Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Eight Sleep Inc. has 6 pending office actions in Communications. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating that the active docket is distributed across both examination personnel and units, with some repeated examiner and unit activity.
ALAM, MIRZA F is the busiest listed examiner, with 3 pending matters. That examiner handles half of the pending office-action activity, making the assignment a practical point for coordinated review. Counsel should still account for the other examination contexts when maintaining consistent claim and amendment positions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 4 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALAM, MIRZA F | 3 | 74.4% | +33.9% |
| AVIGAN, ADAM JOSEPH | 2 | 43.7% | +16.3% |
| NEWTON, JASON TODD | 1 | 82.8% | +22.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19693152 | TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED MATTRESS COVER WITH ZONES | AVIGAN, ADAM JOSEPH | — |
| 19365921 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING OPERATIONS OF AN ARTICLE OF FURNITURE | NEWTON, JASON TODD | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18990538 | BED DEVICE SYSTEM AND METHODS | ALAM, MIRZA F | 21d |
| 19693152 | TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED MATTRESS COVER WITH ZONES | AVIGAN, ADAM JOSEPH | — |
| 19365921 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING OPERATIONS OF AN ARTICLE OF FURNITURE | NEWTON, JASON TODD | — |
| 19247631 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GATHERING AND ANALYZING HUMAN BIOLOGICAL SIGNALS | ALAM, MIRZA F | — |
| 18741237 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GATHERING AND ANALYZING HUMAN BIOLOGICAL SIGNALS | ALAM, MIRZA F | — |
| 17846376 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REGULATING A TEMPERATURE OF AN ARTICLE OF FURNITURE | AVIGAN, ADAM JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2688 | 3 |
| 3794 | 2 |
| 3673 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19693152 | TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED MATTRESS COVER WITH ZONES | AVIGAN, ADAM JOSEPH | 3794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2026 |
| 19365921 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING OPERATIONS OF AN ARTICLE OF FURNITURE | NEWTON, JASON TODD | 3673 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2025 |
| 19247631 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GATHERING AND ANALYZING HUMAN BIOLOGICAL SIGNALS | ALAM, MIRZA F | 2688 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 18990538 | BED DEVICE SYSTEM AND METHODS | ALAM, MIRZA F | 2688 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18741237 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GATHERING AND ANALYZING HUMAN BIOLOGICAL SIGNALS | ALAM, MIRZA F | 2688 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 17846376 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REGULATING A TEMPERATURE OF AN ARTICLE OF FURNITURE | AVIGAN, ADAM JOSEPH | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialEight Sleep Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Mirza F Alam has the most, with 3 of Eight Sleep Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
