Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Grohe AG has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating complete examiner distribution within a narrower art-unit structure.
GORMAN, DARREN W is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The profile offers no repeat examiner concentration, but the shared art-unit structure may support comparison of technical and procedural issues across the separate assignments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GORMAN, DARREN W | 1 | 79.2% | +24.7% |
| BARRERA, JUAN C | 1 | 63.2% | +35.2% |
| LE, MINH Q | 1 | 80.7% | +16.3% |
| ZHOU, QINGZHANG | 1 | 67.3% | +24.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18037201 | A DEVICE FOR MOUNTING SANITARY EQUIPMENT TO A WALL AND A SANITARY INSTALLATION COMPRISING SUCH A DEVICE | LE, MINH Q | 15d |
| 19140494 | Shower Rose For A Plumbing Fixture | GORMAN, DARREN W | — |
| 18768393 | SHOWER HEAD FOR A WATER FAUCET | BARRERA, JUAN C | — |
| 18070838 | JET REGULATOR FOR A SANITARY FAUCET AND SANITARY FAUCET HAVING SUCH A JET REGULATOR | ZHOU, QINGZHANG | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18037201 | A DEVICE FOR MOUNTING SANITARY EQUIPMENT TO A WALL AND A SANITARY INSTALLATION COMPRISING SUCH A DEVICE | LE, MINH Q | 15d |
| 19140494 | Shower Rose For A Plumbing Fixture | GORMAN, DARREN W | — |
| 18768393 | SHOWER HEAD FOR A WATER FAUCET | BARRERA, JUAN C | — |
| 18070838 | JET REGULATOR FOR A SANITARY FAUCET AND SANITARY FAUCET HAVING SUCH A JET REGULATOR | ZHOU, QINGZHANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 3 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19140494 | Shower Rose For A Plumbing Fixture | GORMAN, DARREN W | 3752 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 18768393 | SHOWER HEAD FOR A WATER FAUCET | BARRERA, JUAN C | 3752 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18037201 | A DEVICE FOR MOUNTING SANITARY EQUIPMENT TO A WALL AND A SANITARY INSTALLATION COMPRISING SUCH A DEVICE | LE, MINH Q | 3753 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18070838 | JET REGULATOR FOR A SANITARY FAUCET AND SANITARY FAUCET HAVING SUCH A JET REGULATOR | ZHOU, QINGZHANG | 3752 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialGrohe AG has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Darren W Gorman has the most, with 1 of Grohe AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
