Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Obrist Closures Switzerland GmbH is currently managing 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. All 4 pending office actions are located within 1 distinct art units, showing a high degree of technical concentration in the company's patent filings. Despite this focus, the prosecution is spread across 4 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual.
BALDRIGHI, ERIC C is identified as the busiest examiner, though they are only responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there are 4 distinct examiners for the 4 pending office actions, no single examiner holds multiple cases. This distribution within 1 distinct art units suggests that while the subject matter is consistent, the company will need to navigate four different examiner approaches to secure its intellectual property.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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% |
| ARIF, NOAH JACOB | 1 | — | — |
| ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 1 | 48.1% | +26.7% |
| SMALLEY, JAMES N | 1 | 70.7% | -9.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19197690 | CLOSURE | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 4d overdue |
| 18880598 | REUSABLE CLOSURES | ARIF, NOAH JACOB | — |
| 18850336 | CLOSURES FOR A FLOWABLE PRODUCT | ALLEN, JEFFREY R | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19197690 | CLOSURE | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 4d overdue |
| 18850336 | CLOSURES FOR A FLOWABLE PRODUCT | ALLEN, JEFFREY R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19197690 | CLOSURE | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 3733 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 18880598 | REUSABLE CLOSURES | ARIF, NOAH JACOB | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18850336 | CLOSURES FOR A FLOWABLE PRODUCT | ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 3733 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18893045 | CLOSURE | SMALLEY, JAMES N | 3733 | DP | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
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