Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Brumate Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a compact portfolio with some repetition in examiner and art-unit assignments.
BALDRIGHI, ERIC C is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Coordinating the responses before that examiner may improve consistency, while the other assignment should receive its own technical and procedural review.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 2 | 41.8% | +40.2% |
| ZADEH, BOB | 1 | 76.9% | +38.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18583553 | LID-SECURING MECHANISM, BEVERAGE CONTAINER WITH LID-SECURING MECHANISM, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 53d |
| 18905116 | MAGNETICALLY STOWABLE DRINKING STRAW COVER | ZADEH, BOB | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18583553 | LID-SECURING MECHANISM, BEVERAGE CONTAINER WITH LID-SECURING MECHANISM, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 53d |
| 18971803 | NO SPILL STRAW | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | — |
| 18905116 | MAGNETICALLY STOWABLE DRINKING STRAW COVER | ZADEH, BOB | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 2 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18971803 | NO SPILL STRAW | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 3733 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18905116 | MAGNETICALLY STOWABLE DRINKING STRAW COVER | ZADEH, BOB | 3754 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18583553 | LID-SECURING MECHANISM, BEVERAGE CONTAINER WITH LID-SECURING MECHANISM, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 3733 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 53d | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBrumate Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Eric C Baldrighi has the most, with 2 of Brumate Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
