Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gstc LLC has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing that the pending work is divided between two examination assignments.
CHU, KING M is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. Counsel should prioritize coordination among those related matters while maintaining a separate strategy for the remaining examiner assignment.
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 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHU, KING M | 3 | 75.5% | +13.1% |
| CAUDILL, JUSTIN REED | 1 | 56.3% | +30.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19194929 | COMPOSITE CASE FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS | CHU, KING M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19266938 | VACUUM RETENTION SYSTEM CONTAINER HAVING VERTICAL WALLS WITH SOLID WELDS | CHU, KING M | — |
| 19265013 | VACUUM RETENTION SYSTEM CONTAINER WITH FARADAY-SHIELDING LAYER | CHU, KING M | — |
| 19194929 | COMPOSITE CASE FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS | CHU, KING M | — |
| 19188691 | GOLF BAG COVER WITH AIR-RELEASE CLUB RETENTION SYSTEM | CAUDILL, JUSTIN REED | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 3 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19266938 | VACUUM RETENTION SYSTEM CONTAINER HAVING VERTICAL WALLS WITH SOLID WELDS | CHU, KING M | 3735 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 |
| 19265013 | VACUUM RETENTION SYSTEM CONTAINER WITH FARADAY-SHIELDING LAYER | CHU, KING M | 3735 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2025 |
| 19194929 | COMPOSITE CASE FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS | CHU, KING M | 3735 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 19188691 | GOLF BAG COVER WITH AIR-RELEASE CLUB RETENTION SYSTEM | CAUDILL, JUSTIN REED | 3733 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialGstc LLC has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
King M Chu has the most, with 3 of Gstc LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
