Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 3 clients • 4 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Brick Gentry Law Firm specializes in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The firm has a career total of 197 applications. Currently, there are 6 pending office actions, showing a small but active docket.
The firm achieves a high resolved allowance rate of 90.71 percent. However, this requires an average of 4.41 office actions per allowance. This high average indicates an intensive prosecution process, which is common in the complex biotech and pharma sectors. The 90.71 percent allowance rate demonstrates the firm's effectiveness in eventually securing patent rights despite the high number of office actions. With 6 pending actions, the firm's current docket is focused. Practitioners should expect a longer prosecution timeline given the 4.41 average office actions per allowance. The 197 career applications provide the context for these high-success, high-effort metrics.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED | 2 | 87.4% | +12.2% |
| PANG, ROGER L | 1 | 89.2% | +7.1% |
| GRAVINI, STEPHEN MICHAEL | 1 | 77.9% | +19.2% |
| DHARITHREESAN, NIDHI | 1 | 39.6% | +36.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18740733 | FIELD CONDITIONING AND PRESERVATION OF DICOTYLEDONOUS POLLEN | IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED | 9d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19004976 | TRUCK BED MAT FOR GOOSENECK OR FIFTH WHEEL TRAILER HITCHES | PANG, ROGER L | — |
| 17500644 | Pollination Predictor System and Method | DHARITHREESAN, NIDHI | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18740733 | FIELD CONDITIONING AND PRESERVATION OF DICOTYLEDONOUS POLLEN | IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED | 9d overdue |
| 18740880 | RICE SEED PRODUCTION | IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED | 5d overdue |
| 18413685 | POACEAE POLLEN PRESERVATION AND STABILIZATION METHOD | GRAVINI, STEPHEN MICHAEL | — |
| 17500644 | Pollination Predictor System and Method | DHARITHREESAN, NIDHI | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| PowerPollen, Inc. | 2 |
| Accelerated AG Technologies, LLC | 2 |
| Master Tool & Mfg., Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1662 | 2 |
| 3655 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19004976 | TRUCK BED MAT FOR GOOSENECK OR FIFTH WHEEL TRAILER HITCHES | Master Tool & Mfg., Inc. | PANG, ROGER L | 3655 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18740880 | RICE SEED PRODUCTION | PowerPollen, Inc. | IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED | 1662 | Other | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18740733 | FIELD CONDITIONING AND PRESERVATION OF DICOTYLEDONOUS POLLEN | PowerPollen, Inc. | IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED | 1662 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18413685 | POACEAE POLLEN PRESERVATION AND STABILIZATION METHOD | Accelerated AG Technologies, LLC | GRAVINI, STEPHEN MICHAEL | 1792 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 17500644 | Pollination Predictor System and Method | Accelerated AG Technologies, LLC | DHARITHREESAN, NIDHI | 1686 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2021 |
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