Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
17 pending office actions • 12 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
G D S P A has 17 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 16 examiners and 12 art units, showing a docket distributed across both examiner and technical assignments. The near one-to-one relationship between actions and examiners means most matters will require separate prosecution attention.
COLLINS, MICHAEL is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending actions. Those matters provide the only identified examiner-level cluster for coordinated review. The 12 art units also suggest that counsel should preserve technical specialization when setting response workflows and evaluating recurring claim issues.
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 | 2 (12%) |
| §102 only | 2 (12%) |
| §112 only | 4 (24%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (47%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLLINS, MICHAEL | 2 | 70.8% | +22.9% |
| KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 1 | 74.4% | +57.1% |
| WEEKS, GLORIA R | 1 | 70.4% | +12.4% |
| MORRISON, THOMAS A | 1 | 74.1% | +30.1% |
| OH, HARRY Y | 1 | 85.4% | +16.7% |
| DEUBLE, MARK A | 1 | 88.2% | +8.2% |
| COLLINS, RAVEN | 1 | 62.6% | +10.2% |
| SHABMAN, MARK A | 1 | 84.0% | +13.1% |
| GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE | 1 | 66.7% | +34.5% |
| AVINA, RACHEL MARIE | 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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18998715 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CENTRING COMPONENTS | DEUBLE, MARK A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18006565 | CONTROL METHOD IN A PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR ARTICLES AND A PRODUCTION APPARATUS FOR ARTICLES OPERATING ACCORDING TO THIS METHOD | KINSAUL, ANNA KATHRYN | 8d overdue |
| 19474601 | MANUFACTURING MACHINE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF DISPOSABLE CARTRIDGES FOR ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | — |
| 19259111 | STORAGE UNIT FOR BLANKS AND RELATED METHOD | MORRISON, THOMAS A | — |
| 19126071 | PROCESS FOR THE AUTOMATED HANDLING OF PRODUCTS WITHIN A PLANT | OH, HARRY Y | — |
| 18873397 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TESTING THE TIGHTNESS OF CONTAINERS CLOSED BY RESPECTIVE MEMBRANES | SHABMAN, MARK A | — |
| 18840703 | ELECTRIC BATTERY | GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE | — |
| 18835435 | METHOD TO PRODUCE A BATTERY FOR ENERGY STORAGE | AVINA, RACHEL MARIE | — |
| 18722575 | Manufacturing Machine and Method for Manufacturing a Cylindrical Electrochemical Cell | PATEL, SUHANI JITENDRA | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19474601 | MANUFACTURING MACHINE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF DISPOSABLE CARTRIDGES FOR ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | — |
| 19154548 | METHOD AND MACHINE FOR FOLDING SHEETS | WEEKS, GLORIA R | — |
| 19259111 | STORAGE UNIT FOR BLANKS AND RELATED METHOD | MORRISON, THOMAS A | — |
| 19126071 | PROCESS FOR THE AUTOMATED HANDLING OF PRODUCTS WITHIN A PLANT | OH, HARRY Y | — |
| 18997662 | RESERVOIR AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE RESERVOIR | COLLINS, MICHAEL | — |
| 18996050 | BOX, IN PARTICULAR A SNUS BOX, WITH CHILD-PROOF SAFETY OPENING | COLLINS, RAVEN | — |
| 18880718 | RESERVOIR AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE RESERVOIR | COLLINS, MICHAEL | — |
| 18873397 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TESTING THE TIGHTNESS OF CONTAINERS CLOSED BY RESPECTIVE MEMBRANES | SHABMAN, MARK A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 4 |
| 3655 | 2 |
| 2855 | 2 |
| 3653 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| 3993 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19474601 | MANUFACTURING MACHINE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF DISPOSABLE CARTRIDGES FOR ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 3731 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2025 |
| 19154548 | METHOD AND MACHINE FOR FOLDING SHEETS | WEEKS, GLORIA R | 3731 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2025 |
| 19259111 | STORAGE UNIT FOR BLANKS AND RELATED METHOD | MORRISON, THOMAS A | 3653 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2025 |
| 19126071 | PROCESS FOR THE AUTOMATED HANDLING OF PRODUCTS WITHIN A PLANT | OH, HARRY Y | 3657 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 18998715 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CENTRING COMPONENTS | DEUBLE, MARK A | 3651 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18997662 | RESERVOIR AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE RESERVOIR | COLLINS, MICHAEL | 3655 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 18996050 | BOX, IN PARTICULAR A SNUS BOX, WITH CHILD-PROOF SAFETY OPENING | COLLINS, RAVEN | 3735 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18880718 | RESERVOIR AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE RESERVOIR | COLLINS, MICHAEL | 3655 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18873397 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TESTING THE TIGHTNESS OF CONTAINERS CLOSED BY RESPECTIVE MEMBRANES | SHABMAN, MARK A | 2855 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18840703 | ELECTRIC BATTERY | GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE | 1721 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18835435 | METHOD TO PRODUCE A BATTERY FOR ENERGY STORAGE | AVINA, RACHEL MARIE | 1734 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18789161 | FILLING UNIT FOR FILLING A SUCCESSION OF TUBULAR WRAPPERS OF THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY | TILL, TERRENCE R | 3993 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 181d overdue | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18722575 | Manufacturing Machine and Method for Manufacturing a Cylindrical Electrochemical Cell | PATEL, SUHANI JITENDRA | 1783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18662725 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MOVING TUBULAR BODIES | SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 1755 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18594871 | ELECTROMAGNETIC MEASURING DEVICE FOR MEASURING ONE OR MORE EXTENSIVE PROPERTIES OF A PRODUCT AND MEASURING METHOD THEREOF | HULS, NATALIE F | 2855 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18006565 | CONTROL METHOD IN A PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR ARTICLES AND A PRODUCTION APPARATUS FOR ARTICLES OPERATING ACCORDING TO THIS METHOD | KINSAUL, ANNA KATHRYN | 3731 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Jan 23, 2023 |
| 17798140 | A MACHINE AND METHOD FOR MAKING A CONTINUOUS TUBULAR ELEMENT WITH FILLING HAVING A SPACER AND/OR FILTER FUNCTION | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialG D S P A has 17 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 12 art units and 16 examiners.
Michael Collins has the most, with 2 of G D S P A's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
