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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gfm GmbH is currently processing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's prosecution is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit and involves 1 distinct examiner. This indicates a very narrow and specific area of focus for the company's current patenting activities. Such a concentrated footprint often reflects a specialized product line or a very specific technical improvement within this specialized domain.
The busiest examiner assigned to this portfolio is EKIERT, TERESA M, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there is only 1 pending action in total, this examiner handles the entire current workload for Gfm GmbH. This centralized prosecution allows for a singular focus on the requirements of the 1 distinct art unit. The practitioner can dedicate all efforts to this 1 distinct examiner, as there are no other pending office actions to consider in the current data set with EKIERT, TERESA M.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EKIERT, TERESA M | 1 | 79.4% | +3.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18558199 | HOT FORMING A CAST FORGING INGOT | EKIERT, TERESA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18558199 | HOT FORMING A CAST FORGING INGOT | EKIERT, TERESA M | 3725 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialGfm GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Teresa M Ekiert has the most, with 1 of Gfm GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
