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
General Fibre Products Corp. maintains a focused patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The current prosecution landscape includes 1 pending office action, which is being handled by 1 distinct examiner. This indicates a highly concentrated examination process where all active matters are consolidated under 1 individual. The portfolio is currently assigned to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow technical scope for the pending application.
ACKUN, JACOB K is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for 1 pending office action currently on record. Because the company has 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution strategy appears highly centralized. This singular focus suggests that the outcome of the current active matter will define the immediate success of the company's efforts in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering space. Practitioners should monitor the interactions with ACKUN, JACOB K as this examiner holds the entirety of the company's pending workload. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner with 1 distinct art unit suggests a streamlined path for the company's intellectual property development.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACKUN, JACOB K | 1 | 57.1% | +3.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19008950 | ENVIROTRAY INSERT FOR PROTECTING AN OBJECT WITHIN AN OUTER CONTAINER | ACKUN, JACOB K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19008950 | ENVIROTRAY INSERT FOR PROTECTING AN OBJECT WITHIN AN OUTER CONTAINER | ACKUN, JACOB K | 3736 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialGeneral Fibre Products Corp. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jacob K Ackun has the most, with 1 of General Fibre Products Corp.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
