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
Gimbel Group LLC Dba Gimbel Automation holds a company patent portfolio with 1 pending office action. This action is located within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio's current activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner.
CADUGAN, ERICA E is the busiest examiner for this entity, currently managing 1 pending office action. This figure represents the total volume of the company's pending workload at the office. The concentration of the matter under CADUGAN, ERICA E within the 1 distinct art unit suggests a very focused prosecution effort.
For a practitioner, the strategy for this portfolio is entirely dependent on the interaction with the busiest examiner. With the 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector, there is a lack of opportunity for cross-application strategy or examiner comparison within the current data set. The outcome of this matter will define the current success of the company's pending portfolio. This prosecution requires a direct and specific approach to the 1 distinct examiner involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CADUGAN, ERICA E | 1 | 63.1% | +50.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19401217 | INTERNAL PALLET LOADER FOR CNC MACHINE | CADUGAN, ERICA E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3722 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19401217 | INTERNAL PALLET LOADER FOR CNC MACHINE | CADUGAN, ERICA E | 3722 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialGimbel Group LLC Dba Gimbel Automation has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Erica E Cadugan has the most, with 1 of Gimbel Group LLC Dba Gimbel Automation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
