Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 154 patents granted in the last 365 days
Brunswick Corporation is managing 9 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed across 4 distinct art units and involve 8 distinct examiners. The presence of 4 art units indicates that the company's filings are concentrated in specific technical clusters, likely reflecting core product lines or research areas within the broader transportation and mechanical sectors.
MARC R BURGESS is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 2 pending actions. The fact that 8 examiners are handling 9 actions indicates that nearly every matter is being reviewed by a different individual, with MARC R BURGESS being the only examiner overseeing 2 cases. This distribution suggests a relatively decentralized prosecution environment where the company must manage relationships and expectations across a variety of examination styles while maintaining consistency within its 4 primary art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURGESS, MARC R | 2 | 33.9% | +24.1% |
| HAYES, JOVON E | 1 | 84.5% | +9.9% |
| FIX, THOMAS S | 1 | 72.1% | +16.3% |
| IVEY, DANA DESHAWN | 1 | 88.5% | +6.4% |
| PELTON, NATHANIEL R | 1 | 74.5% | +19.0% |
| OMAR, AHMED H | 1 | 75.1% | +14.1% |
| REDA, MATTHEW J | 1 | 54.9% | +28.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18440432 | JOYSTICK FOR CONTROLLING MARINE PROPULSION | IVEY, DANA DESHAWN | 28d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17985676 | ELECTRIC MARINE PROPULSION SYSTEM | BURGESS, MARC R | 89d overdue |
| 18097327 | ELECTRIC STERN DRIVES | BURGESS, MARC R | 36d overdue |
| 18734596 | VALVES FOR COOLING SYSTEMS OF MARINE DRIVES | HAYES, JOVON E | — |
| 18669440 | LINEAR ACTUATOR WITH COVERING | FIX, THOMAS S | — |
| 18504505 | BATTERY MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRIC MARINE PROPULSION | PELTON, NATHANIEL R | — |
| 18452240 | VEHICLE ELECTRICAL CONTROL SYSTEM WITH DUAL VOLTAGE / DUAL APPLICATION BATTERY | OMAR, AHMED H | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17985676 | ELECTRIC MARINE PROPULSION SYSTEM | BURGESS, MARC R | 89d overdue |
| 17892882 | ELECTRIC MARINE PROPULSION SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD WITH VOLTAGE ADAPTATION | REDA, MATTHEW J | 49d overdue |
| 18097327 | ELECTRIC STERN DRIVES | BURGESS, MARC R | 36d overdue |
| 18669440 | LINEAR ACTUATOR WITH COVERING | FIX, THOMAS S | — |
| 18504505 | BATTERY MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRIC MARINE PROPULSION | PELTON, NATHANIEL R | — |
| 18452240 | VEHICLE ELECTRICAL CONTROL SYSTEM WITH DUAL VOLTAGE / DUAL APPLICATION BATTERY | OMAR, AHMED H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 2 |
| 3618 | 1 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18734596 | VALVES FOR COOLING SYSTEMS OF MARINE DRIVES | HAYES, JOVON E | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18669440 | LINEAR ACTUATOR WITH COVERING | FIX, THOMAS S | 3618 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18440432 | JOYSTICK FOR CONTROLLING MARINE PROPULSION | IVEY, DANA DESHAWN | 3662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18504505 | BATTERY MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRIC MARINE PROPULSION | PELTON, NATHANIEL R | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 18452240 | VEHICLE ELECTRICAL CONTROL SYSTEM WITH DUAL VOLTAGE / DUAL APPLICATION BATTERY | OMAR, AHMED H | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2023 |
| 18097327 | ELECTRIC STERN DRIVES | BURGESS, MARC R | 3615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Jan 16, 2023 |
| 17985676 | ELECTRIC MARINE PROPULSION SYSTEM | BURGESS, MARC R | 3615 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 89d overdue | Pending | Nov 11, 2022 |
| 17892882 | ELECTRIC MARINE PROPULSION SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD WITH VOLTAGE ADAPTATION | REDA, MATTHEW J | 3665 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Aug 22, 2022 |
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