Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Gebr Heller Maschinenfabrik GmbH has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matter is assigned to 1 examiner and 1 art unit, indicating a tightly focused prosecution path.
FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The next response can be planned around one examiner’s record and one technical unit’s practice.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 76.2% | +39.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18394335 | Rack magazine with setup unit | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18394335 | Rack magazine with setup unit | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18394335 | Rack magazine with setup unit | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 3726 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialGebr Heller Maschinenfabrik GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Darrell Christopher Ford has the most, with 1 of Gebr Heller Maschinenfabrik GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
