Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Prosomnus Sleep Technologies Inc. currently has 6 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 6 actions are assigned to 6 distinct examiners, resulting in a one-to-one ratio of pending matters to examiners. This distribution of personnel is spread across 5 distinct art units. Such a distribution indicates that the company's applications are being reviewed by a wide variety of individuals across several different technical groups at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is GRAHAM, ANDREW D, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This matches the workload of every other examiner currently handling the company's applications. The presence of 5 distinct art units for only 6 pending office actions indicates a high degree of technical variety, with almost every pending matter in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector falling into a different specialized art unit. This requires a versatile prosecution approach to address the unique requirements of 5 different technical divisions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAHAM, ANDREW D | 1 | 59.7% | +22.8% |
| MILO, MICHAEL | 1 | 50.8% | +52.5% |
| MORALES, JON ERIC C | 1 | 85.4% | +10.0% |
| MAI, HAO D | 1 | 49.3% | +39.3% |
| HAN, ROBIN | 1 | 33.8% | +61.8% |
| DOWNEY, JOHN R | 1 | 59.7% | +23.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18646747 | INTRA-ORAL DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THEM | MORALES, JON ERIC C | 31d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18917933 | COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN MATRIX FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF DENTAL DEVICES | GRAHAM, ANDREW D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18028453 | POLYMERIC MANDIBULAR ADVANCEMENT DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THEM | HAN, ROBIN | 127d overdue |
| 18646657 | PRECISION ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING SAME | MAI, HAO D | 111d overdue |
| 17640775 | ACCESSORIES FOR A MANDIBLE ADVANCEMENT DEVICE | DOWNEY, JOHN R | 56d overdue |
| 18821902 | SYMMETRICAL ADVANCEMENT OF MANDIBLE | MILO, MICHAEL | 49d overdue |
| 18646747 | INTRA-ORAL DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THEM | MORALES, JON ERIC C | 31d overdue |
| 18917933 | COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN MATRIX FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF DENTAL DEVICES | GRAHAM, ANDREW D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 2 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3772 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18917933 | COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN MATRIX FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF DENTAL DEVICES | GRAHAM, ANDREW D | 1742 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18821902 | SYMMETRICAL ADVANCEMENT OF MANDIBLE | MILO, MICHAEL | 3786 | §112DP | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18646747 | INTRA-ORAL DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THEM | MORALES, JON ERIC C | 3796 | §102 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18646657 | PRECISION ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING SAME | MAI, HAO D | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | 111d overdue | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18028453 | POLYMERIC MANDIBULAR ADVANCEMENT DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THEM | HAN, ROBIN | 3786 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 127d overdue | Pending | Mar 24, 2023 |
| 17640775 | ACCESSORIES FOR A MANDIBLE ADVANCEMENT DEVICE | DOWNEY, JOHN R | 3700 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d overdue | Pending | Mar 04, 2022 |
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