Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Brown & Michaels, Pc

6 pending office actions • 6 clients • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=1422 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

78.9%
Allowance Rate
n=1422
+0.59σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1422
2.8
OAs to Allowance
n=804
-0.33σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=804
1069 days
Time to Allowance
n=804
+11.1pp
Interview Lift
n=1422
16.1%
RCE Rate
n=1422
2.2%
Appeal Rate
n=1422

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=11 (min 20)
81.5%
§102 Overcome
n=65
82.1%
§103 Overcome
n=452
90.0%
§112 Overcome
n=100

Specialization & Scale

Y10T, G01N, A61K
Top CPC Subclasses
9%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1422
0
Practitioners
n=1422
Apps / Practitioner
n=1422 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)

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%)
5
Medium (83%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (67%)
§102 only1 (17%)
§112 only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
33% of docket
1
Information Tech
17% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
17% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
33% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MORAN, EDWARD JOHN 1 41.6% +61.0%
BARNES JR, CARL E 1 32.7% +25.3%
ALVARE, PAUL 1 57.6% +37.5%
KING, JOSHUA 1 64.6% +28.0%
BEKKER, KELLY JO 1 16.1% +34.3%
BEISNER, WILLIAM H 1 61.6% +29.4%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18252658 SAUCE BEKKER, KELLY JO 67d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18252658 SAUCE BEKKER, KELLY JO 67d overdue
18393639 CRYOGENIC STORAGE CONTAINER CLOSURE ALVARE, PAUL 16d overdue
18585805 MULTI-MODAL MULTI-VIEW CLASSIFICATION METHOD FOR ECHOCARDIOGRAMS BASED ON DEEP LEARNING ALGORITHM BARNES JR, CARL E 10d overdue
17858757 SMALL-VOLUME CRYOGENIC STORAGE CONTAINER BEISNER, WILLIAM H 3d overdue
18848628 SPLINTS FOR INJECTED VENEERS MORAN, EDWARD JOHN
18257523 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR HOMOGENIZING THE TEMPERATURE OF A LASER BASE PLATE KING, JOSHUA

Client Portfolio (6 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37721
21781
37631
28281
17921
17991

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18848628 SPLINTS FOR INJECTED VENEERS Microdental 2006,S.L. MORAN, EDWARD JOHN 3772 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 19, 2024
18585805 MULTI-MODAL MULTI-VIEW CLASSIFICATION METHOD FOR ECHOCARDIOGRAMS BASED ON DEEP LEARNING ALGORITHM UNION HOSPITAL, TONGJI MEDICAL COLLEGE, HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BARNES JR, CARL E 2178 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Feb 23, 2024
18393639 CRYOGENIC STORAGE CONTAINER CLOSURE Savsu Technologies LLC ALVARE, PAUL 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2023
18257523 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR HOMOGENIZING THE TEMPERATURE OF A LASER BASE PLATE Litilit, Uab KING, JOSHUA 2828 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 14, 2023
18252658 SAUCE UAB "DAUMANTAI LT" BEKKER, KELLY JO 1792 §103 Final Rejection 67d overdue Pending May 11, 2023
17858757 SMALL-VOLUME CRYOGENIC STORAGE CONTAINER Biolife Solutions, Inc. BEISNER, WILLIAM H 1799 §102 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Jul 06, 2022

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