Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nox Medical Ehf has 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are concentrated in 2 distinct art units, suggesting a focused technological scope for the company's current patent applications. The use of these specialized groups for the 4 pending office actions indicates that multiple applications are being reviewed within the same areas at the patent office.
The prosecution workload is distributed among 3 distinct examiners. JESSANDRA F HOUGH is the busiest examiner, managing 2 pending office actions. This concentration means that a portion of the company's pending office actions are being handled by a single examiner, while the remaining actions are split among the other distinct examiners. This arrangement results in JESSANDRA F HOUGH having a higher workload for this portfolio compared to the other officials involved. The use of multiple examiners across a small number of art units suggests a collaborative yet specialized review process.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | 2 | 45.6% | +35.8% |
| AGAHI, PUYA | 1 | 49.2% | +24.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17026844 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING SLEEP STAGES BASED ON NON-CARDIAC BODY SIGNALS | AGAHI, PUYA | 104d overdue |
| 18608526 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AROUSALS AND AROUSAL-ASSOCIATED EVENTS OF A SLEEP STUDY USING NON-BRAIN BODY SIGNALS OR WITHOUT REQUIRING BRAIN SIGNALS | HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | 10d overdue |
| 18889280 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AND MONITORING SLEEP DISORDERS BASED ON DETERMINED AROUSALS AND AROUSAL-ASSOCIATED EVENTS USING NON-BRAIN BODY SIGNALS OR WITHOUT REQUIRING BRAIN SIGNALS | HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17026844 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING SLEEP STAGES BASED ON NON-CARDIAC BODY SIGNALS | AGAHI, PUYA | 104d overdue |
| 18608526 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AROUSALS AND AROUSAL-ASSOCIATED EVENTS OF A SLEEP STUDY USING NON-BRAIN BODY SIGNALS OR WITHOUT REQUIRING BRAIN SIGNALS | HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | 10d overdue |
| 18889280 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AND MONITORING SLEEP DISORDERS BASED ON DETERMINED AROUSALS AND AROUSAL-ASSOCIATED EVENTS USING NON-BRAIN BODY SIGNALS OR WITHOUT REQUIRING BRAIN SIGNALS | HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18889280 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AND MONITORING SLEEP DISORDERS BASED ON DETERMINED AROUSALS AND AROUSAL-ASSOCIATED EVENTS USING NON-BRAIN BODY SIGNALS OR WITHOUT REQUIRING BRAIN SIGNALS | HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18608526 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AROUSALS AND AROUSAL-ASSOCIATED EVENTS OF A SLEEP STUDY USING NON-BRAIN BODY SIGNALS OR WITHOUT REQUIRING BRAIN SIGNALS | HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | 3796 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 17026844 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING SLEEP STAGES BASED ON NON-CARDIAC BODY SIGNALS | AGAHI, PUYA | 3791 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 104d overdue | Pending | Sep 21, 2020 |
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