Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
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
Grayl Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C, and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration indicates a highly focused prosecution footprint for the company's current filings.
GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This figure matches the total of 1 pending office action reported for the company. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the interaction with the patent office is streamlined under a single point of review.
The presence of 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials sector suggests a specific technical focus. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company faces a singular administrative path. This 1 busiest examiner pending action managed by GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C defines the current scope of prosecution for Grayl Inc.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 1 | 72.3% | +37.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18382983 | FLOW CONTROL DEVICE FOR FLUID FILTERING ASSEMBLY | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18382983 | FLOW CONTROL DEVICE FOR FLUID FILTERING ASSEMBLY | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 1773 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialGrayl Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Richard C Gurtowski has the most, with 1 of Grayl Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
