Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Heidi Brun Associates Ltd.

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

22 pending office actions • 10 clients • 20 examiners • 20 art units • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Heidi Brun Associates Ltd. has 23 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems and 495 career applications. The profile combines a moderate active docket with a recorded application history.

The resolved allowance rate is 89.24%, and the average is 4.24 office actions per allowance. The figures show resolved outcome performance and the examination activity associated with allowances.

For transportation and mechanical portfolios, the record supports evaluating both active workload and historical prosecution behavior. It does not provide matter-level explanations for the reported averages.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=495 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

89.2%
Allowance Rate
n=495
+0.53σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=495
4.2
OAs to Allowance
n=257
+0.07σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=257
970 days
Time to Allowance
n=257
+4.9pp
Interview Lift
n=495
41.7%
RCE Rate
n=495
0.2%
Appeal Rate
n=495

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

71.8%
§101 Overcome
n=85
75.3%
§102 Overcome
n=93
76.1%
§103 Overcome
n=222
81.7%
§112 Overcome
n=142

Specialization & Scale

G06F, G06N, G06Q
Top CPC Subclasses
43%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=495
1
Practitioners
n=495
495.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=495

Portfolio Summary

22
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

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

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.

7
Hard (32%)
13
Medium (59%)
2
Easy (9%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (5%)
§101 + other4 (18%)
§103 only12 (55%)
§112 only1 (5%)
Double-patenting only1 (5%)
Double-patenting + other1 (5%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (9%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
14% of docket
7
Information Tech
32% of docket
1
Communications
5% of docket
1
Semiconductors
5% of docket
10
Mechanical / Eng
45% 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.

220 h
Manual time on pending OAs
44 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
77 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ZARRINEH, SHAHRIAR 2 77.3% +6.9%
CELESTINE, NYROBI I 2 81.4% +23.1%
VIG, NARESH 1 36.6% +43.2%
POND, ROBERT M 1 71.1% +42.4%
MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO 1 49.1% +19.9%
JACOB, WILLIAM J 1 49.3% +34.4%
RAMPURIA, SATISH 1 89.0% +24.9%
CORTES, HOWARD 1 78.5% +14.5%
HEVEY, JOHN A 1 61.8% +19.7%
MCINTOSH, ANDREW T 1 77.4% +18.4%

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
18048873 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ULTRASOUND ANALYSIS CELESTINE, NYROBI I 2d overdue

Hard Cases (7)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17931908 TOOL FOR TEST BASED PERSONALIZATION OF ACTUARIAL TABLES HAMILTON, SARA CHANDLER 41d
18978011 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HELPING A LONG TERM CARE POLICY HOLDER STAY INDEPENDENT IN THE SHORT TERM JACOB, WILLIAM J 84d
19424203 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE ADVERTISEMENT INTEGRATION WITH WEBPAGES VIG, NARESH —
19001657 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A CARDIAC ANOMALY CELESTINE, NYROBI I —
18928037 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE GENERATION OF AN ADAPTIVE USER INTERFACE IN A WEBSITE BUILDING SYSTEM RAMPURIA, SATISH —
18789177 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADDITIVE METAL CASTING HEVEY, JOHN A —
17744686 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADDITIVE METAL CASTING CARPENTER, JOSHUA S —

Interview Candidates (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18048873 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ULTRASOUND ANALYSIS CELESTINE, NYROBI I 2d overdue
18978011 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HELPING A LONG TERM CARE POLICY HOLDER STAY INDEPENDENT IN THE SHORT TERM JACOB, WILLIAM J 84d
19424203 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE ADVERTISEMENT INTEGRATION WITH WEBPAGES VIG, NARESH —
19334881 ACTIONABLE WIDGET CARDS POND, ROBERT M —
19046650 DEDUPLICATION OF DATA WITH TWO TYPES OF FINGERPRINTS MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO —
19001657 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A CARDIAC ANOMALY CELESTINE, NYROBI I —
18928037 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE GENERATION OF AN ADAPTIVE USER INTERFACE IN A WEBSITE BUILDING SYSTEM RAMPURIA, SATISH —
18800072 SYSTEM AND METHOD PROVIDING RESPONSIVE EDITING AND VIEWING, INTEGRATING HIERARCHICAL FLUID COMPONENTS AND DYNAMIC LAYOUT CORTES, HOWARD —

Client Portfolio (10 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
24962
37982
36221
36881
21591
36961
21931
21181
17351
21441

