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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
INA International Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, meaning each case is being reviewed by a different person. The busiest examiner, HADEN, SALLY CLINE, is responsible for 1 pending office action.
The 3 pending office actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, indicating some technical variety within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. With 3 distinct examiners and 2 art units, the portfolio is relatively dispersed for its small size. This means that the prosecution of the actions will likely be influenced by three different individual perspectives and 2 different art unit environments. For the practitioner, this requires a more tailored approach for each action, as there is no single examiner handling multiple cases. The distribution across the art units suggests that the company's innovations may span different sub-specialties, requiring the legal team to adapt to the specific norms of each unit while managing the examiners.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| §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 | 32.0% | +41.6% |
| LEGESSE, NINI F | 1 | 68.6% | +15.3% |
| 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 |
| 18878041 | FLEXIBLE SHAFT FOR HOCKEY STICK | LEGESSE, NINI F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| 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 |
| 18878041 | FLEXIBLE SHAFT FOR HOCKEY STICK | LEGESSE, NINI F | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2024 |
| 35522300 | Hockey protective shin pad | JOHNSON, JUSTIN ALAN | 2911 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
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