Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
13 pending office actions • 8 art units • 13 examiners • 6 of 13 (46%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
ResMed maintains 12 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution workload is distributed among 12 distinct examiners, resulting in a unique examiner for every pending action. These matters are categorized into 7 distinct art units, indicating that the portfolio covers a variety of specialized technical sub-sectors within the broader medical device field.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is BRUCE, FAROUK A, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 12 pending office actions and 12 distinct examiners, the company faces a broad range of individual examiner styles and preferences. The involvement of 7 distinct art units requires practitioners to navigate multiple supervisory chains and examination guidelines across the USPTO. This distribution across 12 distinct examiners ensures that each case receives individual attention from a different examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 6 (46%) |
| §103 only | 2 (15%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (31%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRUCE, FAROUK A | 1 | 48.8% | +38.4% |
| NGUYEN, TRAN N | 1 | 61.9% | +16.8% |
| SANA, MOHAMMAD AZAM | 1 | 86.3% | +20.8% |
| TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | 1 | 50.0% | +47.1% |
| LANDEEN, BROGAN RANE | 1 | 28.6% | -33.3% |
| LETT, THOMAS J | 1 | 84.0% | -34.9% |
| NG, JONATHAN K | 1 | 35.6% | +14.0% |
| MURPHY, VICTORIA | 1 | 62.2% | +46.1% |
| STUART, COLIN W | 1 | 57.9% | +55.2% |
| RHEE, KELSEY | 1 | 38.2% | +41.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18658854 | SENSOR-INTEGRATED MEDICAMENT DEVICE FOR DATA TRANSFER INTO A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT | LETT, THOMAS J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18687788 | BIOFEEDBACK COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY FOR INSOMNIA | NG, JONATHAN K | 77d overdue |
| 18879677 | MACHINE LEARNING TO SELECT TRANSMISSION TIMING | NGUYEN, TRAN N | 43d overdue |
| 19104141 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A RISK FACTOR FOR A CONDITION | BRUCE, FAROUK A | 49d |
| 18879472 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA RECONCILIATION FOR TRANSFER TO CLOUD STORAGE | SANA, MOHAMMAD AZAM | — |
| 18797938 | ACCELEROMETER-BASED USER INTERFACE LEAKAGE DETECTION | TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | — |
| 18673279 | Systems And Methods For Controlled Sleep Environment | LANDEEN, BROGAN RANE | — |
| 18574684 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHARACTERIZING A CONDUIT IN A RESPIRATORY THERAPY SYSTEM | MURPHY, VICTORIA | — |
| 18391121 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING TREATED AIR FOR A USER OF A RESPIRATORY THERAPY SYSTEM | STUART, COLIN W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18687788 | BIOFEEDBACK COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY FOR INSOMNIA | NG, JONATHAN K | 77d overdue |
| 18879677 | MACHINE LEARNING TO SELECT TRANSMISSION TIMING | NGUYEN, TRAN N | 43d overdue |
| 19104141 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A RISK FACTOR FOR A CONDITION | BRUCE, FAROUK A | 49d |
| 18879472 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA RECONCILIATION FOR TRANSFER TO CLOUD STORAGE | SANA, MOHAMMAD AZAM | — |
| 18797938 | ACCELEROMETER-BASED USER INTERFACE LEAKAGE DETECTION | TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | — |
| 18574684 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHARACTERIZING A CONDUIT IN A RESPIRATORY THERAPY SYSTEM | MURPHY, VICTORIA | — |
| 18391121 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING TREATED AIR FOR A USER OF A RESPIRATORY THERAPY SYSTEM | STUART, COLIN W | — |
| 18494760 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING FIT OF A USER INTERFACE | RHEE, KELSEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 3 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3685 | 1 |
| 2166 | 1 |
| 2611 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 2455 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19104141 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A RISK FACTOR FOR A CONDITION | BRUCE, FAROUK A | 3797 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 49d | AI Ready | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 18879677 | MACHINE LEARNING TO SELECT TRANSMISSION TIMING | NGUYEN, TRAN N | 3685 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | AI Ready | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18879472 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA RECONCILIATION FOR TRANSFER TO CLOUD STORAGE | SANA, MOHAMMAD AZAM | 2166 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18797938 | ACCELEROMETER-BASED USER INTERFACE LEAKAGE DETECTION | TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18673279 | Systems And Methods For Controlled Sleep Environment | LANDEEN, BROGAN RANE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18658854 | SENSOR-INTEGRATED MEDICAMENT DEVICE FOR DATA TRANSFER INTO A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT | LETT, THOMAS J | 2611 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | AI Ready | May 08, 2024 |
| 18687788 | BIOFEEDBACK COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY FOR INSOMNIA | NG, JONATHAN K | 3619 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 77d overdue | AI Ready | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18574684 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHARACTERIZING A CONDUIT IN A RESPIRATORY THERAPY SYSTEM | MURPHY, VICTORIA | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18391121 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING TREATED AIR FOR A USER OF A RESPIRATORY THERAPY SYSTEM | STUART, COLIN W | 3785 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18494760 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING FIT OF A USER INTERFACE | RHEE, KELSEY | 3785 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
| 18492779 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A DEGREE OF DEGRADATION OF A USER INTERFACE | BALLER, KELSEY E | 3785 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
| 18473754 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYSIS OF APP USE AND WAKE-UP TIMES TO DETERMINE USER ACTIVITY | ANTOINE, LISA HOPE | 3715 | §102 | Final Rejection | 12d | AI Ready | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18086280 | MACHINE LEARNING TO MONITOR NETWORK CONNECTIVITY | HWANG, JOON H | 2455 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | AI Ready | Dec 21, 2022 |
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