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
R&D Innovations LLC is currently navigating 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity is highly focused, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. BALLMAN, CHRISTOPHER D is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling the 1 pending action.
The concentration of the portfolio's active matters in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector suggests a specialized filing strategy. Because there is only 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's current prosecution experience is limited to a single point of contact at the patent office. BALLMAN, CHRISTOPHER D manages the workload, representing the entirety of the company's current office action volume.
For a practitioner, this data indicates that the company's immediate patent strategy relies on the specific standards of the technical area. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit ensures that the prosecution remains within a specific technical silo. With only 1 pending office action, the current workload is minimal, allowing for a focused response to the examiner's findings.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALLMAN, CHRISTOPHER D | 1 | 77.0% | +20.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19226080 | Resin Transfer Molding Vent Bleeder Valve | BALLMAN, CHRISTOPHER D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19226080 | Resin Transfer Molding Vent Bleeder Valve | BALLMAN, CHRISTOPHER D | 3753 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialR&D Innovations LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Christopher D Ballman has the most, with 1 of R&D Innovations LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
