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
Brunswick Bowling Products LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, representing a very focused and singular point of engagement with the patent office. This concentration is typical for companies with a specific technical focus in the mechanical or recreational equipment sectors.
PIERCE, WILLIAM M is the busiest examiner for the company. This examiner is managing 1 pending office action, representing the entire current prosecution workload. For the company, this means that the success of its current patent efforts depends entirely on the interaction with this 1 distinct examiner. While this simplifies the management of the 1 pending office action, it also means that the company has no other active applications to provide a baseline for comparison or to diversify its prosecution risk. The focus on 1 distinct art unit further underscores the specialized nature of the company's current intellectual property activity in this technology area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PIERCE, WILLIAM M | 1 | 42.9% | +16.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18635672 | BOWLING BALLS AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | PIERCE, WILLIAM M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18635672 | BOWLING BALLS AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME | PIERCE, WILLIAM M | 3711 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBrunswick Bowling Products LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
William M Pierce has the most, with 1 of Brunswick Bowling Products LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
