Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sky Labs Inc. manages a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There are currently 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a diversified approach to the company's medical and mechanical filings. This spread suggests that the company's technology is being evaluated by different specialized groups within the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is DOWNEY, JOHN R, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This accounts for a portion of the 2 pending office actions currently active. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's technology is being evaluated under different specialized criteria. For practitioners, this requires a prosecution strategy that can address the specific requirements of each art unit while maintaining consistency across the portfolio's active applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOWNEY, JOHN R | 1 | 60.0% | +23.6% |
| NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 1 | 52.7% | +40.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18692285 | BIOMETRIC DATA MONITORING PLATFORM USING BIOMETRIC SIGNAL SENSING RING | DOWNEY, JOHN R | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18692056 | DEEP LEARNING-BASED ATRIAL FIBRILLATION DETERMINATION SYSTEM USING PPG SIGNAL DETECTION RING | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 33d |
| 18692285 | BIOMETRIC DATA MONITORING PLATFORM USING BIOMETRIC SIGNAL SENSING RING | DOWNEY, JOHN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18692285 | BIOMETRIC DATA MONITORING PLATFORM USING BIOMETRIC SIGNAL SENSING RING | DOWNEY, JOHN R | 3792 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18692056 | DEEP LEARNING-BASED ATRIAL FIBRILLATION DETERMINATION SYSTEM USING PPG SIGNAL DETECTION RING | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSky Labs Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
John R Downey has the most, with 1 of Sky Labs Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
