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
Sikh Helmets Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, indicating a highly concentrated prosecution effort. The focus of the portfolio suggests that the company is prioritizing a specific technical advancement rather than a broad array of filings. Practitioners should observe that this concentration leaves no room for alternative prosecution paths within the current active workload.
DENKOVIC, HALEY is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because this individual handles the entirety of the company's active cases, the prosecution outcome is entirely dependent on a reviewer's interpretation of the claims. This lack of examiner diversity requires a strategy that is highly sensitive to the specific tendencies and historical preferences of the assigned official. There are no other pending matters to provide a baseline for comparison across different art units.
The presence of a distinct art unit further emphasizes the narrow technical focus of the current portfolio. For a practitioner, this means that all current efforts are subject to the specific examination standards of a departmental group. Success in this matter will require a deep understanding of the examiner's previous actions and the specific requirements of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering section. The current data shows no distribution that would allow for a more diversified intellectual property approach.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DENKOVIC, HALEY | 1 | 56.7% | +58.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19143837 | A PROTECTIVE HELMET AND METHODS OF USING AND MAKING SAME | DENKOVIC, HALEY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19143837 | A PROTECTIVE HELMET AND METHODS OF USING AND MAKING SAME | DENKOVIC, HALEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19143837 | A PROTECTIVE HELMET AND METHODS OF USING AND MAKING SAME | DENKOVIC, HALEY | 3732 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSikh Helmets Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Haley Denkovic has the most, with 1 of Sikh Helmets Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.