Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bounce Curl LLC currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both actions are located within a single distinct art unit, suggesting a very specific technical focus for this company's patent filings. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual. This one-to-one ratio between actions and examiners is notable even for a portfolio of this small size. For practitioners, this suggests that while they must adapt to 2 different examiner styles, the technical standards and precedents of the single art unit will likely apply to both pending cases.
HORTON, ANDREW ALAN is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since there are only 2 pending actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is split evenly between the two individuals. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit means that while the examiners are different, they likely work within the same technical department at the patent office. For practitioners, this means that each of the 2 pending office actions must be handled as a separate matter, as they are being reviewed by different examiners. However, the single art unit provides a consistent technical framework for both cases, which may simplify the overall prosecution strategy compared to portfolios spread across multiple units.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | 1 | 80.7% | +17.8% |
| GUIDOTTI, LAURA COLE | 1 | 62.1% | +29.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19320801 | HAIR BRUSH | GUIDOTTI, LAURA COLE | 22d overdue |
| 19349474 | HAIR BRUSH | HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19320801 | HAIR BRUSH | GUIDOTTI, LAURA COLE | 22d overdue |
| 19349474 | HAIR BRUSH | HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19349474 | HAIR BRUSH | HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | 3723 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19320801 | HAIR BRUSH | GUIDOTTI, LAURA COLE | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Sep 05, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialBounce Curl LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Andrew Alan Horton has the most, with 1 of Bounce Curl LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
