiners, showing that each pending matter is assigned to a different individual. This creates a diverse set of examiner interactions for the company's legal team.
The prosecution activity is spread across 2 distinct art units. Because the number of distinct examiners is 3 and the number of art units is 2, multiple examiners are operating within the same art unit. This concentration within 2 art units suggests a focused technical scope despite the involvement of multiple examiners.
STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This busiest examiner pending count of 1 is low relative to the 3 total pending office actions, indicating an even distribution of work. No single examiner holds a large portion of the pending cases, which may diversify the risks associated with individual examiner tendencies.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN | 1 | 39.2% | +35.5% |
| YOUNGER, KALYN GABRIELLE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| MCCLELLAN, JAMES S | 1 | 78.9% | +13.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18997509 | HYBRID GOLF SYSTEM USING MOVING SCREEN BOOTH | STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN | — |
| 18881295 | HYBRID GOLF SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING GOLF BALL OR MARKER AT BALL POINT ON FIELD UNDER THE HYBRID GOLF SYSTEM | YOUNGER, KALYN GABRIELLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18997509 | HYBRID GOLF SYSTEM USING MOVING SCREEN BOOTH | STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN | — |
| 18876218 | HYBRID GOLF SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC SCORING USING USER'S MOBILE TERMINAL IN THE SAME | MCCLELLAN, JAMES S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18997509 | HYBRID GOLF SYSTEM USING MOVING SCREEN BOOTH | STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 18881295 | HYBRID GOLF SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING GOLF BALL OR MARKER AT BALL POINT ON FIELD UNDER THE HYBRID GOLF SYSTEM | YOUNGER, KALYN GABRIELLE | 3711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2025 |
| 18876218 | HYBRID GOLF SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC SCORING USING USER'S MOBILE TERMINAL IN THE SAME | MCCLELLAN, JAMES S | 3715 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
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