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
Jened LLC currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio suggests a technical focus for the company's current prosecution efforts. This focus allows for a streamlined management process, as the company does not need to coordinate across multiple technical divisions or examiner styles.
GRUBY, RANDALL A is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. This represents the entirety of the company's active prosecution workload. Practitioners should note that the limited number of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit indicates a narrow channel of interaction with the USPTO. The presence of only 1 pending office action suggests a targeted patent strategy at this stage. This structure minimizes the complexity of the company's legal interactions, focusing resources on a single examiner's requirements.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRUBY, RANDALL A | 1 | 62.4% | +43.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18999433 | INGREDIENT DISPENSERS | GRUBY, RANDALL A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18999433 | INGREDIENT DISPENSERS | GRUBY, RANDALL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18999433 | INGREDIENT DISPENSERS | GRUBY, RANDALL A | 3754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialJened LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Randall A Gruby has the most, with 1 of Jened LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
