Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Spanx LLC is currently managing 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are all concentrated within 1 distinct art units, which suggests a specific technical focus for the company's current patent applications. The prosecution is distributed among 4 distinct examiners, meaning that every one of the 4 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different individual.
HALE, GLORIA M is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 4 distinct examiners assigned to 4 pending office actions, no single examiner has a dominant influence over the company's pending matters. This distribution within 1 distinct art units indicates that while the technical area is narrow, the company must adapt to four different examination styles to advance its 4 pending office actions toward issuance.
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) | 3 (75%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HALE, GLORIA M | 1 | 72.9% | +19.3% |
| HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 1 | 32.0% | +41.6% |
| BRAVO, JOCELYN MARY | 1 | 50.1% | +45.2% |
| QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 1 | 51.3% | +30.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18603513 | GARMENT WITH REAR ACCESS SPACE | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 1d overdue |
| 19036422 | GARMENT WITH REAR ACCESS | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | — |
| 18773971 | UPPER BODY GARMENT | BRAVO, JOCELYN MARY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18603513 | GARMENT WITH REAR ACCESS SPACE | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 1d overdue |
| 19196244 | FOLDOVER LOWER ABDOMINAL SHAPING GARMENT | HALE, GLORIA M | — |
| 19036422 | GARMENT WITH REAR ACCESS | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | — |
| 18773971 | UPPER BODY GARMENT | BRAVO, JOCELYN MARY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19196244 | FOLDOVER LOWER ABDOMINAL SHAPING GARMENT | HALE, GLORIA M | 3732 | — | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 01, 2025 |
| 19036422 | GARMENT WITH REAR ACCESS | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 3732 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18773971 | UPPER BODY GARMENT | BRAVO, JOCELYN MARY | 3732 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18603513 | GARMENT WITH REAR ACCESS SPACE | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 3732 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
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