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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
INA International Ltd. has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 4 examiners and 3 art units, indicating separate examiner handling with some overlap among technical units.
HADEN, SALLY CLINE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Counsel should manage each response independently while using the three art units to coordinate terminology and identify related device or mechanical issues.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 1 | 32.1% | +41.5% |
| DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | 1 | 44.9% | +45.7% |
| JOHNSON, JUSTIN ALAN | 1 | 94.9% | +7.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35522300 | Hockey protective shin pad | JOHNSON, JUSTIN ALAN | 4d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18997706 | PROTECTIVE SPORTS EQUIPMENT WITH LAYERED SEGMENTED PADDING | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 13d |
| 18873576 | STRAPPING SYSTEM FOR SPORTS EQUIPMENT | DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 2 |
| 2911 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18997706 | PROTECTIVE SPORTS EQUIPMENT WITH LAYERED SEGMENTED PADDING | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 18873576 | STRAPPING SYSTEM FOR SPORTS EQUIPMENT | DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | 3732 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 35522300 | Hockey protective shin pad | JOHNSON, JUSTIN ALAN | 2911 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialINA International Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Sally Cline Haden has the most, with 1 of INA International Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
