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
VH Footwear Inc. currently manages a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company has 1 pending office action, which is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. This focus indicates that the company's current prosecution efforts are concentrated on a specific application within this technical field. The pending activity is localized within a distinct art unit, suggesting a specialized technical review by the patent office. PRANGE, SHARON M is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing the busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only a pending office action in the portfolio, this examiner handles the entirety of the company's current pending workload. The presence of the distinct examiner and the art unit for the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector points to a focused prosecution strategy. This arrangement allows the company to engage directly with the assigned examiner on the specific technical merits of the pending case.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRANGE, SHARON M | 1 | 54.2% | +46.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19202643 | SKATE BOOT WITH STIFFENING CUFF INSERT | PRANGE, SHARON M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19202643 | SKATE BOOT WITH STIFFENING CUFF INSERT | PRANGE, SHARON M | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialVH Footwear Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sharon M Prange has the most, with 1 of VH Footwear Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
