Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Brita LP is managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution suggests that the company's mechanical engineering filings are being evaluated across different technical groups, which may lead to different examination experiences for each application. The presence of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners ensures that no single individual controls the entire portfolio.
KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for exactly 1 case. The presence of 2 distinct art units means that each pending matter is being reviewed under the specific standards of a different examination unit. This lack of overlap in both examiners and art units indicates that the company's current 2 pending office actions are being treated as separate technical and administrative matters, which can diversify the risk of rejection across the office.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 1 | 50.6% | +34.6% |
| GONZALEZ, MADELINE | 1 | 72.4% | +16.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18185019 | FILTER ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS OF FILTERING WITH THE SAME | GONZALEZ, MADELINE | 15d overdue |
| 18988819 | CONTAINER AND WITHDRAWAL SYSTEM | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18988819 | CONTAINER AND WITHDRAWAL SYSTEM | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 3733 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18185019 | FILTER ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS OF FILTERING WITH THE SAME | GONZALEZ, MADELINE | 1773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Mar 16, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBrita LP has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Andrew Thomas Kirsch has the most, with 1 of Brita LP's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
