Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Groz-Beckert KG is currently handling 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. The small scale of current activity suggests a focused prosecution phase for this filing. Practitioners can observe that the prosecution landscape is concentrated, with limited distribution across different technical groups.
The busiest examiner, WORRELL JR, LARRY D, manages 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there is 1 pending office action, this examiner is the sole official reviewing the company's current applications. The distinct art unit reflects a specific technical niche for this matter. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences of WORRELL JR, LARRY D to advance the pending office action toward allowance.
The involvement of WORRELL JR, LARRY D as the busiest examiner means that feedback and requirements originate from this specific source. This structure simplifies the coordination needed to address the 1 busiest examiner pending action. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific examination style of the examiner to advance the 1 pending office action toward allowance in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WORRELL JR, LARRY D | 1 | 82.8% | +9.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19140001 | COMPOUND NEEDLE FOR STITCH-FORMING TEXTILE MACHINES, STITCH-FORMING TEXTILE MACHINE AND METHOD FOR STITCH FORMATION | WORRELL JR, LARRY D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19140001 | COMPOUND NEEDLE FOR STITCH-FORMING TEXTILE MACHINES, STITCH-FORMING TEXTILE MACHINE AND METHOD FOR STITCH FORMATION | WORRELL JR, LARRY D | 3732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialGroz-Beckert KG has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Larry D Worrell Jr. has the most, with 1 of Groz-Beckert KG's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.