Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
SportsMEDIA Technology Corporation currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 3 distinct art units, indicating a focused but multi-disciplinary prosecution strategy. The portfolio involves 4 distinct examiners, suggesting that the company interacts with a small group of patent office personnel. Managing 5 pending office actions across 3 distinct art units requires attention to the specific procedural nuances of each unit.
LEICHLITER, CHASE E serves as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. This concentration means that 2 of the total pending actions are handled by a single individual, while the remaining actions are split among the other 4 distinct examiners. Practitioners should monitor the specific preferences of these examiners to navigate the 3 distinct art units effectively. The presence of the distinct examiners for the pending office actions shows that most applications are being reviewed by different people within the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 2 (40%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEICHLITER, CHASE E | 2 | 64.5% | +23.3% |
| CHOWDHURY, SUMAIYA A | 1 | 69.8% | +28.7% |
| GALKA, LAWRENCE STEFAN | 1 | 76.8% | +18.4% |
| ITSKOVICH, MIKHAIL | 1 | 35.3% | +23.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19258255 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SECURE DATA FOR WAGERING FOR LIVE SPORTS EVENTS | LEICHLITER, CHASE E | — |
| 19187305 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SECURE DATA FOR WAGERING FOR LIVE SPORTS EVENTS | LEICHLITER, CHASE 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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18119605 | AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION AND MONITORING OF VEHICLES ON A RACETRACK WITH CORRESPONDING IMAGERY DATA FOR BROADCAST | ITSKOVICH, MIKHAIL | 4d overdue |
| 19247657 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENTS IN LIVE EVENT BROADCASTING | CHOWDHURY, SUMAIYA A | 46d |
| 19258255 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SECURE DATA FOR WAGERING FOR LIVE SPORTS EVENTS | LEICHLITER, CHASE E | — |
| 19187305 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SECURE DATA FOR WAGERING FOR LIVE SPORTS EVENTS | LEICHLITER, CHASE E | — |
| 18910427 | AUTOMATED OR ASSISTED UMPIRING OF BASEBALL GAME USING COMPUTER VISION | GALKA, LAWRENCE STEFAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 2 |
| 2421 | 1 |
| 2483 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19258255 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SECURE DATA FOR WAGERING FOR LIVE SPORTS EVENTS | LEICHLITER, CHASE E | 3715 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 |
| 19247657 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENTS IN LIVE EVENT BROADCASTING | CHOWDHURY, SUMAIYA A | 2421 | §112 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19187305 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SECURE DATA FOR WAGERING FOR LIVE SPORTS EVENTS | LEICHLITER, CHASE E | 3715 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 18910427 | AUTOMATED OR ASSISTED UMPIRING OF BASEBALL GAME USING COMPUTER VISION | GALKA, LAWRENCE STEFAN | — | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18119605 | AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION AND MONITORING OF VEHICLES ON A RACETRACK WITH CORRESPONDING IMAGERY DATA FOR BROADCAST | ITSKOVICH, MIKHAIL | 2483 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 09, 2023 |
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