Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sport Maska Inc. has 6 pending office actions in its patent portfolio. These matters are classified under the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area and are distributed across 3 distinct art units. This suggests that the company's mechanical innovations are being reviewed by several different specialized groups within the patent office.
The portfolio's prosecution is handled by 6 distinct examiners. DAKOTA MARIN is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Because there are 6 pending actions and 6 examiners, each examiner is currently managing exactly one of the company's pending matters. This one-to-one ratio between examiners and pending actions indicates a decentralized prosecution landscape. Practitioners should be prepared to navigate 6 different examiner styles and 3 different art unit environments to manage this active docket effectively.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (83%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARIN, DAKOTA | 1 | 52.3% | +59.2% |
| LEGESSE, NINI F | 1 | 68.6% | +15.3% |
| TOLIN, MICHAEL A | 1 | 63.2% | +27.0% |
| QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 1 | 51.3% | +30.4% |
| LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN | 1 | 61.1% | +41.6% |
| STONER, KILEY SHAWN | 1 | 80.8% | +15.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18456948 | PROTECTIVE SPORTS EQUIPMENT | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 38d overdue |
| 18023869 | NAMEBAR PRINTER ASSEMBLY FOR SPORTING EQUIPMENT | STONER, KILEY SHAWN | 22d overdue |
| 18873814 | SKATE WITH FOOT WRAPPING SYSTEM | MARIN, DAKOTA | — |
| 18873537 | HAND-HELD SECTION OF A SPORTING GOOD IMPLEMENT | LEGESSE, NINI F | — |
| 18749935 | SKATE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | TOLIN, MICHAEL A | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18456948 | PROTECTIVE SPORTS EQUIPMENT | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 38d overdue |
| 18023869 | NAMEBAR PRINTER ASSEMBLY FOR SPORTING EQUIPMENT | STONER, KILEY SHAWN | 22d overdue |
| 18873814 | SKATE WITH FOOT WRAPPING SYSTEM | MARIN, DAKOTA | — |
| 18873537 | HAND-HELD SECTION OF A SPORTING GOOD IMPLEMENT | LEGESSE, NINI F | — |
| 18749935 | SKATE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | TOLIN, MICHAEL A | — |
| 18024824 | HELMET WITH LATTICE LINER | LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 3 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18873814 | SKATE WITH FOOT WRAPPING SYSTEM | MARIN, DAKOTA | 3732 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18873537 | HAND-HELD SECTION OF A SPORTING GOOD IMPLEMENT | LEGESSE, NINI F | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18749935 | SKATE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | TOLIN, MICHAEL A | 1745 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18456948 | PROTECTIVE SPORTS EQUIPMENT | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 3732 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
| 18024824 | HELMET WITH LATTICE LINER | LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN | 3732 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
| 18023869 | NAMEBAR PRINTER ASSEMBLY FOR SPORTING EQUIPMENT | STONER, KILEY SHAWN | 1735 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
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