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
Breg Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is located within 1 distinct art unit, which points to a specific technical classification for the company's active intellectual property. The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner, Seth Richard Brown, who is the only individual currently reviewing the company's pending matters. This concentration within this specific art unit suggests that the company's current legal focus is narrow and specialized.
Seth Richard Brown is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action under his review. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's current prosecution workload. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit and the individual examiner's history, as the portfolio's immediate progress is tied to this specific interaction. The lack of multiple examiners means there is no internal baseline for comparing examiner behavior within the current portfolio, making external data on Seth Richard Brown particularly valuable for predicting outcomes in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, SETH RICHARD | 1 | 48.9% | +44.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18958154 | CURVED LINKAGE SYSTEM FOR A SHOULDER BRACE | BROWN, SETH RICHARD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18958154 | CURVED LINKAGE SYSTEM FOR A SHOULDER BRACE | BROWN, SETH RICHARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18958154 | CURVED LINKAGE SYSTEM FOR A SHOULDER BRACE | BROWN, SETH RICHARD | 3786 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBreg Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Seth Richard Brown has the most, with 1 of Breg Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
