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 • 30 patents granted in the last 365 days
Brown LLC currently manages 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, Richard D. Crosby Jr. Having a single pending action allows the company to focus its resources on a specific prosecution path without the complexity of managing multiple simultaneous office actions. This focused approach can facilitate a more specialized and efficient prosecution process for the pending application.
The portfolio's active prosecution is limited to 1 distinct art unit. Richard D. Crosby Jr. is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. This data reflects a singular point of contact for the company's current patent office interactions. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit and with one examiner suggests a very specific technical focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts. This focused strategy can lead to a more streamlined and efficient examination process.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | 1 | 69.3% | +15.0% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18769869 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRODUCING PRESSWARE | CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18769869 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRODUCING PRESSWARE | CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBrown LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Richard D Crosby Jr. has the most, with 1 of Brown LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
