Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Gurr & Brande, Pllc

7 pending office actions • 6 clients • 7 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 38 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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%)
6
Medium (86%)
1
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (71%)
§102 only1 (14%)
§112 only1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
14% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
86% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SALONE, BAYAN 1 76.0% +17.2%
KRYCINSKI, STANTON L 1 68.0% +28.4%
MCNICHOLS, ERET C 1 74.7% -16.0%
FERENCE, JAMES M 1 71.6% +16.8%
KLOTZ, WILLIAM R 1 39.2% +56.3%
BERNARD, ADRIEN J 1 80.9% +18.3%
BEHRENS, ADAM J 1 76.9% +12.7%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18501567 CONCRETE PANEL ASSEMBLY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF BERNARD, ADRIEN J 9d

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
18304239 WEED CUTTING AND REMOVAL APPARATUS BEHRENS, ADAM J 104d overdue
18590459 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING GRAY WATER TO FLUSH A TOILET KLOTZ, WILLIAM R 56d overdue
19034394 HANDGUN HANGER APPARATUS KRYCINSKI, STANTON L 50d overdue
18501567 CONCRETE PANEL ASSEMBLY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF BERNARD, ADRIEN J 9d
18658490 SWIVEL ANCHOR FERENCE, JAMES M 23d
19052029 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING AND INSTALLING COMMERCIAL ROOFING SALONE, BAYAN 40d

Client Portfolio (6 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37261
36311
36321
36351
37541
17411
36711

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19052029 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING AND INSTALLING COMMERCIAL ROOFING Innovatech Systems, LLC SALONE, BAYAN 3726 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Feb 12, 2025
19034394 HANDGUN HANGER APPARATUS Berry'S Manufacturing Of Utah, Inc. KRYCINSKI, STANTON L 3631 §112 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Jan 22, 2025
18673828 CENTER HEIGHT ADJUSTABLE SHOOTING STICKS FOR MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN AllPredatorCalls.Com, Inc. MCNICHOLS, ERET C 3632 §103 Non-Final OA 147d overdue Pending May 24, 2024
18658490 SWIVEL ANCHOR Iron Fusion Enterprise, LLC FERENCE, JAMES M 3635 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending May 08, 2024
18590459 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING GRAY WATER TO FLUSH A TOILET Mj Stewart Investments, LLC KLOTZ, WILLIAM R 3754 §103 Non-Final OA 56d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2024
18501567 CONCRETE PANEL ASSEMBLY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF Innovatech Systems, LLC BERNARD, ADRIEN J 1741 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Nov 03, 2023
18304239 WEED CUTTING AND REMOVAL APPARATUS Burz, LLC BEHRENS, ADAM J 3671 §102 Non-Final OA 104d overdue Pending Apr 20, 2023

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