Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Schmalz Flexible Gripping Inc. is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ensuring a focused prosecution environment. The administrative scope is similarly narrow, with the activity occurring in 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's current USPTO engagement is limited to a specific technical niche within the mechanical systems sector.
RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in the entire portfolio, this examiner handles the totality of the company's active cases. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner indicates that the company is not currently managing multiple simultaneous patent applications. For a practitioner, the outcome of the portfolio's current standing rests on the interaction with RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ | 1 | 74.6% | +7.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18524901 | MODULAR FINGERTIPS FOR SOFT ROBOTIC ACTUATORS | RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18524901 | MODULAR FINGERTIPS FOR SOFT ROBOTIC ACTUATORS | RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ | 3654 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSchmalz Flexible Gripping Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
William Arauz Rivera has the most, with 1 of Schmalz Flexible Gripping Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
