Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sport Squad Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both of these actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a narrow technical focus for the current prosecution. However, the work is split between 2 distinct examiners. This combination of administrative concentration and examiner diversity creates a unique environment for the company's intellectual property development.
DENNIS, MICHAEL DAVID is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since there are multiple pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is handling exactly one case. While the administrative group provides some consistency, the presence of different examiners means the company must address different examiner perspectives within that single unit. Practitioners should note that while the 1 distinct art unit may have specific internal guidelines, the 2 distinct examiners will likely apply them differently to each of the 2 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DENNIS, MICHAEL DAVID | 1 | 55.3% | +30.0% |
| VANDERVEEN, JEFFREY S | 1 | 64.2% | +17.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18389174 | Game Paddle | VANDERVEEN, JEFFREY S | 2d overdue |
| 19336408 | GAME PADDLE | DENNIS, MICHAEL DAVID | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19336408 | GAME PADDLE | DENNIS, MICHAEL DAVID | 3711 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Sep 22, 2025 |
| 18389174 | Game Paddle | VANDERVEEN, JEFFREY S | 3711 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
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