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
Murray Sporting Goods LLC manages a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio shows 1 pending office action, which represents the entirety of the company's current prosecution activity. This 1 action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused examination path for the company's intellectual property.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A., who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner's workload accounts for the full scope of the company's outstanding responses. This suggests that the prosecution strategy is currently limited to 1 point of contact within the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A. | 1 | 40.8% | +37.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17578250 | MARKING APPARATUS USED FOR CREATING LINES ON A SURFACE | GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A. | 5d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17578250 | MARKING APPARATUS USED FOR CREATING LINES ON A SURFACE | GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A. | 3711 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Jan 18, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMurray Sporting Goods LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Christopher A. Glenn has the most, with 1 of Murray Sporting Goods LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.