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
Worthington Industries Inc. maintains a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Currently, the portfolio contains 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, which points to a singular area of mechanical or medical innovation for the company's current filings. For practitioners, this concentration suggests that the company's legal strategy is deeply embedded in a specific technical niche within the broader mechanical engineering sector.
The prosecution is conducted by 1 distinct examiner, GRUBY, RANDALL A. This individual is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in total, GRUBY, RANDALL A is the only examiner currently reviewing the company's applications. This 1 to 1 ratio between total pending actions and the busiest examiner's workload signifies that the company's immediate patenting success is entirely dependent on the decisions made by GRUBY, RANDALL A within that 1 art unit. This concentration requires the applicant to focus their advocacy on the specific requirements and interpretations of this single official.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18243530 | BAG ON VALVE ASSEMBLY | GRUBY, RANDALL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18243530 | BAG ON VALVE ASSEMBLY | GRUBY, RANDALL A | 3754 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialWorthington Industries Inc. 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 Worthington Industries Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
