Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sportsfield Intellectual LLC manages a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There are currently 2 pending office actions associated with the portfolio. These actions are handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a high degree of technical focus, as the active matters are being processed through the same administrative channel at the patent office.
ARYANPOUR, MITRA is the busiest examiner for the company, with 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. This indicates that the entirety of the portfolio's active prosecution is consolidated under a single examiner. For practitioners, this concentration in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector means that examiner-specific trends will be the primary factor in the portfolio's immediate outcomes. Because the pending office actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner, the company's success is currently tied to the specific interpretations of this one individual. This scenario requires a strategy to address the specific requirements of the pending office actions within this art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARYANPOUR, MITRA | 2 | 56.2% | +33.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18048601 | FORMS FOR CONSTRUCTING A FOUNDATION FOR BATTER'S AND CATCHER'S BOXES, AND SUPPORTING A HOME PLATE | ARYANPOUR, MITRA | 19d |
| 17455745 | FORMS AND METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTING A PITCHING MOUND FOR USE ON A SYNTHETIC TURF FIELD | ARYANPOUR, MITRA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18048601 | FORMS FOR CONSTRUCTING A FOUNDATION FOR BATTER'S AND CATCHER'S BOXES, AND SUPPORTING A HOME PLATE | ARYANPOUR, MITRA | 3711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Oct 21, 2022 |
| 17455745 | FORMS AND METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTING A PITCHING MOUND FOR USE ON A SYNTHETIC TURF FIELD | ARYANPOUR, MITRA | 3711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2021 |
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