Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
28 pending office actions • 14 art units • 22 examiners • 0 of 28 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 52 patents granted in the last 365 days
Braun GmbH is managing 26 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 26 pending office actions are assigned to 21 distinct examiners, which shows that a few examiners are handling multiple matters. This distribution of 26 pending office actions among 21 distinct examiners indicates that while most actions are handled by different individuals, there is minor concentration within the portfolio.
The portfolio is spread across 13 distinct art units. SEAN M MICHALSKI is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. With 26 pending office actions and 21 distinct examiners across 13 distinct art units, the company faces a range of examiner interactions and technical specialties. For practitioners, this requires a strategy that accounts for 21 distinct examiner styles across 13 distinct art units. The concentration of 2 pending office actions under SEAN M MICHALSKI is one of the few points of examiner overlap in this portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 10 (36%) |
| §102 only | 2 (7%) |
| §112 only | 2 (7%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 13 (46%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MICHALSKI, SEAN M | 3 | 53.1% | +13.2% |
| BARKER, DAYTON HYUN JIN | 2 | 71.4% | +40.0% |
| WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 2 | 34.5% | +79.2% |
| LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | 2 | 54.9% | +30.9% |
| CORNETT, ROBERT D | 2 | 39.2% | +44.4% |
| WENDMAGEGN, GIRUMSEW | 1 | 76.9% | +21.2% |
| ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 48.3% | +58.1% |
| POPESCU, GABRIEL VICTOR | 1 | 63.4% | +30.9% |
| HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | 1 | 67.5% | +44.3% |
| TAT, BINH C | 1 | 87.3% | +14.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18212794 | POWER SUPPLY CHARGING DEVICE, KIT, AND OPERATING METHOD | TAT, BINH C | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18201356 | CLEANING SECTION FOR AN ORAL HYGIENE DEVICE AND ORAL HYGIENE DEVICE | WALTERS, RYAN J | 93d overdue |
| 18199400 | PERSONAL CARE DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUCH PERSONAL CARE DEVICE | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 16d overdue |
| 19015097 | ORAL SCANNER SYSTEM | ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | — |
| 19015007 | ORAL SCANNER SYSTEM | BARKER, DAYTON HYUN JIN | — |
| 19015080 | ORAL SCANNER SYSTEM | BARKER, DAYTON HYUN JIN | — |
| 19015029 | ORAL SCANNER SYSTEM | POPESCU, GABRIEL VICTOR | — |
| 18119394 | ELECTRIC BEARD TRIMMER | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | — |
| 18103553 | ATTACHMENT FOR AN ORAL CARE DEVICE HANDLE | KARLS, SHAY LYNN | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18199400 | PERSONAL CARE DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUCH PERSONAL CARE DEVICE | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 16d overdue |
| 19015062 | ORAL SCANNER SYSTEM | WENDMAGEGN, GIRUMSEW | 28d |
| 18760109 | ELECTRIC SHAVER | MICHALSKI, SEAN M | 42d |
| 19086456 | PERSONAL CARE DEVICE | MICHALSKI, SEAN M | — |
| 19015097 | ORAL SCANNER SYSTEM | ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | — |
| 19015007 | ORAL SCANNER SYSTEM | BARKER, DAYTON HYUN JIN | — |
| 19015080 | ORAL SCANNER SYSTEM | BARKER, DAYTON HYUN JIN | — |
| 19015029 | ORAL SCANNER SYSTEM | POPESCU, GABRIEL VICTOR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 10 |
| 3665 | 2 |
| 2484 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 2851 | 1 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19086456 | PERSONAL CARE DEVICE | MICHALSKI, SEAN M | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19015062 | ORAL SCANNER SYSTEM | WENDMAGEGN, GIRUMSEW | 2484 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 19015097 | ORAL SCANNER SYSTEM | ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | 3798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 19015007 | ORAL SCANNER SYSTEM | BARKER, DAYTON HYUN JIN | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 19015080 | ORAL SCANNER SYSTEM | BARKER, DAYTON HYUN JIN | 3797 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 19015029 | ORAL SCANNER SYSTEM | POPESCU, GABRIEL VICTOR | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18884291 | COUPLING SECTION FOR PERSONAL-CARE IMPLEMENT AND PROCESS OF MAKING SAME, INCLUDING TOLERANCE COMPENSATION | HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18760109 | ELECTRIC SHAVER | MICHALSKI, SEAN M | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18757038 | SYSTEM COMPRISING A PERSONAL CARE DEVICE SUCH AS ELECTRIC SHAVER AND HANGER FOR SUCH DEVICE | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18212794 | POWER SUPPLY CHARGING DEVICE, KIT, AND OPERATING METHOD | TAT, BINH C | 2851 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18208948 | PERSONAL CARE DEVICE WITH A RECHARGEABLE ENERGY SOURCE | JEPPSON, PAMELA J | 2859 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 18201356 | CLEANING SECTION FOR AN ORAL HYGIENE DEVICE AND ORAL HYGIENE DEVICE | WALTERS, RYAN J | 3799 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 93d overdue | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18199396 | PERSONAL CARE DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUCH PERSONAL CARE DEVICE | MICHALSKI, SEAN M | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
| 18199400 | PERSONAL CARE DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUCH PERSONAL CARE DEVICE | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 3724 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
| 18199398 | HAIR CUTTING DEVICE WITH DISPLAY | LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
| 18196111 | METHOD OF GLUING METAL PARTS | PAGE, HANA C | 1745 | §103 | Final Rejection | 78d overdue | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
| 18119394 | ELECTRIC BEARD TRIMMER | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 3724 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 09, 2023 |
| 18103553 | ATTACHMENT FOR AN ORAL CARE DEVICE HANDLE | KARLS, SHAY LYNN | 3723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2023 |
| 17875486 | PERSONAL CARE DEVICE | CORNETT, ROBERT D | 3724 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2022 |
| 17875498 | PERSONAL CARE DEVICE | LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | 3724 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2022 |
| 17850809 | HAIR CUTTING KIT | CORNETT, ROBERT D | 3724 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2022 |
| 16364713 | PERSONAL CARE DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF | DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2019 |
| 18935774 | FRONT SEAT QUICK RELEASE ARMREST | BRINDLEY, TIMOTHY J | 3636 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18733203 | AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSAL WHEELCHAIR SECUREMENT DEVICE FOR WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | HORNER, MINATO LEE | 3665 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
| 18665684 | PERCEPTION-BASED ALERT SYSTEMS AND CONTROLLERS FOR DETECTING SAFE USE CONDITIONS OF A WHEELCHAIR ACCESS DEVICE IN A WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE VEHICLE | DEL VALLE, LUIS GERARDO | 3666 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18436863 | PERCEPTION-BASED OBSTRUCTION DETECTION SYSTEM FOR A RAMP IN A WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE VEHICLE | THOMPSON, JOSEPH LEIGH | 3665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18538707 | GLIDER AND SUPPORT PLATE FOR ACCESSORY ATTACHMENT TO FLOOR TRACK | ADAMS, PHILIP CHARLES | 3612 | §103 | Final Rejection | 48d | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18362637 | WHEELCHAIR DOCKING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF | GUTMAN, HILARY L | 3614 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2023 |
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