Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Life Fitness LLC manages a portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There are currently 4 pending office actions being handled by 4 distinct examiners. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating some technological variety within the medical device field. The use of multiple examiners suggests that the patent office is reviewing different aspects of the company's technology simultaneously.
NGUYEN, NYCA T is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly distributed. The distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests the company's innovations span multiple specialized examination groups within the mechanical engineering sector. For a practitioner, this means coordinating across different art units while dealing with a one-to-one ratio of examiners to pending actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, NYCA T | 1 | 67.5% | +24.6% |
| KENNEDY, JOSHUA T | 1 | 51.1% | +48.5% |
| BODDIE, WILLIAM | 1 | 27.2% | +23.3% |
| DICUIA, JONATHAN ANGELO | 1 | 52.9% | +48.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18337773 | FITNESS MACHINES WITH ADJUSTABLE SHOCK ABSORPTION AND METHODS OF ADJUSTING SHOCK ABSORPTION FOR FITNESS MACHINES | DICUIA, JONATHAN ANGELO | 146d overdue |
| 18748048 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADJUSTING A STIFFNESS OF FITNESS MACHINES | NGUYEN, NYCA T | 51d overdue |
| 18440196 | EXERCISE MACHINES AND METHODS OF ASSEMBLING EXERCISE MACHINES HAVING AN ADJUSTABLE CONSOLE ASSEMBLY | BODDIE, WILLIAM | 42d 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18337773 | FITNESS MACHINES WITH ADJUSTABLE SHOCK ABSORPTION AND METHODS OF ADJUSTING SHOCK ABSORPTION FOR FITNESS MACHINES | DICUIA, JONATHAN ANGELO | 146d overdue |
| 18748048 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADJUSTING A STIFFNESS OF FITNESS MACHINES | NGUYEN, NYCA T | 51d overdue |
| 18440196 | EXERCISE MACHINES AND METHODS OF ASSEMBLING EXERCISE MACHINES HAVING AN ADJUSTABLE CONSOLE ASSEMBLY | BODDIE, WILLIAM | 42d overdue |
| 18443897 | EXERCISE MACHINES AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING EXERCISE MACHINES | KENNEDY, JOSHUA T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3784 | 3 |
| 2625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18748048 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADJUSTING A STIFFNESS OF FITNESS MACHINES | NGUYEN, NYCA T | 3784 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 51d overdue | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
| 18443897 | EXERCISE MACHINES AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING EXERCISE MACHINES | KENNEDY, JOSHUA T | 3784 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18440196 | EXERCISE MACHINES AND METHODS OF ASSEMBLING EXERCISE MACHINES HAVING AN ADJUSTABLE CONSOLE ASSEMBLY | BODDIE, WILLIAM | 2625 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18337773 | FITNESS MACHINES WITH ADJUSTABLE SHOCK ABSORPTION AND METHODS OF ADJUSTING SHOCK ABSORPTION FOR FITNESS MACHINES | DICUIA, JONATHAN ANGELO | 3784 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 146d overdue | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
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