Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Taylor Made Golf Company Inc.

12 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 56 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (42%)
2
Easy (17%)
5
Unknown (42%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (42%)
§112 only2 (17%)
No statute on record5 (42%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
12
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO 6 83.0% +15.8%
HUNTER, ALVIN A 3 85.7% +2.8%
SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT 2 65.2% +12.3%
GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A. 1 40.0% +37.7%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18370314 GOLF CLUB HEAD PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO 124d overdue
18379512 HIGH LOFT, LOW CENTER-OF-GRAVITY GOLF CLUB HEADS PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO 17d overdue
18534512 GOLF CLUB HEADS HUNTER, ALVIN A 3d overdue
18586196 GOLF CLUB HEAD WITH EMBEDDED TRACKING MARKERS HUNTER, ALVIN A 7d

Interview Candidates (9)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18370314 GOLF CLUB HEAD PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO 124d overdue
17878661 GOLF CLUB GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A. 60d overdue
18604909 GOLF CLUB PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO 23d overdue
18468304 GOLF CLUB PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO 23d overdue
18379512 HIGH LOFT, LOW CENTER-OF-GRAVITY GOLF CLUB HEADS PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO 17d overdue
18510476 GOLF CLUB HEAD PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO 2d overdue
18606238 PRINTED GOLF BALLS SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT 9d
18531430 GOLF CLUB HEAD SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT 29d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3711 12

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18606238 PRINTED GOLF BALLS SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT 3711 §112 Final Rejection 9d Pending Mar 15, 2024
18604909 GOLF CLUB PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO 3711 Other Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Mar 14, 2024
18595969 GOLF CLUB HUNTER, ALVIN A 3711 Other Non-Final OA 29d Pending Mar 05, 2024
18595140 GOLF CLUB HEAD PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO 3711 Other Non-Final OA 33d Pending Mar 04, 2024
18586196 GOLF CLUB HEAD WITH EMBEDDED TRACKING MARKERS HUNTER, ALVIN A 3711 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Feb 23, 2024
18534512 GOLF CLUB HEADS HUNTER, ALVIN A 3711 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Dec 08, 2023
18531430 GOLF CLUB HEAD SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT 3711 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Dec 06, 2023
18510476 GOLF CLUB HEAD PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO 3711 Other Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2023
18379512 HIGH LOFT, LOW CENTER-OF-GRAVITY GOLF CLUB HEADS PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO 3711 §112 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Oct 12, 2023
18370314 GOLF CLUB HEAD PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO 3711 §103 Non-Final OA 124d overdue Pending Sep 19, 2023
18468304 GOLF CLUB PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO 3711 Other Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Sep 15, 2023
17878661 GOLF CLUB GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A. 3711 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Aug 01, 2022

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