Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aero Pump GmbH has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating that the workload is distributed among examiners while showing some art-unit concentration.
GRUBY, RANDALL A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The absence of a larger examiner concentration supports application-level tracking, with art-unit coordination useful where assignments overlap.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRUBY, RANDALL A | 1 | 62.4% | +43.2% |
| DRAGICEVICH, ZACHARY T | 1 | 79.7% | +4.7% |
| SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | 1 | 82.1% | +15.4% |
| CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL | 1 | 53.1% | +41.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18391782 | FILTER FOR HOLLOW-CONE NOZZLE BODY | SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | 70d |
| 18785259 | DISPENSING DEVICE FOR A FLUID | GRUBY, RANDALL A | — |
| 18757901 | ADAPTER, FLUID DISPENSING DEVICE HAVING SAID ADAPTER, AND ASSEMBLY METHOD | DRAGICEVICH, ZACHARY T | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18101309 | MULTI-STREAM HOLLOW-CONE NOZZLE | CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL | 29d |
| 18391782 | FILTER FOR HOLLOW-CONE NOZZLE BODY | SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | 70d |
| 18785259 | DISPENSING DEVICE FOR A FLUID | GRUBY, RANDALL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 2 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18785259 | DISPENSING DEVICE FOR A FLUID | GRUBY, RANDALL A | 3754 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18757901 | ADAPTER, FLUID DISPENSING DEVICE HAVING SAID ADAPTER, AND ASSEMBLY METHOD | DRAGICEVICH, ZACHARY T | 3679 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18391782 | FILTER FOR HOLLOW-CONE NOZZLE BODY | SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | 3752 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18101309 | MULTI-STREAM HOLLOW-CONE NOZZLE | CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL | 3752 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Jan 25, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAero Pump GmbH has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Randall A Gruby has the most, with 1 of Aero Pump GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
