Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Personality Gym AB has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This spread indicates that the company's current applications are being reviewed by different specialists in separate units. For a practitioner, this suggests that the company's technology covers multiple sub-categories within the mechanical engineering field, requiring a strategy that addresses the specific standards of different art units.
LETTERMAN, CATRINA A is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Because there are 2 pending office actions in total, and 2 distinct examiners, the busiest examiner is responsible for 1 action. The presence of distinct art units for the actions requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for the individual approaches of different examiners. This distribution ensures that each application is evaluated for its specific technical merits by an examiner specialized in the relevant art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BODDIE, WILLIAM | 1 | 27.2% | +23.3% |
| LETTERMAN, CATRINA A | 1 | 66.9% | +30.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18423891 | WEIGHT LIFTING APPARATUS WITH INTERMITTENT DRIVE | LETTERMAN, CATRINA A | 114d overdue |
| 18423898 | WEIGHT LIFTING APPARATUS WITH WEIGHT DISKS | BODDIE, WILLIAM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18423891 | WEIGHT LIFTING APPARATUS WITH INTERMITTENT DRIVE | LETTERMAN, CATRINA A | 114d overdue |
| 18423898 | WEIGHT LIFTING APPARATUS WITH WEIGHT DISKS | BODDIE, WILLIAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2625 | 1 |
| 3784 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18423898 | WEIGHT LIFTING APPARATUS WITH WEIGHT DISKS | BODDIE, WILLIAM | 2625 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18423891 | WEIGHT LIFTING APPARATUS WITH INTERMITTENT DRIVE | LETTERMAN, CATRINA A | 3784 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 114d overdue | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
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