Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Brunswick Corporation

12 pending office actions • 8 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 142 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
11
Medium (92%)
1
Easy (8%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (83%)
§102 only1 (8%)
§112 only1 (8%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

2
Life Sciences
17% of docket
2
Information Tech
17% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
67% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DEROSE, VOLVICK 2 90.1% +10.7%
BURGESS, MARC R 2 34.2% +22.1%
IVEY, DANA DESHAWN 1 89.2% +6.9%
HORNER, MINATO LEE 1 66.7% +0.0%
LAGMAN, FREDERICK LYNDON 1 82.9% +11.1%
VENNE, DANIEL V 1 71.1% +15.2%
LINHARDT, LAURA E 1 69.1% +22.1%
REDA, MATTHEW J 1 55.2% +28.9%
ARCIERO, ADAM A 1 65.0% -17.7%
LEE, EDMUND H 1 69.2% +17.6%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18406863 MARINE DRIVES AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR COOLING ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS OF MARINE DRIVES LAGMAN, FREDERICK LYNDON 8d overdue
18734665 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WAKING POWERED DEVICES OF A MARINE VESSEL DEROSE, VOLVICK 12d
18902297 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING AUTHENTICATION FOR OPERATING FUNCTIONS OF MARINE VESSELS DEROSE, VOLVICK 26d
18440432 JOYSTICK FOR CONTROLLING MARINE PROPULSION IVEY, DANA DESHAWN 28d

Interview Candidates (9)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue 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
17507365 MOLDED PRODUCTS AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAKING MOLDED PRODUCTS LEE, EDMUND H 18d overdue
18406863 MARINE DRIVES AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR COOLING ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS OF MARINE DRIVES LAGMAN, FREDERICK LYNDON 8d overdue
18080092 MARINE BATTERY WITH INTERNAL DIGITAL SERCURITY LINHARDT, LAURA E 4d overdue
18479329 TRIM TAB ACTUATOR ASSEMBLIES AND BRACKETS AND METHODS THEREOF VENNE, DANIEL V 6d
18734665 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WAKING POWERED DEVICES OF A MARINE VESSEL DEROSE, VOLVICK 12d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3615 3
2176 2
3665 2
3662 1
3678 1
3663 1
1727 1
1744 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18902297 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING AUTHENTICATION FOR OPERATING FUNCTIONS OF MARINE VESSELS DEROSE, VOLVICK 2176 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Sep 30, 2024
18734665 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WAKING POWERED DEVICES OF A MARINE VESSEL DEROSE, VOLVICK 2176 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Jun 05, 2024
18440432 JOYSTICK FOR CONTROLLING MARINE PROPULSION IVEY, DANA DESHAWN 3662 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Feb 13, 2024
18437832 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING BETWEEN POWERING COMPONENTS OF VEHICLES VIA FIRST OR SECOND POWER SOURCES HORNER, MINATO LEE 3665 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Feb 09, 2024
18406863 MARINE DRIVES AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR COOLING ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS OF MARINE DRIVES LAGMAN, FREDERICK LYNDON 3678 §102 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jan 08, 2024
18479329 TRIM TAB ACTUATOR ASSEMBLIES AND BRACKETS AND METHODS THEREOF VENNE, DANIEL V 3615 §112 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Oct 02, 2023
18097327 ELECTRIC STERN DRIVES BURGESS, MARC R 3615 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2023
18080092 MARINE BATTERY WITH INTERNAL DIGITAL SERCURITY LINHARDT, LAURA E 3663 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2022
17985676 ELECTRIC MARINE PROPULSION SYSTEM BURGESS, MARC R 3615 §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 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Aug 22, 2022
17716732 MARINE BATTERY SAFETY SYSTEM AND METHOD ARCIERO, ADAM A 1727 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Apr 08, 2022
17507365 MOLDED PRODUCTS AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAKING MOLDED PRODUCTS LEE, EDMUND H 1744 §103 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Oct 21, 2021

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