Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
W.c. Bradley Co. has 7 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Those matters involve 7 distinct examiners but only 3 distinct art units, indicating broad examiner distribution within a more limited set of technical examination groups.
BASICHAS, ALFRED is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner handles more than one of the pending actions, so prosecution management should emphasize matter-specific preparation while using the art-unit concentration to identify recurring technical or procedural themes.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (43%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BASICHAS, ALFRED | 1 | 72.2% | +3.9% |
| LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | 1 | 59.3% | +57.6% |
| LAU, JASON | 1 | 54.1% | +15.9% |
| LEFF, STEVEN N | 1 | 41.4% | +8.4% |
| MCCORMICK, CHRISTOPHER JORDAN | 1 | — | — |
| DANG, KET D | 1 | 61.6% | +37.9% |
| CAMPBELL, THOR S | 1 | 75.1% | +1.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18675986 | GRAVITY FED SMOKER | LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | — |
| 18538660 | INDUCTION GRIDDLES | MCCORMICK, CHRISTOPHER JORDAN | — |
| 18525114 | INDUCTION COILS FOR COOKING SURFACES | DANG, KET D | — |
| 18376924 | INDUCTION GRILL | CAMPBELL, THOR S | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18656034 | COMBUSTION CHAMBER FOR PELLET GRILLS | LAU, JASON | 182d overdue |
| 18675986 | GRAVITY FED SMOKER | LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | — |
| 18525114 | INDUCTION COILS FOR COOKING SURFACES | DANG, KET D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 3 |
| 3761 | 3 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18827280 | CHARCOAL GRILL, COMPONENTS, AND SYSTEM | BASICHAS, ALFRED | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18675986 | GRAVITY FED SMOKER | LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | 3762 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18656034 | COMBUSTION CHAMBER FOR PELLET GRILLS | LAU, JASON | 3762 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 182d overdue | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18420442 | ZONAL ELECTRIC GRILL | LEFF, STEVEN N | 1792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18538660 | INDUCTION GRIDDLES | MCCORMICK, CHRISTOPHER JORDAN | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18525114 | INDUCTION COILS FOR COOKING SURFACES | DANG, KET D | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18376924 | INDUCTION GRILL | CAMPBELL, THOR S | 3761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 05, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialW.c. Bradley Co. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 7 examiners.
Alfred Basichas has the most, with 1 of W.c. Bradley Co.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
