Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
17 pending office actions • 7 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days
Under Armour Inc. has 17 pending office actions concentrated in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution workload is spread across 7 distinct art units, reflecting the breadth of the company's technical filings. With 17 distinct examiners assigned to these pending actions, each active matter is currently being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution suggests that the company's patent strategy is not concentrated in any single examiner's hands.
MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending action. Because the 17 pending office actions are divided among so many distinct examiners, the company faces a wide range of examination styles rather than a concentrated group of decision-makers. The presence of distinct examiners across 7 distinct art units highlights a fragmented prosecution landscape that requires individual attention for each application to navigate the varied preferences of the assigned examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (18%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 11 (65%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 1 | 52.9% | +28.0% |
| WEIS, RAQUEL M. | 1 | 44.1% | +61.5% |
| TRIEU, TIMOTHY K | 1 | 62.3% | +54.8% |
| HUYNH, KHOA D | 1 | 18.1% | +20.7% |
| WANG, ALEXANDER A | 1 | 66.2% | +20.7% |
| NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 1 | 43.2% | +42.4% |
| WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1 | 51.5% | +50.4% |
| BRAVO, JOCELYN MARY | 1 | 50.1% | +45.2% |
| VARGOT, MATHIEU D | 1 | 62.4% | +20.9% |
| HUANG, GRACE | 1 | 56.8% | +55.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19009525 | ARTICLE OF FOOTWEAR WITH GRIPPING PADS ON A COMPOSITE UPPER | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 138d overdue |
| 18516477 | ARTICLE OF APPAREL INCLUDING FABRIC HAVING INTERCONNECTED CELL STRUCTURE | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 15d overdue |
| 19051719 | Sole Structure With Bottom-Loaded Compression | HUYNH, KHOA D | 3d overdue |
| 18883868 | ARTICLE OF FOOTWEAR | HUANG, GRACE | 6d |
| 18443824 | ARTICLE OF APPAREL INCLUDING GRASP-RESISTANT PANELS | JOHNSON, JENNA LEIGH | 15d |
| 19299897 | Article of Footwear with Elastic Heel Support | WEIS, RAQUEL M. | 35d |
| 19337293 | BACKPACK INCLUDING SUSPENSION STRAP | MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | — |
| 19287057 | APPAREL WITH MULTI-LAYER FABRIC PANEL | TRIEU, TIMOTHY K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19009525 | ARTICLE OF FOOTWEAR WITH GRIPPING PADS ON A COMPOSITE UPPER | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 138d overdue |
| 19004988 | APPAREL FABRIC WITH HEAT RETENTION | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 19d overdue |
| 19051719 | Sole Structure With Bottom-Loaded Compression | HUYNH, KHOA D | 3d overdue |
| 18883868 | ARTICLE OF FOOTWEAR | HUANG, GRACE | 6d |
| 19299897 | Article of Footwear with Elastic Heel Support | WEIS, RAQUEL M. | 35d |
| 19337293 | BACKPACK INCLUDING SUSPENSION STRAP | MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | — |
| 19287057 | APPAREL WITH MULTI-LAYER FABRIC PANEL | TRIEU, TIMOTHY K | — |
| 19031790 | METHOD OF FORMING AN ARTICLE OF FOOTWEAR | WANG, ALEXANDER A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 8 |
| 1789 | 3 |
| 3734 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 1786 | 1 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19337293 | BACKPACK INCLUDING SUSPENSION STRAP | MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 3734 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2025 |
| 19299897 | Article of Footwear with Elastic Heel Support | WEIS, RAQUEL M. | 3732 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19287057 | APPAREL WITH MULTI-LAYER FABRIC PANEL | TRIEU, TIMOTHY K | 3732 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2025 |
| 19051719 | Sole Structure With Bottom-Loaded Compression | HUYNH, KHOA D | 3732 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19031790 | METHOD OF FORMING AN ARTICLE OF FOOTWEAR | WANG, ALEXANDER A | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
| 19009525 | ARTICLE OF FOOTWEAR WITH GRIPPING PADS ON A COMPOSITE UPPER | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 3732 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 138d overdue | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 19004988 | APPAREL FABRIC WITH HEAT RETENTION | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1717 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18964979 | ATHLETIC BRA | BRAVO, JOCELYN MARY | 3732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18931357 | ARTICLE OF FOOTWEAR | VARGOT, MATHIEU D | 1742 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18883868 | ARTICLE OF FOOTWEAR | HUANG, GRACE | 3732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18772016 | ARTICLE OF FOOTWEAR WITH COMPOSITE UPPER | STEELE, JENNIFER A | 1789 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18443824 | ARTICLE OF APPAREL INCLUDING GRASP-RESISTANT PANELS | JOHNSON, JENNA LEIGH | 1789 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18430029 | Method of Making Laminate Panel with Auxetic Layer | CHOI, PETER Y | 1786 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18516477 | ARTICLE OF APPAREL INCLUDING FABRIC HAVING INTERCONNECTED CELL STRUCTURE | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1789 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18360339 | FOOTWEAR INCLUDING MIDSOLE WITH EMBROIDERED TEXTILE ELEMENT | HAUTH, GALEN H | 1744 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 18147938 | KNIT FABRIC FOR APPAREL | LYNCH, MEGAN E | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
| 17962530 | ARTICLES WITH STRUCTURES FORMED FROM SEQUINS | FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | 3732 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2022 |
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