Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Deflecto LLC maintains a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently manages 1 pending office action. This matter is located in 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a focused technical review. Prosecution is handled by a distinct examiner, which concentrates the company's current legal efforts on a single point of contact within the patent office.
The busiest examiner is BALDRIGHI, ERIC C, who is overseeing 1 pending office action, accounting for the full extent of the company's current pending matters. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution for this Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering portfolio is highly streamlined. This 1 pending office action is the sole focus of the company's current administrative activity. For Deflecto LLC, the reliance on a single examiner for its 1 pending office action indicates a very specific and localized prosecution strategy.
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 (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 | 42.2% | +41.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18885488 | CUSTOMIZABLE CADDY FOR TILT BINS | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 48d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18885488 | CUSTOMIZABLE CADDY FOR TILT BINS | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 3733 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 48d | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
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