Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rtic Outdoors LLC currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each case is reviewed by a different individual. Furthermore, the actions are located in 2 distinct art units, showing a complete lack of administrative overlap for the company's current cases. BALDRIGHI, ERIC C is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units is notable. No two actions share an examiner or an art unit, which may lead to different prosecution outcomes and timelines even within the same technology area. BALDRIGHI, ERIC C's status as the busiest examiner is shared with the other distinct examiner, as each has exactly 1 action. This profile suggests that Rtic Outdoors LLC is navigating two entirely separate paths within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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% |
| CHEYNEY, CHARLES | 1 | 56.7% | +42.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18204028 | INSULATING CONTAINER | CHEYNEY, CHARLES | 265d overdue |
| 18965811 | INSULATING CONTAINER | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 210d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18965811 | INSULATING CONTAINER | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 3733 | §103 | Final Rejection | 210d overdue | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18204028 | INSULATING CONTAINER | CHEYNEY, CHARLES | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 265d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialRtic Outdoors LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Eric C Baldrighi has the most, with 1 of Rtic Outdoors LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
