It's possible to pattern objects along an arbitrary path in the modeling environment, but it seems impossible to pattern sketch objects along an arbitrary path within sketch.
To satiate the crazed work-arounders - obvious work-around is to extrude the sketched objects then pattern those along a path then intersect them with the sketch (if necessary) or just use them in place, but it'd be great to just be able to do that within the sketch environment (if only to ensure symmetry of the patterning operations between modeling and sketching).