Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sundance Spas, Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct art units, which suggests the portfolio covers diverse technical sub-sectors within the broader mechanical systems field. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners indicates that the prosecution process is not centralized under a single individual, potentially requiring different advocacy approaches for each application. This distribution across 2 distinct art units may also imply that the company is navigating different sets of examination guidelines within the patent office.
The examiner KIRK, BRYAN J is currently the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. While this individual manages 1 pending office action, the total volume of 2 pending office actions remains low, suggesting a manageable prosecution pipeline. Because there are 2 distinct examiners for only 2 pending office actions, the company experiences a high ratio of examiners to active cases. This relationship between the 2 pending office actions and the 2 distinct examiners means that no single examiner's habits will dominate the overall prosecution results for the current Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems filings.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIRK, BRYAN J | 1 | 33.9% | +44.1% |
| BAKER, LORI LYNN | 1 | 78.6% | +6.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18506531 | HYBRID SPA | BAKER, LORI LYNN | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18607126 | REMOTE SPA CONTROL SYSTEM | KIRK, BRYAN J | 18d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3628 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18607126 | REMOTE SPA CONTROL SYSTEM | KIRK, BRYAN J | 3628 | §103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18506531 | HYBRID SPA | BAKER, LORI LYNN | 3754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSundance Spas, Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Bryan J Kirk has the most, with 1 of Sundance Spas, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
