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
David Murrell operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with a portfolio currently showing 1 pending office action. This activity is confined to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. Such a concentrated profile implies that the prosecution strategy is currently focused on a very specific set of claims or technologies. The involvement of the 1 distinct art unit indicates a lack of jurisdictional variety in the current workload.
BALDRIGHI, ERIC C is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding the 1 pending office action. With only 1 distinct examiner involved, the applicant faces a singular set of examination criteria. This lack of examiner diversity means that the progress of the portfolio is tied directly to the review pace of this individual. For an applicant in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector, this concentration simplifies the management of pending matters but provides no internal benchmarks for examiner behavior. The company's immediate outcomes depend entirely on the 1 pending office action currently under 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 1 | 41.8% | +40.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18775582 | CANNISTER FOR CONTAINING A LIQUID | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 26d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18775582 | CANNISTER FOR CONTAINING A LIQUID | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 26d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18775582 | CANNISTER FOR CONTAINING A LIQUID | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 3733 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialDavid Murrell has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Eric C Baldrighi has the most, with 1 of David Murrell's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
