Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.

20 pending office actions • 1 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 53 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

20
Total Pending OAs
16
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 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.

5
Hard (25%)
10
Medium (50%)
5
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (30%)
§112 only2 (10%)
Double-patenting only3 (15%)
Double-patenting + other4 (20%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (25%)

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
15
Mechanical / Eng
75% of docket
5
Business / Other
25% 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.

200 h
Manual time on pending OAs
40 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
70 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO 7 83.0% +15.6%
HUNTER, ALVIN A 4 85.9% +2.7%
SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT 4 65.3% +12.3%
PIERCE, WILLIAM M 2 42.6% +16.4%
GORDEN, RAEANN 1 83.0% -4.6%
STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN 1 39.0% +35.4%
GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A. 1 39.5% +36.7%

Quick Wins (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18370314 GOLF CLUB HEAD PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO 124d overdue
18379512 HIGH LOFT, LOW CENTER-OF-GRAVITY GOLF CLUB HEADS PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO 17d overdue
18936651 GOLF CLUB HEAD HUNTER, ALVIN A
18789416 MULTI-PIECE GOLF CLUB HEAD PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO
18783125 LASER ABLATION PROCESS AND CORRESPONDING GOLF CLUB HEAD MADE BY THE SAME PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO
18752422 GOLF CLUB HEAD PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO
18750180 GOLF CLUB HUNTER, ALVIN A
18736646 GOLF CLUB HUNTER, ALVIN A

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18510476 GOLF CLUB HEAD PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO 2d overdue
18531430 GOLF CLUB HEAD SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT 29d
18946053 GOLF BALL WITH SOFTER FEEL AND HIGHER IRON SPIN GORDEN, RAEANN
18943832 GOLF CLUB HAVING IMPACT SENSOR PIERCE, WILLIAM M
18506843 GOLF CLUB HEAD HUNTER, ALVIN A

Interview Candidates (15)

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
18379512 HIGH LOFT, LOW CENTER-OF-GRAVITY GOLF CLUB HEADS PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO 17d overdue
18510476 GOLF CLUB HEAD PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO 2d overdue
18531430 GOLF CLUB HEAD SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT 29d
18943832 GOLF CLUB HAVING IMPACT SENSOR PIERCE, WILLIAM M
18830380 GOLF CLUB HEADS SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT
18825926 GOLF CLUB HEAD SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3711 15

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18946053 GOLF BALL WITH SOFTER FEEL AND HIGHER IRON SPIN GORDEN, RAEANN §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 13, 2024
18943832 GOLF CLUB HAVING IMPACT SENSOR PIERCE, WILLIAM M §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 11, 2024
18936651 GOLF CLUB HEAD HUNTER, ALVIN A §103DP Non-Final OA Pending Nov 04, 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
18822842 GOLF CLUB SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT 3711 DP Non-Final OA Pending Sep 03, 2024
18817539 IRON TYPE GOLF CLUB HEAD AND SET STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN 3711 §103DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 28, 2024
18789416 MULTI-PIECE GOLF CLUB HEAD PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO 3711 §103 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
18752422 GOLF CLUB HEAD PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO 3711 §112Other Non-Final OA Pending Jun 24, 2024
18750180 GOLF CLUB HUNTER, ALVIN A §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 21, 2024
18736646 GOLF CLUB HUNTER, ALVIN A §112DP Non-Final OA Pending Jun 07, 2024
18662372 GOLF CLUB HEADS PIERCE, WILLIAM M 3711 DP Non-Final OA Pending May 13, 2024
18647379 GOLF CLUB HEAD AND GOLF CLUB PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO 3711 DP Non-Final OA Pending Apr 26, 2024
18531430 GOLF CLUB HEAD SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT 3711 §103§112 Final Rejection 29d Pending Dec 06, 2023
18510476 GOLF CLUB HEAD PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO 3711 §103§112 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2023
18506843 GOLF CLUB HEAD HUNTER, ALVIN A 3711 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 10, 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
17878661 GOLF CLUB GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A. 3711 §103 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Aug 01, 2022

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