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19424203 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE ADVERTISEMENT INTEGRATION WITH WEBPAGES Wix.com Ltd. VIG, NARESH 3622 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 18, 2025
19334881 ACTIONABLE WIDGET CARDS Wix.com Ltd. POND, ROBERT M 3688 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 21, 2025
19262090 SECURE SIMILARITY SEARCH FOR SENSITIVE DATA Gsi Technology Inc. ZARRINEH, SHAHRIAR 2496 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 08, 2025
19262095 SECURE SIMILARITY SEARCH FOR SENSITIVE DATA Gsi Technology Inc. ZARRINEH, SHAHRIAR 2496 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 08, 2025
19046650 DEDUPLICATION OF DATA WITH TWO TYPES OF FINGERPRINTS Gsi Technology Inc. MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO 2159 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 06, 2025
19001657 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A CARDIAC ANOMALY Yeda Research And Development Co. Ltd. CELESTINE, NYROBI I 3798 §101§102§103Other Final Rejection — Pending Dec 26, 2024
18978011 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HELPING A LONG TERM CARE POLICY HOLDER STAY INDEPENDENT IN THE SHORT TERM Assured Inc. JACOB, WILLIAM J 3696 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Dec 12, 2024
18928037 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE GENERATION OF AN ADAPTIVE USER INTERFACE IN A WEBSITE BUILDING SYSTEM Wix.com Ltd. RAMPURIA, SATISH 2193 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 27, 2024
18800072 SYSTEM AND METHOD PROVIDING RESPONSIVE EDITING AND VIEWING, INTEGRATING HIERARCHICAL FLUID COMPONENTS AND DYNAMIC LAYOUT Wix.com Ltd. CORTES, HOWARD 2118 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 11, 2024
18789177 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADDITIVE METAL CASTING Magnus Metal Ltd. HEVEY, JOHN A 1735 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 30, 2024
18655260 THIRD PARTY APPLICATION COMMUNICATION API Wix.com Ltd. MCINTOSH, ANDREW T 2144 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 05, 2024
18683776 PROXIMITY SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE CO-LOCATION OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES Co-Moving Carpool Ltd. DEAN, JR, JOSEPH E 2647 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Feb 15, 2024
18439545 METHODS CIRCUITS DEVICES SYSTEMS AND FUNCTIONALLY ASSOCIATED MACHINE EXECUTABLE INSTRUCTIONS TO GENERATE A SEATING PLAN FOR AN EVENT TO BE HELD WITHIN A VENUE Wix.com Ltd. MURRAY, WAYNE SCOTT 3628 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 12, 2024
18438630 RADAR SYSTEM FOR DETECTING PROFILES OF OBJECTS, PARTICULARLY IN A VICINITY OF A MACHINE WORK TOOL Rodradar Ltd. BARKER, MATTHEW M 3646 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Feb 12, 2024
18519166 SYSTEM FOR COMPARISON AND MERGING OF VERSIONS IN EDITED WEBSITES AND INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS Wix.com Ltd. FABER, DAVID 2172 §103DP Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Nov 27, 2023
18556123 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GUIDING POSITIONING AND ORIENTING OF AN ULTRASOUND PROBE Ultrasight Ltd. CWERN, JONATHAN 3797 §103Other Final Rejection — Pending Oct 19, 2023
18048873 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ULTRASOUND ANALYSIS Yeda Research And Development Co. Ltd. CELESTINE, NYROBI I 3798 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2022
17931908 TOOL FOR TEST BASED PERSONALIZATION OF ACTUARIAL TABLES Assured Inc. HAMILTON, SARA CHANDLER 3695 §101 Final Rejection 41d Pending Sep 14, 2022
17785068 MULTILENS DIRECT VIEW NEAR EYE DISPLAY Softoptics Reality Plus Ltd. DUONG, HENRY ABRAHAM 2872 §112 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Jun 14, 2022
17744686 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADDITIVE METAL CASTING Magnus Metal Ltd. CARPENTER, JOSHUA S 1733 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending May 15, 2022
17640892 ORGANOMINERAL FERTILIZER AND PROCESS THEREFOR Paulee Cleantec Ltd. SMITH, JENNIFER A 1731 §103 Non-Final OA 77d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2022
17673933 STRUCTURED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM INTEGRATING DYNAMIC DISPLAY Wix.com Ltd. SCHNEIDER, JOSHUA D 3626 §103 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Feb 17, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Heidi Brun Associates Ltd.'s patent allowance rate?

89.2% of resolved applications prosecuted by Heidi Brun Associates Ltd. were allowed, across 495 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Heidi Brun Associates Ltd. average before allowance?

4.24 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Heidi Brun Associates Ltd. have?

22 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 10 clients, before 20 examiners in 20 art units.

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