Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 5 clients • 7 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Brown & Brown IP Law PLLC is a patent law firm that has handled 98 career applications, with a focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The firm currently has 4 pending office actions. It maintains a resolved allowance rate of 65.22 percent.
On average, the firm receives 3.64 office actions per allowance. This average of 3.64 indicates a prosecution style that involves multiple rounds of negotiation to achieve its 65.22 percent resolved allowance rate. This approach is applied across its 98 career applications. The firm's willingness to persist through several office actions is a key component of its strategy for overcoming examiner rejections.
The 4 pending office actions show the firm's current active workload in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. These metrics together illustrate a firm that persists through several office actions to secure allowances for its clients. This data provides a useful benchmark for evaluating the firm's prosecution performance and current engagement levels.
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 | 1 (14%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (71%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHMED, MOBEEN | 1 | 61.5% | +7.6% |
| FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 76.2% | +39.5% |
| ADDISU, SARA | 1 | 85.4% | +10.7% |
| MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 1 | 64.6% | +31.2% |
| SINCLAIR, DAVID M | 1 | 68.4% | +19.5% |
| LUBIT, RYAN A | 1 | 63.7% | +37.9% |
| GATES, ERIC ANDREW | 1 | 78.8% | +14.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19315540 | Container, Method of Making a Container, and Apparatus for Manufacturing a Container | AHMED, MOBEEN | 41d |
| 19181285 | FLAT DRILL | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 19075614 | HYDRAULIC EXPANSION CHUCK | ADDISU, SARA | — |
| 18937015 | SOFT START CONTROLLERS FOR MOTORS, AND COMPONENTS OF SOFT START CONTROLLERS | SINCLAIR, DAVID M | — |
| 18180379 | MACHINING TOOL COMPRISING A SETTABLE GUIDE RAIL | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18643299 | TOUCH-SENSITIVE CONTROLLER AND INTERFACE, AND METHODS | LUBIT, RYAN A | 29d |
| 19181285 | FLAT DRILL | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 19075614 | HYDRAULIC EXPANSION CHUCK | ADDISU, SARA | — |
| 18870679 | RETAIL SECURITY ASSEMBLY | MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | — |
| 18937015 | SOFT START CONTROLLERS FOR MOTORS, AND COMPONENTS OF SOFT START CONTROLLERS | SINCLAIR, DAVID M | — |
| 18180379 | MACHINING TOOL COMPRISING A SETTABLE GUIDE RAIL | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Gühring | 2 |
| International Controls and Measurements Corporation | 2 |
| Frugalpac | 1 |
| Sekura Global IP LLP | 1 |
| Guehring | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| 2626 | 1 |
| 3722 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19315540 | Container, Method of Making a Container, and Apparatus for Manufacturing a Container | Frugalpac Limited | AHMED, MOBEEN | 3731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Aug 30, 2025 |
| 19181285 | FLAT DRILL | Gühring Kg | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 | |
| 19075614 | HYDRAULIC EXPANSION CHUCK | Gühring Kg | ADDISU, SARA | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 | |
| 18870679 | RETAIL SECURITY ASSEMBLY | Sekura Global Ip LLP | MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 3675 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2024 |
| 18937015 | SOFT START CONTROLLERS FOR MOTORS, AND COMPONENTS OF SOFT START CONTROLLERS | International Controls And Measurements Corporation | SINCLAIR, DAVID M | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 | |
| 18643299 | TOUCH-SENSITIVE CONTROLLER AND INTERFACE, AND METHODS | International Controls And Measurements Corporation | LUBIT, RYAN A | 2626 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18180379 | MACHINING TOOL COMPRISING A SETTABLE GUIDE RAIL | Guehring Kg | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | 3722 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2023 |
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