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
BABY SOOTHE INC. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, WOODWARD, VALERIE LYNN, who is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action. The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit.
With only 1 pending office action, the company's current patent efforts are focused on a single matter. The involvement of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a streamlined review process. WOODWARD, VALERIE LYNN is the sole point of contact for the company's active prosecution.
The concentration of the workload under a single examiner suggests a streamlined prosecution process. Because there is only 1 busiest examiner pending action, the technical focus of the examination remains narrow. Practitioners working with WOODWARD, VALERIE LYNN will find that this individual manages the entirety of the company's currently pending work. This structure allows for a very specific legal strategy tailored to the preferences of a single examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOODWARD, VALERIE LYNN | 1 | 71.3% | +27.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18302126 | BABY SOOTHING DEVICES | WOODWARD, VALERIE LYNN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18302126 | BABY SOOTHING DEVICES | WOODWARD, VALERIE LYNN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18302126 | BABY SOOTHING DEVICES | WOODWARD, VALERIE LYNN | 3785 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBABY SOOTHE INC. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Valerie Lynn Woodward has the most, with 1 of BABY SOOTHE INC.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
