Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Playcore Wisconsin Inc. is currently navigating 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. The presence of 2 art units indicates that the portfolio spans different technical specializations within the engineering field, requiring a strategy that accounts for different departmental norms at the patent office.
The busiest examiner, AWAD, AMR A, is handling 2 pending office actions. This accounts for 2 of the 4 total pending office actions for the company. Because 3 distinct examiners are involved in the 4 actions, the prosecution strategy involves limited examiner overlap. AWAD, AMR A maintains the highest individual volume, while the other 3 distinct examiners manage the remaining pending office actions to advance the company's intellectual property goals.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWAD, AMR A | 2 | 36.4% | +20.4% |
| LOCKETT, KIMBERLY R | 1 | 82.5% | +11.0% |
| SCOLES, PHILIP GRANT | 1 | 57.1% | +14.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18745152 | OUTDOOR MUSHROOM INSTRUMENTS | LOCKETT, KIMBERLY R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19212090 | SWING DESIGNED TO PROMOTE ATTUNEMENT BETWEEN CHILD AND CARETAKER | AWAD, AMR A | — |
| 19193882 | PLAYGROUND APPARATUS COMPRISING A CAMERA SUPPORT | AWAD, AMR A | — |
| 18136643 | OUTDOOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS HAVING SMARTPHONE-INTERACTIVE FEATURES AND SMARTPHONE STAND | SCOLES, PHILIP GRANT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19212090 | SWING DESIGNED TO PROMOTE ATTUNEMENT BETWEEN CHILD AND CARETAKER | AWAD, AMR A | — |
| 19193882 | PLAYGROUND APPARATUS COMPRISING A CAMERA SUPPORT | AWAD, AMR A | — |
| 18745152 | OUTDOOR MUSHROOM INSTRUMENTS | LOCKETT, KIMBERLY R | — |
| 18136643 | OUTDOOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS HAVING SMARTPHONE-INTERACTIVE FEATURES AND SMARTPHONE STAND | SCOLES, PHILIP GRANT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 2 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19212090 | SWING DESIGNED TO PROMOTE ATTUNEMENT BETWEEN CHILD AND CARETAKER | AWAD, AMR A | 3711 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 19193882 | PLAYGROUND APPARATUS COMPRISING A CAMERA SUPPORT | AWAD, AMR A | 3711 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 18745152 | OUTDOOR MUSHROOM INSTRUMENTS | LOCKETT, KIMBERLY R | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18136643 | OUTDOOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS HAVING SMARTPHONE-INTERACTIVE FEATURES AND SMARTPHONE STAND | SCOLES, PHILIP GRANT | 2837 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
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