Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
375 pending office actions • 114 clients • 353 examiners • 223 art units • 0 of 375 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 51 patents granted in the last 365 days
Brooks Kushman P.C. has 366 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems and 16185 career applications. The pending figure marks a substantial active examination workload, while the application record shows that the profile covers a broad body of prosecution activity in this technology area.
The resolved allowance rate is 87.64%, with an average of 3.1 office actions per allowance. The data therefore presents an allowance record in which resolved applications frequently reach allowance, while the average indicates that examination commonly continues through several office actions. Practitioners can use these measures to assess response planning, docket capacity, and the likely need for sustained prosecution work.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 96 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. 96 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 7 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 46 (12%) |
| §103 only | 101 (27%) |
| §102 only | 26 (7%) |
| §112 only | 15 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 7 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 170 (45%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (0%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBINSON, KRYSTAL | 4 | 86.4% | -5.0% |
| MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 3 | 62.5% | +64.0% |
| CHU, KATHERINE J | 3 | 46.6% | +20.6% |
| CONTRERAS, CIEL P | 3 | 54.3% | +33.6% |
| TALIOUA, ABDELBASST | 2 | 60.8% | +35.8% |
| TAN, RICHARD | 2 | 79.6% | +23.0% |
| SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 2 | 52.0% | +15.5% |
| ROS, NICHOLAS A | 2 | 52.5% | +34.2% |
| KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 2 | 13.0% | +14.5% |
| TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH | 2 | 83.4% | +25.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17723939 | COMPUTATIONAL METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING A BIOPOLYMER PROPERTY OF A BIOPOLYMER | SANFORD, DIANA PATRICIA | 77d overdue |
| 18021782 | SEMI-IMPLANTABLE HEARING AID | TRAN, LARA LINH | 60d overdue |
| 18272731 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED COMPUTER, COMPUTER EXECUTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | AQUINO, WYNUEL S | 58d overdue |
| 18724103 | INTERACTIVE KARAOKE APPLICATION FOR VEHICLES | BRINEY III, WALTER F | 53d overdue |
| 18108171 | HYDROGEL MICROPARTICLES FOR APPLICATIONS IN CELL AND PARTICLE SEPARATION | GIERE, REBECCA M | 51d overdue |
| 18566246 | METHOD FOR PROTECTING SENSITIVE SURFACES | VONCH, JEFFREY A | 50d overdue |
| 18018760 | PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEM | TALUKDAR, ARVIND | 44d overdue |
| 18604579 | INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PARKER, JEANETTE J | 42d overdue |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18134842 | ELECTROLYSIS CELL HAVING LOCALIZED ELECTRONIC CONTACT POROUS TRANSPORT LAYER | CONTRERAS, CIEL P | 28d overdue |
| 18134835 | ELECTROLYSIS CELL HAVING ELECTRODE LOCALIZED CONTACTING REGIONS | CONTRERAS, CIEL P | 28d overdue |
| 18134827 | ELECTROLYSIS CELL HAVING A POROUS TRANSPORT ELECTRODE WITH INFILTRATED IONOMER | CONTRERAS, CIEL P | 15d overdue |
| 18207072 | PACKAGE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A PACKAGE | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 4d overdue |
| 17887014 | ACCESS DECK ASSEMBLY AND HANDLE ASSEMBLY FOR AN AERIAL WORK PLATFORM OF A VEHICLE | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 9d |
| 18216047 | OPERATING METHOD FOR A SLICING MACHINE AND SLICING MACHINE SUITABLE THEREFOR | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 33d |
| 18921330 | SAFETY DEVICE FOR MOBILE WORK PLATFORMS | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 36d |
| 18862696 | Untitled | TALIOUA, ABDELBASST | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3671 | 7 |
| 3724 | 6 |
| 2836 | 5 |
| 1794 | 5 |
| 1723 | 5 |
| 3715 | 4 |
| 2847 | 4 |
| 3655 | 4 |
| 3754 | 4 |
| 2466 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18862696 | Untitled | Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. | TALIOUA, ABDELBASST | 2445 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | |
| 18953863 | Untitled | Robert Bosch GmbH | MCCORD, PAUL C | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | ||
| 18729253 | Untitled | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | DAVIS, DAVID DONALD | 2627 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | |
| 19539684 | A MEASUREMENT APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A VELOCITY OF A FLUID | Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GmbH | BONNETTE, RODNEY ANDREW | 3647 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2026 |
