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
Grifols Engineering S A operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The data also shows that the prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a concentrated legal environment where the company's current patent application is being reviewed by a single official in a specific technical department.
The busiest examiner for the company is CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C, who holds 1 pending office action. This count is identical to the 1 total pending office action for the portfolio. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C. Because the number of distinct examiners is 1 and the number of distinct art units is 1, there is no diversity in the current review process. The 1 pending action represents the entire active workload, making the interaction with CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C the primary factor for the portfolio's current success.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C | 1 | 59.7% | +18.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18503086 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR STERILIZING FLEXIBLE BAGS BY ELECTRON BEAM IRRADIATION | CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18503086 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR STERILIZING FLEXIBLE BAGS BY ELECTRON BEAM IRRADIATION | CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C | 1774 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialGrifols Engineering S A has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Timothy C Cleveland has the most, with 1 of Grifols Engineering S A's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
