Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
22 pending office actions • 3 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 51 patents granted in the last 365 days
Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc. has 23 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 7 examiners across 3 art units, indicating significant concentration within a compact examination structure rather than broad dispersion across art units.
HUNTER, ALVIN A is the busiest examiner with 7 pending matters. That examiner represents a central prosecution workstream, making it useful to compare claim treatment and amendment outcomes within those matters before preparing responses. The other examiner assignments still require individualized attention, but the limited art-unit footprint supports coordinated technical and claim terminology.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (5%) |
| §103 only | 7 (32%) |
| §112 only | 1 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 3 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (27%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (5%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUNTER, ALVIN A | 7 | 85.7% | +2.8% |
| SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 4 | 65.3% | +12.5% |
| PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO | 4 | 83.0% | +15.1% |
| YOUNGER, KALYN GABRIELLE | 2 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| DENNIS, MICHAEL DAVID | 2 | 55.2% | +30.1% |
| PIERCE, WILLIAM M | 2 | 42.9% | +16.5% |
| RICHMOND, SCOTT A. | 1 | 87.0% | +4.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18905791 | IMAGE DISTORTION FOR SINGLE PASS PRINTING | RICHMOND, SCOTT A. | — |
| 18792777 | IRON TYPE GOLF CLUB HEAD | HUNTER, ALVIN A | — |
| 18791808 | GOLF CLUB HEADS | HUNTER, ALVIN A | — |
| 18783125 | LASER ABLATION PROCESS AND CORRESPONDING GOLF CLUB HEAD MADE BY THE SAME | PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO | — |
| 18764001 | GOLF CLUB HEAD | HUNTER, ALVIN A | — |
| 18761819 | GOLF CLUB HEAD | HUNTER, ALVIN A | — |
| 18750180 | GOLF CLUB | HUNTER, ALVIN A | — |
| 18515737 | GOLF CLUB HEAD WITH VERTICAL CENTER OF GRAVITY ADJUSTMENT | HUNTER, ALVIN A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18531430 | GOLF CLUB HEAD | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 29d |
| 19011549 | CLUSTER FOR AND METHOD OF CASTING GOLF CLUB HEADS | YOUNGER, KALYN GABRIELLE | — |
| 18898332 | CLUSTER FOR AND METHOD OF CASTING GOLF CLUB HEADS | YOUNGER, KALYN GABRIELLE | — |
| 18892181 | GOLF CLUB HEADS | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | — |
| 18883947 | GOLF CLUB HEAD | PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO | — |
| 18796753 | GOLF CLUB HEAD | PIERCE, WILLIAM M | — |
| 18789416 | MULTI-PIECE GOLF CLUB HEAD | PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO | — |
| 18661362 | LASER ABLATION PROCESS AND CORRESPONDING GOLF CLUB HEAD MADE BY THE SAME | PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18531430 | GOLF CLUB HEAD | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 29d |
| 18913535 | GOLF CLUB | DENNIS, MICHAEL DAVID | — |
| 18892181 | GOLF CLUB HEADS | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | — |
| 18883947 | GOLF CLUB HEAD | PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO | — |
| 18830380 | GOLF CLUB HEADS | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | — |
| 18825926 | GOLF CLUB HEAD | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | — |
| 18796753 | GOLF CLUB HEAD | PIERCE, WILLIAM M | — |
| 18789416 | MULTI-PIECE GOLF CLUB HEAD | PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 20 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19011549 | CLUSTER FOR AND METHOD OF CASTING GOLF CLUB HEADS | YOUNGER, KALYN GABRIELLE | 3711 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18936651 | GOLF CLUB HEAD | HUNTER, ALVIN A | 3711 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18913535 | GOLF CLUB | DENNIS, MICHAEL DAVID | 3711 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18905791 | IMAGE DISTORTION FOR SINGLE PASS PRINTING | RICHMOND, SCOTT A. | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18898332 | CLUSTER FOR AND METHOD OF CASTING GOLF CLUB HEADS | YOUNGER, KALYN GABRIELLE | 1735 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18892181 | GOLF CLUB HEADS | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 3711 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18883947 | GOLF CLUB HEAD | PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO | 3711 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18830380 | GOLF CLUB HEADS | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 3711 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18825926 | GOLF CLUB HEAD | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 3711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18796753 | GOLF CLUB HEAD | PIERCE, WILLIAM M | 3711 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18792777 | IRON TYPE GOLF CLUB HEAD | HUNTER, ALVIN A | 3711 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18791808 | GOLF CLUB HEADS | HUNTER, ALVIN A | 3711 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18789416 | MULTI-PIECE GOLF CLUB HEAD | PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO | 3711 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18783125 | LASER ABLATION PROCESS AND CORRESPONDING GOLF CLUB HEAD MADE BY THE SAME | PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO | 3711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18764001 | GOLF CLUB HEAD | HUNTER, ALVIN A | 3711 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18761819 | GOLF CLUB HEAD | HUNTER, ALVIN A | 3711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
| 18750180 | GOLF CLUB | HUNTER, ALVIN A | 3711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18743971 | GOLF CLUB HEAD | DENNIS, MICHAEL DAVID | 3711 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18662372 | GOLF CLUB HEADS | PIERCE, WILLIAM M | 3711 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18661362 | LASER ABLATION PROCESS AND CORRESPONDING GOLF CLUB HEAD MADE BY THE SAME | PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO | 3711 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18531430 | GOLF CLUB HEAD | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 3711 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18515737 | GOLF CLUB HEAD WITH VERTICAL CENTER OF GRAVITY ADJUSTMENT | HUNTER, ALVIN A | 3711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialTaylor Made Golf Company, Inc. has 22 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 7 examiners.
Alvin A Hunter has the most, with 7 of Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
