The Record · Inventor
Thirty US patents, and not one of them from an engineer.
Twenty-four utility patents and six design patents name Eric Sanchez as an inventor. He has no engineering degree. He built the systems because the firm needed them.
The Story
He taught himself databases because nobody else was going to.
Eric joined the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin in 2000 as employee number seven, hired as an office manager. The firm had no case-management software, so he taught himself database development and built its first one.
Two decades later that internal platform had become a legal CRM company spun out of the firm, and the portfolio had grown to thirty grants spanning intake analytics, data security, database management and interface design.
For a room full of leaders, the patents settle one question: he is not describing systems he studied. He is describing systems he built, which the USPTO examined and found novel.
On the Record
Complete USPTO grant documents for all thirty patents are available on request.
The Evidence
Grants and coverage.
All thirty, one by one.
Every grant below links to its own record at the United States Patent and Trademark Office via Google Patents. Twenty-four utility patents and six design patents, granted between 2017 and 2024.
A Google Patents search for the inventor name returns only part of this set — grants are indexed under more than one form of the name, and design patents often do not surface in an inventor query at all. The per-patent links below are the reliable way to check the count.
Utility patents (24)
- US 10,097,538User Authentication Systems and Methods
- US 10,339,192Matching Buzzwords in a Client Management System
- US 10,380,213Matching Buzzwords in a Client Management System
- US 10,503,790Database Searching Based on User-Definable Parameters
- US 10,656,794Database Searching Based on User-Definable Parameters and Automated Notifications in Response to Scores
- US 10,775,965Media Buy Loader, Graphical User Interface, and Method of Correlating Media Buys to Customer Intakes
- US 10,826,908Email Attachment Routing in a Client Management System
- US 10,956,527Handling Email in a Customer Management System
- US 11,010,440Matching Buzzwords in a Client Management System
- US 11,055,368Database Searching Based on User-Definable Parameters
- US 11,100,183Matching Buzzwords in a Client Management System
- US 11,243,664Database Searching Based on User-Definable Parameters and Automated Notifications in Response to Scores
- US 11,265,311User Authentication Systems and Methods
- US 11,271,942Email Attachment Routing in a Client Management System
- US 11,314,385Media Buy Loader, Graphical User Interface, and Method of Correlating Media Buys to Customer Intakes
- US 11,520,843Handling Email in a Customer Management System
- US 11,520,845Matching Buzzwords in a Client Management System
- US 11,599,248Database Searching Based on User-Definable Parameters and Automated Notifications in Response to Scores
- US 11,709,904Handling Email in a Customer Management System
- US 11,797,628Matching Buzzwords in a Client Management System
- US 11,924,197User Authentication Systems and Methods
- US 12,182,214Handling Email in a Customer Management System
- US 9,703,985Concealing a Personal Number
- US 9,785,312Database Searching Based on User-Definable Parameters
Design patents (6)
- US D837,252Display Screen or Portion Thereof with Graphical User Interface
- US D837,816Display Screen or Portion Thereof with Graphical User Interface
- US D837,817Display Screen or Portion Thereof with Graphical User Interface
- US D837,818Display Screen or Portion Thereof with Graphical User Interface
- US D837,819Display Screen or Portion Thereof with Graphical User Interface
- US D839,296Display Screen or Portion Thereof with Graphical User Interface
The Record
Built it, then patented it.
The technology talk comes from the person who shipped the software.