Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Brooks Automation Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to examiner TIGHE, BRENDAN P, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The portfolio currently involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current pending workload is entirely concentrated under a single point of review at the USPTO.
Because the portfolio consists of 1 pending office action across 1 art unit, the prosecution strategy is focused. There is no distribution of cases across different examiners or departments, meaning the outcome of the current pending portfolio depends on the decisions of TIGHE, BRENDAN P, who handles 1 pending action. The action in 1 art unit represents the company's active engagement with the office in this sector. This concentration ensures that prosecution is not fragmented across different USPTO divisions at this time. The presence of a pending action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area suggests a specific technical focus for the current workload.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TIGHE, BRENDAN P | 1 | 76.2% | +19.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18498873 | SUBSTRATE TRANSPORT APPARATUS WITH MULTIPLE MOVABLE ARMS UTILIZING A MECHANICAL SWITCH MECHANISM | TIGHE, BRENDAN P | 112d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18498873 | SUBSTRATE TRANSPORT APPARATUS WITH MULTIPLE MOVABLE ARMS UTILIZING A MECHANICAL SWITCH MECHANISM | TIGHE, BRENDAN P | 112d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3652 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18498873 | SUBSTRATE TRANSPORT APPARATUS WITH MULTIPLE MOVABLE ARMS UTILIZING A MECHANICAL SWITCH MECHANISM | TIGHE, BRENDAN P | 3652 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 112d overdue | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBrooks Automation Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Brendan P Tighe has the most, with 1 of Brooks Automation Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
