Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 5 clients • 6 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Grell & Watson Patent Attorneys LLC operates in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The firm has handled 886 career applications, which provides data on their prosecution history. Currently, the firm is managing 6 pending office actions, indicating a steady current docket of active matters.
The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 88.62 percent. This success is achieved with an average of 2.45 office actions per allowance. This 2.45 average indicates a prosecution process typically requiring multiple rounds of interaction with examiners to reach a grant in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. The 88.62 percent allowance rate across 886 career applications demonstrates a track record of securing patent rights.
With 6 pending office actions, the firm continues to prosecute new matters for its clients. The 886 career applications establish a basis for evaluating their performance. Practitioners can use the 88.62 percent resolved allowance rate and the 2.45 average office actions per allowance as key metrics for the firm's efficiency and effectiveness in their primary technology area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J | 1 | 38.7% | +40.0% |
| HAYES, BRET C | 1 | 80.4% | +15.3% |
| OBAID, HAMZEH M | 1 | 38.3% | +22.4% |
| ADAMS, PHILIP CHARLES | 1 | 75.0% | +0.0% |
| CONDO, VERONICA MARIE | 1 | 82.0% | +6.9% |
| O'HERN, BRENT T | 1 | 78.5% | +19.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18749458 | AIRCRAFT BOARDING VEHICLE AND METHODS OF USE | CONDO, VERONICA MARIE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18941335 | System And Method For The Quantitative Measurement and Reduction Of Marketing Entropy Using Geometric Methods And Heuristics | OBAID, HAMZEH M | 5d |
| 18385671 | SEASONING BLEND CONTAINING TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL | O'HERN, BRENT T | 40d |
| 19367155 | LAUNCHER ADAPTATION KIT | HAYES, BRET C | — |
| 18894033 | Ergonomic Elevated Foot Board Device for Vehicles with a Floor Mounted Pedal or Pedals | ADAMS, PHILIP CHARLES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18941335 | System And Method For The Quantitative Measurement and Reduction Of Marketing Entropy Using Geometric Methods And Heuristics | OBAID, HAMZEH M | 5d |
| 18385671 | SEASONING BLEND CONTAINING TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL | O'HERN, BRENT T | 40d |
| 19375760 | System and Method for Optical-Wave Modeling of Customer Behavior in Marketing Ecosystems | WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J | — |
| 19367155 | LAUNCHER ADAPTATION KIT | HAYES, BRET C | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Pelatro Pte. Ltd. | 2 |
| Msi Defense Solutions, LLC | 1 |
| Niteworks LLC | 1 |
| Dovetail Boarding Systems LLC | 1 |
| Tanya Diaz | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3622 | 1 |
| 3641 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19375760 | System and Method for Optical-Wave Modeling of Customer Behavior in Marketing Ecosystems | Pelatro Pte. Ltd. | WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J | 3622 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2025 |
| 19367155 | LAUNCHER ADAPTATION KIT | Msi Defense Solutions, LLC | HAYES, BRET C | 3641 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2025 |
| 18941335 | System And Method For The Quantitative Measurement and Reduction Of Marketing Entropy Using Geometric Methods And Heuristics | Pelatro Pte. Ltd. | OBAID, HAMZEH M | 3624 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18894033 | Ergonomic Elevated Foot Board Device for Vehicles with a Floor Mounted Pedal or Pedals | Niteworks LLC | ADAMS, PHILIP CHARLES | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 | |
| 18749458 | AIRCRAFT BOARDING VEHICLE AND METHODS OF USE | Dovetail Boarding Systems LLC | CONDO, VERONICA MARIE | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 | |
| 18385671 | SEASONING BLEND CONTAINING TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL | Tanya Diaz | O'HERN, BRENT T | 1793 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
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