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
W L Gore & Associati S R L currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, concentrating the company's current patent efforts into a single review process. The company's progress in this field is currently dependent on the findings of this one examiner. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution is highly focused.
KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing the 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is the only current activity for the company within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector at the USPTO. The lack of multiple pending actions means the company does not have to coordinate between different examiner styles or art unit standards. However, it also means that the entire strategic outcome for this technology area rests on a single 1 pending office action. Practitioners should focus on the specific technical requirements of this 1 distinct art unit to ensure a successful prosecution. The concentrated nature of this portfolio simplifies administrative oversight.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 1 | 47.9% | +45.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19105026 | WATERPROOF AND WATER VAPOUR-PERMEABLE FOOTWEAR ARTICLES | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19105026 | WATERPROOF AND WATER VAPOUR-PERMEABLE FOOTWEAR ARTICLES | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19105026 | WATERPROOF AND WATER VAPOUR-PERMEABLE FOOTWEAR ARTICLES | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 3732 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialW L Gore & Associati S R L has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Katharine Gracz Kane has the most, with 1 of W L Gore & Associati S R L's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
