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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gulfstream Inc. has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The profile identifies 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. KLOTZ, WILLIAM R, is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action.
The recorded prosecution activity is confined to the identified examiner and art unit. Counsel can focus response planning on that examination path and the applicable Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering issues. The profile does not show broader assignment activity.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KLOTZ, WILLIAM R | 1 | 39.4% | +54.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19171561 | FOOT SPA WITH DISPOSABLE PUMP | KLOTZ, WILLIAM R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19171561 | FOOT SPA WITH DISPOSABLE PUMP | KLOTZ, WILLIAM R | 3754 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialGulfstream Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
William R Klotz has the most, with 1 of Gulfstream Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
