Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 1 client • 3 examiners • 2 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
KLEINBERG & LERNER, LLP focuses on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering, with 1032 career applications. The firm has a resolved allowance rate pct of 93.62. There are 5 pending office actions currently in the docket. The 93.62 resolved allowance rate pct reflects the success rate for the 1032 applications the firm has handled. The 5 pending office actions are fewer than the career applications.
The avg office actions per allowance is 1.01. This metric shows the average number of office actions the firm receives before an application is allowed. The 1.01 avg office actions per allowance suggests that the firm often secures an allowance with minimal interactions. This efficiency, combined with the 93.62 resolved allowance rate pct, makes its prosecution profile in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering distinctive. Practitioners can use these figures to understand the typical path to allowance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting only | 3 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NELSON, THORNTON C | 3 | 95.4% | +4.8% |
| BAYS, MARIE D | 1 | 74.5% | +19.5% |
| BROWN-LORRIG, CHRISTEN PILAR | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29963853 | SHOE SOLE | NELSON, THORNTON C | 15d |
| 29963339 | SHOE SOLE | NELSON, THORNTON C | 15d |
| 29963004 | SHOE SOLE | NELSON, THORNTON C | 15d |
| 29960071 | SHOE | BROWN-LORRIG, CHRISTEN PILAR | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19353548 | FOOTWEAR STRAP AND FOOTWEAR HAVING THE SAME | BAYS, MARIE D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19353548 | FOOTWEAR STRAP AND FOOTWEAR HAVING THE SAME | BAYS, MARIE D | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II | 5 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2912 | 4 |
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19353548 | FOOTWEAR STRAP AND FOOTWEAR HAVING THE SAME | Skechers U.S.A., Inc. Ii | BAYS, MARIE D | 3732 | §102§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
| 29963853 | SHOE SOLE | Skechers U.S.A., Inc. Ii | NELSON, THORNTON C | 2912 | DP | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 29963339 | SHOE SOLE | Skechers U.S.A., Inc. Ii | NELSON, THORNTON C | 2912 | DP | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 29963004 | SHOE SOLE | Skechers U.S.A., Inc. Ii | NELSON, THORNTON C | 2912 | DP | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 29960071 | SHOE | Skechers U.S.A., Inc. Ii | BROWN-LORRIG, CHRISTEN PILAR | 2912 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
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