Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 110 patents granted in the last 365 days
Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are handled by 2 examiners across 2 art units, indicating that the portfolio is concentrated in a small examination footprint.
NELSON, THORNTON C is the busiest examiner, with 4 pending matters. The concentration makes examiner-specific prosecution planning particularly relevant, including review of recurring claim issues and consistent positions across the matters assigned there.
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 (14%) |
| §112 only | 2 (29%) |
| Double-patenting only | 3 (43%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NELSON, THORNTON C | 4 | 95.4% | +4.8% |
| BAYS, MARIE D | 1 | 74.5% | +19.5% |
| LYNCH, MEGAN E | 1 | 38.1% | +39.7% |
| MASALIMOVA, YELIZAVETA YURYEVNA | 1 | 96.3% | +4.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29963853 | SHOE SOLE | NELSON, THORNTON C | 15d |
| 29963339 | SHOE SOLE | NELSON, THORNTON C | 15d |
| 29963004 | SHOE SOLE | NELSON, THORNTON C | 15d |
| 29953249 | SOLE | NELSON, THORNTON C | — |
| 29915835 | SHOE | MASALIMOVA, YELIZAVETA YURYEVNA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19353548 | FOOTWEAR STRAP AND FOOTWEAR HAVING THE SAME | BAYS, MARIE D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19353548 | FOOTWEAR STRAP AND FOOTWEAR HAVING THE SAME | BAYS, MARIE D | — |
| 18411892 | SHOE UPPER AND SHOE HAVING THE SAME | LYNCH, MEGAN E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2912 | 5 |
| 3732 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19353548 | FOOTWEAR STRAP AND FOOTWEAR HAVING THE SAME | BAYS, MARIE D | 3732 | §102§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
| 29963853 | SHOE SOLE | NELSON, THORNTON C | 2912 | DP | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 29963339 | SHOE SOLE | NELSON, THORNTON C | 2912 | DP | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 29963004 | SHOE SOLE | NELSON, THORNTON C | 2912 | DP | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 29953249 | SOLE | NELSON, THORNTON C | 2912 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18411892 | SHOE UPPER AND SHOE HAVING THE SAME | LYNCH, MEGAN E | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 29915835 | SHOE | MASALIMOVA, YELIZAVETA YURYEVNA | 2912 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSkechers U.S.A., Inc. II has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Thornton C Nelson has the most, with 4 of Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
