Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 3 art units • 10 examiners • 3 of 10 (30%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
ResMed has 11 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 11 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units, creating substantial examiner-level coordination needs within a narrower set of technical units.
RUSSELL, SYDNEY REYES is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The recorded distribution means no single examiner dominates the portfolio. Counsel should maintain a central claim and disclosure matrix, then adapt each response to the relevant art unit and examiner while monitoring consistency across the medical-device matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (20%) |
| §103 only | 2 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUSSELL, SYDNEY REYES | 1 | 51.4% | +56.8% |
| LEE, MICHELLE J | 1 | 39.8% | +60.2% |
| DIXON, ANNETTE FREDRICKA | 1 | 74.3% | +26.0% |
| BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | 1 | 58.5% | +59.0% |
| BOECKER, JOSEPH D | 1 | 83.7% | +22.9% |
| KHONG, BRIAN THAI-BINH | 1 | 66.7% | +37.2% |
| OKONAK, ELIZABETH LOUISE | 1 | 14.3% | +85.7% |
| ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | 1 | 64.0% | +37.3% |
| CHANG, THOMAS ZHU | 1 | 52.2% | +66.9% |
| LUARCA, MARGARET M | 1 | 74.2% | +19.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17908087 | BREATH DETECTION WITH MOVEMENT COMPENSATION | LUARCA, MARGARET M | 154d overdue |
| 18413597 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING SLEEP | OKONAK, ELIZABETH LOUISE | 33d |
| 18866925 | PERIPHERAL DETECTION METHODS AND APPARATUS | RUSSELL, SYDNEY REYES | — |
| 18646197 | PATIENT INTERFACE AND COMPONENTS THEREOF | DIXON, ANNETTE FREDRICKA | — |
| 18694875 | POSITIONING AND STABILISING STRUCTURES FOR PATIENT INTERFACES | BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | — |
| 18692784 | A POSITIONING AND STABILISING STRUCTURE FOR A PATIENT INTERFACE | BOECKER, JOSEPH D | — |
| 18686042 | POSITIONING AND STABILISING STRUCTURES FOR PATIENT INTERFACES | KHONG, BRIAN THAI-BINH | — |
| 18026313 | POSITIONING AND STABILISING STRUCTURE WITH TEXTILE SLEEVE | CHANG, THOMAS ZHU | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17908087 | BREATH DETECTION WITH MOVEMENT COMPENSATION | LUARCA, MARGARET M | 154d overdue |
| 18922559 | HEADGEAR | LEE, MICHELLE J | 37d overdue |
| 18413597 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING SLEEP | OKONAK, ELIZABETH LOUISE | 33d |
| 18866925 | PERIPHERAL DETECTION METHODS AND APPARATUS | RUSSELL, SYDNEY REYES | — |
| 18646197 | PATIENT INTERFACE AND COMPONENTS THEREOF | DIXON, ANNETTE FREDRICKA | — |
| 18694875 | POSITIONING AND STABILISING STRUCTURES FOR PATIENT INTERFACES | BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | — |
| 18692784 | A POSITIONING AND STABILISING STRUCTURE FOR A PATIENT INTERFACE | BOECKER, JOSEPH D | — |
| 18686042 | POSITIONING AND STABILISING STRUCTURES FOR PATIENT INTERFACES | KHONG, BRIAN THAI-BINH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 8 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18866925 | PERIPHERAL DETECTION METHODS AND APPARATUS | RUSSELL, SYDNEY REYES | 3785 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18922559 | HEADGEAR | LEE, MICHELLE J | 3786 | §103 | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | AI Ready | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18646197 | PATIENT INTERFACE AND COMPONENTS THEREOF | DIXON, ANNETTE FREDRICKA | 3785 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18694875 | POSITIONING AND STABILISING STRUCTURES FOR PATIENT INTERFACES | BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | 3785 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18692784 | A POSITIONING AND STABILISING STRUCTURE FOR A PATIENT INTERFACE | BOECKER, JOSEPH D | 3785 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18686042 | POSITIONING AND STABILISING STRUCTURES FOR PATIENT INTERFACES | KHONG, BRIAN THAI-BINH | 3785 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18413597 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING SLEEP | OKONAK, ELIZABETH LOUISE | 3792 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 33d | AI Ready | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 18573729 | A PATIENT INTERFACE AND A POSITIONING AND STABILISING STRUCTURE FOR A PATIENT INTERFACE | ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18026313 | POSITIONING AND STABILISING STRUCTURE WITH TEXTILE SLEEVE | CHANG, THOMAS ZHU | 3785 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2023 |
| 17908087 | BREATH DETECTION WITH MOVEMENT COMPENSATION | LUARCA, MARGARET M | 3785 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 154d overdue | AI Ready | Aug 30, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialResMed has 10 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 10 examiners.
Sydney Reyes Russell has the most, with 1 of ResMed's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
