Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 1 client • 8 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Burr & Forman LLP - FGTL has 11 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems and 338 career applications. The profile shows current examination activity within a smaller application record for this technology area.
The resolved allowance rate is 46.06%, and the average is 2.89 office actions per allowance. Resolved applications reach allowance at the reported rate, while the average indicates that allowance generally follows multiple office actions. Practitioners should give particular attention to response development and claim strategy in the pending transportation, commerce, and mechanical matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (22%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (78%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAHNI, VISHAL R | 2 | 75.4% | +18.9% |
| KECK, DANIEL M | 1 | 82.2% | +19.1% |
| BRAUCH, CHARLES JOSEPH | 1 | 81.7% | +13.5% |
| GILBERT, WILLIAM V | 1 | 58.0% | +25.8% |
| BAILEY, JOHN D | 1 | 79.2% | +16.7% |
| MILLER, CAITLIN ANNE | 1 | 89.6% | +9.0% |
| COMINO, EVA L | 1 | 70.4% | +32.3% |
| BURCH, MELODY M | 1 | 64.2% | +26.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19040286 | WHEEL SLIP CONTROLS AND RESPONSE TO TIRE PRESSURE | BRAUCH, CHARLES JOSEPH | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18538142 | BRAKE DUST SHIELD DESIGN FOR BRAKE DUST SHIELD ROBUSTNESS | BURCH, MELODY M | 29d |
| 18581022 | WHEEL COVER RETENTION ASSEMBLY | COMINO, EVA L | 34d |
| 19052467 | ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED SUSPENSION COMPONENTS WITH AN INTEGRATED FLUID PASSAGE | KECK, DANIEL M | — |
| 18956183 | LUG NUT UTILIZING OPEN-FRAME DESIGNS | GILBERT, WILLIAM V | — |
| 18623398 | COMBINED MOTOR ROTOR AND WHEEL RIM ASSEMBLY | MILLER, CAITLIN ANNE | — |
| 18581761 | BRAKE ARCHITECTURE FOR PARKING BRAKE BACKUP RESPONSE | SAHNI, VISHAL R | — |
| 18515573 | SPRING ISOLATOR PAD WITH INTEGRATED SPRING ROTATION STOP AND PAD ROTATION STOP | SAHNI, VISHAL R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18538142 | BRAKE DUST SHIELD DESIGN FOR BRAKE DUST SHIELD ROBUSTNESS | BURCH, MELODY M | 29d |
| 18581022 | WHEEL COVER RETENTION ASSEMBLY | COMINO, EVA L | 34d |
| 18800541 | BRAKE ASSIST FOR HOLDING TORQUE WITHIN A BRAKE ASSEMBLY | BAILEY, JOHN D | 43d |
| 19052467 | ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED SUSPENSION COMPONENTS WITH AN INTEGRATED FLUID PASSAGE | KECK, DANIEL M | — |
| 19040286 | WHEEL SLIP CONTROLS AND RESPONSE TO TIRE PRESSURE | BRAUCH, CHARLES JOSEPH | — |
| 18956183 | LUG NUT UTILIZING OPEN-FRAME DESIGNS | GILBERT, WILLIAM V | — |
| 18581761 | BRAKE ARCHITECTURE FOR PARKING BRAKE BACKUP RESPONSE | SAHNI, VISHAL R | — |
| 18515573 | SPRING ISOLATOR PAD WITH INTEGRATED SPRING ROTATION STOP AND PAD ROTATION STOP | SAHNI, VISHAL R | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Ford | 9 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3616 | 3 |
| 3614 | 2 |
| 3747 | 2 |
| 3993 | 1 |
| 3615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19052467 | ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED SUSPENSION COMPONENTS WITH AN INTEGRATED FLUID PASSAGE | Ford Global Technologies, LLC | KECK, DANIEL M | 3614 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 19040286 | WHEEL SLIP CONTROLS AND RESPONSE TO TIRE PRESSURE | Ford Global Technologies, LLC | BRAUCH, CHARLES JOSEPH | 3747 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 18956183 | LUG NUT UTILIZING OPEN-FRAME DESIGNS | Ford Global Technologies, LLC | GILBERT, WILLIAM V | 3993 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18800541 | BRAKE ASSIST FOR HOLDING TORQUE WITHIN A BRAKE ASSEMBLY | Ford Global Technologies, LLC | BAILEY, JOHN D | 3747 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18623398 | COMBINED MOTOR ROTOR AND WHEEL RIM ASSEMBLY | Ford Global Technologies, LLC | MILLER, CAITLIN ANNE | 3614 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 18581761 | BRAKE ARCHITECTURE FOR PARKING BRAKE BACKUP RESPONSE | Ford Global Technologies, LLC | SAHNI, VISHAL R | 3616 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18581022 | WHEEL COVER RETENTION ASSEMBLY | Ford Global Technologies, LLC | COMINO, EVA L | 3615 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Feb 19, 2024 |
| 18538142 | BRAKE DUST SHIELD DESIGN FOR BRAKE DUST SHIELD ROBUSTNESS | Ford Global Technologies, LLC | BURCH, MELODY M | 3616 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18515573 | SPRING ISOLATOR PAD WITH INTEGRATED SPRING ROTATION STOP AND PAD ROTATION STOP | Ford Global Technologies, LLC | SAHNI, VISHAL R | 3616 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial46.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Burr & Forman LLP - Fgtl were allowed, across 338 applications in USPTO records.
2.89 office actions per allowed application on average.
9 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 8 examiners in 5 art units.