| 19429275 | LIFT DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING ON A GRADE | Terex South Dakota, Inc. | NGUYEN, HOANG M | 3746 | §101§102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2025 |
| 19396236 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A PACKAGE AND PACKAGING MACHINE | Multivac Marking & Inspection GmbH & Co. Kg | AHMED, MOBEEN | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2025 |
| 19478583 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING PRESSED BOARD TRAYS | Confoil Pty Ltd. | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2025 |
| 19477688 | IN-VEHICLE DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. | INGE, JOSEPH N | 2836 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2025 |
| 19474010 | MICRO STIRLING ENGINE | The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. | EDWARDS, LOREN C | 3746 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2025 |
| 19345688 | INTER-FRAME PREDICTION METHOD AND TERMINAL | Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. | NASRI, MARYAM A | 2484 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2025 |
| 19332808 | FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM HAVING AN ELECTRIC ACTUATOR FOR CONTROLLING A HYDRAULIC SERVO CONTROL | Airbus Helicopters | BUTLER, RODNEY ALLEN | 3666 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2025 |
| 19163179 | UPDATE SYSTEM, ONBOARD APPARATUS, AND SERVER | Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. | GONZALEZ, MARIO CARLOS | 3668 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2025 |
| 19300532 | ENGINE FAILURE TRAINING METHOD FOR A SINGLE-ENGINE ROTORCRAFT | Airbus Helicopters | LANE, DANIEL E | 3715 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19293151 | DRIVING CIRCUIT, DRIVING METHOD, DRIVING MODULE AND DISPLAY DEVICE | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | BOGALE, AMEN W | 2628 | Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2025 |
| 19262884 | Automatically Determining an Updated Tire Size of Tires of a Vehicle and Influencing Operation of the Vehicle Based Thereon | Powerteq LLC | PARK, CHANMIN | 3661 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2025 |
| 19143528 | ANALYSIS DEVICE, ANALYSIS METHOD, AND PROGRAM | HoriBA, Ltd. | TRIEU, VAN THANH | 2685 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19238995 | DECRYPTION METHOD FOR PAYMENT KEY | Shenzhen Pax Smart New Technology Co., Ltd. | IMMANUEL, ILSE I | 3699 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 19232070 | PACKET PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS | Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. | TALIOUA, ABDELBASST | 2445 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19228635 | NETWORK ACCESS SYSTEM FOR DETECTING INTRUSIONS OVER A NETWORK | Darrien Ventures LLC | MURPHY, JOSEPH B | 2435 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 |
| 19133910 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROL DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. | PEREZ BORROTO, ALFONSO | 2836 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19130296 | RELAY DEVICE, UNAUTHORIZED FRAME DETECTION METHOD, AND IN-VEHICLE DEVICE | Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. | HUYNH, LUAT T | 3667 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2025 |
| 19198873 | MODULAR UTILITY BRACKET | Maclean Power LLC | KING, ANITA M | 3632 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2025 |
| 19179214 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING AN AIRCRAFT DISPLAY | Airbus Helicopters | SHARIFI-TAFRESHI, KOOSHA | 2628 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 19120068 | IN-VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE | Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. | HAMMOND, CRYSTAL L | 2838 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19175004 | MODEL SUPERVISION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, NETWORK-SIDE DEVICE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. | MENDAYE, KIDEST H | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 | |
| 19119217 | MODULAR MATTRESS WITH SIDERAILS | Carpenter Co. | SANTOS, ROBERT G | 3673 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2025 |
| 19117846 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED DEVICE, CONNECTION DESTINATION NOTIFICATION METHOD, AND CONNECTION DESTINATION NOTIFICATION PROGRAM | Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha | BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. | 2184 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 19117775 | WINDING SWITCHING SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE MOTOR, CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR VEHICLE MOTOR, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd. | LEE, TYLER J | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 19094977 | DATASET GENERATION METHOD, INFORMATION SENDING METHOD, APPARATUSES, AND RELATED DEVICES | Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. | ALGIBHAH, HAMZA N | 2457 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2025 |
