Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Velasa Sports Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. MARKMAN, MAKENA is the busiest examiner, managing the pending office action.
The prosecution is highly focused, with a distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner involved in the company's current filings. Since MARKMAN, MAKENA is the examiner for the 1 pending office action, the company's progress in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area depends on this individual's review. This concentration allows for a dedicated prosecution strategy but also means that the company's outcomes are tied to the specific tendencies of the examiner.
Practitioners should note that the pending office action represents the entirety of the company's active workload in this profile. The involvement of only a distinct art unit indicates that the subject matter is localized within a specific technical group. Successfully navigating the 1 pending office action will require a thorough understanding of the requirements set forth by MARKMAN, MAKENA and the standards of the art unit involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARKMAN, MAKENA | 1 | 59.8% | +38.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18879656 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR SKATE BLADE ALIGNMENT IN A SKATE SHARPENING SYSTEM | MARKMAN, MAKENA | 3d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18879656 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR SKATE BLADE ALIGNMENT IN A SKATE SHARPENING SYSTEM | MARKMAN, MAKENA | 3d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18879656 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR SKATE BLADE ALIGNMENT IN A SKATE SHARPENING SYSTEM | MARKMAN, MAKENA | 3723 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
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