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
Gorilla Drum Inc. is facing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. The company's current interaction with the USPTO is focused on this one pending matter, which represents its full active prosecution landscape. For a company in the medical device sector, this 1 pending office action is the sole focus of its active patenting efforts, meaning the company's immediate intellectual property growth is tied to the resolution of this specific case.
NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the company's total count of active matters. The involvement of a distinct art unit suggests that the pending application falls within a specific technical group within the medical devices and mechanical engineering sector. Because there is only a single distinct examiner for the 1 pending office action, the company's prosecution strategy must be tailored specifically to the examination style and technical requirements of this official.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 1 | 30.1% | +39.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18373556 | SELF-STANDING FOLDABLE CONTAINER APPARATUSES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18373556 | SELF-STANDING FOLDABLE CONTAINER APPARATUSES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 3735 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialGorilla Drum Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Blaine Girma Neway has the most, with 1 of Gorilla Drum Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