| 19094005 | RIGID CONNECTOR FOR MECHANICAL COUPLING OF COMPONENTS | Hirschvogel Holding GmbH | YABUT, DANIEL D | 3617 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19092376 | Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage Systems | Robert Bosch GmbH | NIEVES, NELSON J | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19113744 | BIMODAL HDPE AND POLYETHYLENE BLEND CONTAINING VIRGIN AND RECYCLED HDPE MATERIALS | Dow Quimica Mexicana S.A.De C.V. | LENIHAN, JEFFREY S | 1765 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 19084035 | ROAD CONSTRUCTION MACHINE WITH WIRELESS ENERGY TRANSMISSION | Joseph Vögele AG | TAN, RICHARD | 2849 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19079686 | DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL, AND SERVER | Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. | SHAH, MEHULKUMAR J | 2459 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 19111398 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING THE PRESENCE OF AS WELL AS FOR ANALYZING PARTICLES IN A FLOW OF LUBRICANT | Airbus Helicopters Technik GmbH | TRUONG, MINH D | 3654 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19076548 | QUENCHING A WHEEL COMPRISING A HUB | Mubea Performance Wheels GmbH | WALTERS, RYAN J | 3799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 19073493 | ADJUSTABLE FIT TACTICAL CUMMERBUND | Agilite Ergonomics (E.B.) Ltd. | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 3732 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19063946 | PACKAGING AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A PACKAGING | Multivac Marking & Inspection GmbH & Co. Kg | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 3735 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19059762 | OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING | The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. | STAFIRA, MICHAEL PATRICK | 2877 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19100064 | VERIFICATION-CYCLE GENERATION METHOD, VERIFICATION-CYCLE GENERATION SYSTEM, AND VERIFICATION-CYCLE GENERATION PROGRAM | HoriBA, Ltd. | VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN | 3665 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 19099139 | IN-VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE | Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. | TAN, RICHARD | 2836 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 18998428 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Hygon Information Technology Co., Ltd. | GOLDSCHMIDT, CRAIG S | 2132 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 19035311 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING SCATTERING AND IMPROVING OPTICAL POWER DENSITY IN CELLULAR MATRICES | The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. | KIM, KIHO | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 18997053 | DRIVING CIRCUIT, DISPLAY SUBSTRATE AND DISPLAY DEVICE | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | AZARI, SEPEHR | 2621 | §102 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
| 19029010 | MULTI-SOURCE DISTRIBUTED NAVIGATION SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE | The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. | BRASWELL, DONALD H.B. | 2825 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19026752 | SUBSTRATE COMPRESSION PROCESS AND PRODUCT | Profile Products LLC | WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | 1783 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18996320 | CONNECTION CABLE AND DETACHMENT DEVICE | Standard Instruments GmbH Gesellschaft Für Medizintechnik, Mess- Und Regeltechnik, Steuerungstechnik | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 3771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18995429 | ACTIVE STUD CONFIGURED TO PROVIDE OMNIDIRECTIONAL LIGHT OUTPUT | Clearview Intelligence Ltd. | GRAMLING, SEAN P | 2875 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19022313 | NETWORK ACCESS METHOD, TERMINAL, AND NETWORK SIDE NETWORK ELEMENT | Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. | POTRATZ, DANIEL B | 2491 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18994341 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING PERFORMANCE AND STATE OF ACTIVE ROAD STUDS INSTALLED IN ROADWAY | Clearview Intelligence Ltd. | CODRINGTON, SHANE WRENSFORD | 2667 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial87.6% of resolved applications prosecuted by Brooks Kushman, P.C. were allowed, across 16,185 applications in USPTO records.
3.10 office actions per allowed application on average.
375 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 114 clients, before 353 examiners in 223 art units.
