Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aero Pump GmbH is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, with each examiner handling a single case. Furthermore, the actions are spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating that each of the company's pending matters is being reviewed in a different technical department within the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is GRUBY, RANDALL A, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that there are 3 pending office actions in total, the workload is perfectly distributed among the examiners. This means that the applicant must navigate different examiner perspectives and 3 distinct art units simultaneously. The lack of overlap in examiners or art units suggests a diverse range of mechanical and medical innovations being prosecuted.
Practitioners for Aero Pump GmbH must be prepared for a variety of feedback, as the 3 pending office actions are not concentrated under any single individual or department. Since GRUBY, RANDALL A and the other examiners each manage only one action, there is no opportunity to leverage a single examiner's preferences across multiple cases. The focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering provides the only common thread across these 3 distinct art units, requiring a versatile prosecution strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 | 79.6% | +4.7% |
| 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18101309 | MULTI-STREAM HOLLOW-CONE NOZZLE | CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL | 29d |
| 18785259 | DISPENSING DEVICE FOR A FLUID | GRUBY, RANDALL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| 3752 | 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 |
| 18101309 | MULTI-STREAM HOLLOW-CONE NOZZLE | CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL | 3752 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Jan 25, 2023 |
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