Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
True Temper Sports Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, yet they are both contained within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while the company's innovations in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering are being reviewed by different individuals, they fall under the same technical classification at the patent office. This concentration in 1 art unit suggests a focused technical scope for the current pending applications.
The busiest examiner, DENNIS, MICHAEL DAVID, is managing 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners in total, the workload is divided so that each examiner handles 1 pending matter. This distribution allows for multiple perspectives on the company's technology within the same administrative framework of the 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners can observe that the prosecution of these 2 active matters is being conducted through a single technical group despite the involvement of 2 different examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DENNIS, MICHAEL DAVID | 1 | 55.3% | +30.0% |
| GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A. | 1 | 40.2% | +36.7% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17799821 | SPORTS EQUIPMENT WITH WOUND FIBER | GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A. | 13d |
| 18031780 | STEPLESS GOLF SHAFT WITH MULTIPLE TAPER RATES IN MID SECTION | DENNIS, MICHAEL DAVID | 19d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18031780 | STEPLESS GOLF SHAFT WITH MULTIPLE TAPER RATES IN MID SECTION | DENNIS, MICHAEL DAVID | 3711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Apr 13, 2023 |
| 17799821 | SPORTS EQUIPMENT WITH WOUND FIBER | GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A. | 3711 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Aug 15, 2022 |
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