Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Lazer Sport NV manages a patent portfolio focused on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. According to the data, there is 1 pending office action currently active. This indicates that the company's current prosecution efforts are concentrated in a single matter, overseen by a single distinct examiner. For a patent practitioner, this singular focus means that the immediate success of the pending portfolio relies on a single point of contact.
The busiest examiner identified is HADEN, SALLY CLINE, who handles 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since this represents the total volume of 1 pending office action for the company, this examiner is responsible for the entire active workload. This concentration in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering suggests a streamlined prosecution phase where the company is not currently managing multiple simultaneous disputes or reviews.
Working within a single distinct art unit requires a deep understanding of that unit's specific examination standards. Because there is no diversity among examiners for the current pending matters, practitioners must focus their efforts on the specific tendencies and requirements of HADEN, SALLY CLINE. The prosecution strategy should be tailored to the unique technical expectations of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering group at the USPTO.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (100%) |
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% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17285014 | A HELMET FOR IMPACT PROTECTION | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 25d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17285014 | A HELMET FOR IMPACT PROTECTION | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Apr 13, 2021 |
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