Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Restora Medical Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 pending matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. Both applications are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus for the current portfolio and a streamlined interaction with the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the company is GEDEON, BRIAN T, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is handling exactly one matter. This uniform distribution within a single art unit suggests that prosecution strategies for the 2 pending office actions may be influenced by the specific practices of that 1 distinct art unit.
Practitioners should note that while 2 distinct examiners are involved, their shared placement in 1 distinct art unit likely leads to a consistent examination environment. The focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering ensures that the company is engaging with a specialized group of examiners. Strategizing for the 2 pending office actions will require an understanding of both the individual styles of the examiners and the collective trends of the assigned art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEDEON, BRIAN T | 1 | 86.9% | +7.2% |
| MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | 1 | 55.9% | +20.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18967162 | MANAGING OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA THROUGH UPPER AIRWAY DUAL NEUROSTIMULATION | GEDEON, BRIAN T | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18742879 | MANAGING OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA THROUGH AIRWAY NEUROSTIMULATION | MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | 107d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18967162 | MANAGING OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA THROUGH UPPER AIRWAY DUAL NEUROSTIMULATION | GEDEON, BRIAN T | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18742879 | MANAGING OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA THROUGH AIRWAY NEUROSTIMULATION | MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 107d overdue | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
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