Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gpcp Ip Holdings LLC has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating one repeated examiner assignment and one repeated art-unit assignment within the pending docket.
AYALA, FERNANDO A is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Those matters warrant coordinated review for consistent positions, while the other pending actions require separate examiner-specific preparation.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 4 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AYALA, FERNANDO A | 2 | 53.7% | +26.0% |
| RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1 | 63.2% | +34.6% |
| ROBERTS, HERBERT K | 1 | 68.4% | +12.6% |
| STEVENS, ALLAN D | 1 | 41.5% | +50.3% |
| OJOFEITIMI, AYODEJI HARRY | 1 | 88.4% | -1.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18172406 | DUAL ROLL SHEET PRODUCT DISPENSER WITH COMPACT DESIGN | OJOFEITIMI, AYODEJI HARRY | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18781038 | PRODUCT LEVEL DETECTION APPARATUSES AND SYSTEMS FOR FLUID DISPENSERS | ROBERTS, HERBERT K | — |
| 18175029 | RIGID COMPARTMENTED PRESSWARE PLATE WITH TALL DIVIDERS | STEVENS, ALLAN D | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18242019 | SHEET PRODUCT DISPENSER WITH SPRING ASSEMBLY | AYALA, FERNANDO A | 45d overdue |
| 16226915 | Utensils for Stacking | AYALA, FERNANDO A | 45d overdue |
| 18869297 | EMBOSSED MULTI-PLY PAPER PRODUCTS AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | — |
| 18781038 | PRODUCT LEVEL DETECTION APPARATUSES AND SYSTEMS FOR FLUID DISPENSERS | ROBERTS, HERBERT K | — |
| 18175029 | RIGID COMPARTMENTED PRESSWARE PLATE WITH TALL DIVIDERS | STEVENS, ALLAN D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 2 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18869297 | EMBOSSED MULTI-PLY PAPER PRODUCTS AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1748 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18781038 | PRODUCT LEVEL DETECTION APPARATUSES AND SYSTEMS FOR FLUID DISPENSERS | ROBERTS, HERBERT K | 2855 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18242019 | SHEET PRODUCT DISPENSER WITH SPRING ASSEMBLY | AYALA, FERNANDO A | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
| 18175029 | RIGID COMPARTMENTED PRESSWARE PLATE WITH TALL DIVIDERS | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 3736 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2023 |
| 18172406 | DUAL ROLL SHEET PRODUCT DISPENSER WITH COMPACT DESIGN | OJOFEITIMI, AYODEJI HARRY | 3651 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2023 |
| 16226915 | Utensils for Stacking | AYALA, FERNANDO A | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Dec 20, 2018 |
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Start Free TrialGpcp Ip Holdings LLC has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Fernando A Ayala has the most, with 2 of Gpcp Ip Holdings LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
