Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • 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
Smith Sport Optics Inc. is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a diversified prosecution strategy. This distribution suggests that the company's current patent applications cover different technical aspects or are being evaluated under different classification standards at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the company is MORAN, KATHERINE M, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is evenly divided among the examiners. For practitioners, this means that the portfolio's success is not tied to a single individual or unit. Instead, the strategy must be adapted to two different sets of examiner expectations and art unit guidelines, providing the company with multiple independent paths toward securing patent rights.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORAN, KATHERINE M | 1 | 54.2% | +24.2% |
| JOHANSEN, JOHN E | 1 | 76.5% | +27.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18593821 | HELMET WITH IMPACT STRUCTURE | MORAN, KATHERINE M | 60d overdue |
| 17962332 | GOGGLE CUSTOMIZATION SYSTEM AND METHODS | JOHANSEN, JOHN E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18593821 | HELMET WITH IMPACT STRUCTURE | MORAN, KATHERINE M | 60d overdue |
| 17962332 | GOGGLE CUSTOMIZATION SYSTEM AND METHODS | JOHANSEN, JOHN E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| 2187 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18593821 | HELMET WITH IMPACT STRUCTURE | MORAN, KATHERINE M | 3732 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 17962332 | GOGGLE CUSTOMIZATION SYSTEM AND METHODS | JOHANSEN, JOHN E | 2187 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2022 |
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