Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Toca Football Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, indicating that the portfolio's prosecution is not concentrated under a single reviewer. This distribution across 2 distinct examiners requires the applicant to manage two different sets of examiner expectations and communication styles.
The prosecution is distributed across 2 distinct art units, which suggests that the company's mechanical innovations may fall into different specialized categories at the USPTO. SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner only holds 1 pending office action, the workload is evenly balanced between the 2 distinct examiners currently active.
Practitioners should be aware that the involvement of 2 distinct art units may lead to different average pendency rates for the 2 pending office actions. Because no single examiner or art unit dominates the workload, the prosecution strategy must be tailored to the specific requirements of both SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT and the other assigned official. This balanced approach ensures that the portfolio's progress is not dependent on the performance of a single administrative unit.
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 | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CADY, MATTHEW ALAN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 1 | 65.3% | +12.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18501005 | Systems and Methods for Determining Operability Status of a Ball-Throwing Machine Through Machine Learning Techniques | CADY, MATTHEW ALAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18500995 | Systems and Methods for Determining Ball-Throwing Machine Operability | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 49d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2145 | 1 |
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18501005 | Systems and Methods for Determining Operability Status of a Ball-Throwing Machine Through Machine Learning Techniques | CADY, MATTHEW ALAN | 2145 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
| 18500995 | Systems and Methods for Determining Ball-Throwing Machine Operability | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 3711 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialToca Football Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Matthew Alan Cady has the most, with 1 of Toca Football Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
