Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 3 art units • 10 examiners • 4 of 10 (40%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
ResMed manages 10 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are concentrated in 3 distinct art units, indicating that the pending applications cover a specific range of technical subjects. The portfolio involves 10 distinct examiners, meaning that every pending case is being reviewed by a different individual.
The busiest examiner for this company is LEE, MICHELLE J, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. With 10 pending office actions in total, the workload is completely distributed across the 10 distinct examiners. This high ratio of examiners to cases suggests that prosecution strategies may need to account for many different examiner perspectives despite the focus on 3 distinct art units. Practitioners should leverage the technical commonalities within the 3 distinct art units while tailoring arguments to the 10 distinct examiners.
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 | 3 (30%) |
| §103 only | 2 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, MICHELLE J | 1 | 39.8% | +60.2% |
| DIXON, ANNETTE FREDRICKA | 1 | 74.4% | +26.0% |
| BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | 1 | 58.6% | +58.7% |
| BOECKER, JOSEPH D | 1 | 83.6% | +23.0% |
| KHONG, BRIAN THAI-BINH | 1 | 67.1% | +36.9% |
| OKONAK, ELIZABETH LOUISE | 1 | 16.7% | +83.3% |
| ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | 1 | 64.0% | +37.3% |
| CHANG, THOMAS ZHU | 1 | 50.0% | +65.8% |
| LUARCA, MARGARET M | 1 | 74.3% | +18.7% |
| DALE, ABIGAYLE ANN | 1 | 41.7% | +68.8% |
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 |
| 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 | — |
| 17780487 | APPLICATION TO GUIDE MASK FITTING | DALE, ABIGAYLE ANN | — |
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 |
| 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 | — |
| 18573729 | A PATIENT INTERFACE AND A POSITIONING AND STABILISING STRUCTURE FOR A PATIENT INTERFACE | ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 4 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18692784 | A POSITIONING AND STABILISING STRUCTURE FOR A PATIENT INTERFACE | BOECKER, JOSEPH D | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18686042 | POSITIONING AND STABILISING STRUCTURES FOR PATIENT INTERFACES | KHONG, BRIAN THAI-BINH | — | §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 | — | §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 |
| 17780487 | APPLICATION TO GUIDE MASK FITTING | DALE, ABIGAYLE ANN | 3785 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | AI Ready | May 26, 2022 |
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