Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sleep Solutions Inc. has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 3 examiners and 3 art units, so the portfolio has repeated examiner assignments while remaining distributed across technical groups.
BABAA, NAEL N is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. This concentration supports a focused review of that examiner's treatment and possible consistency in claim and amendment strategy.
The remaining examiner and art-unit assignments should be handled separately where their practices differ.
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 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BABAA, NAEL N | 3 | 77.1% | +3.9% |
| THROOP, MYLES A | 1 | 58.5% | +40.1% |
| COX, THADDEUS B | 1 | 77.0% | +18.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17870249 | VIRTUAL REALITY AND AUGMENTED REALITY HEADSETS FOR MEDITATION APPLICATIONS | COX, THADDEUS B | 73d overdue |
| 19080891 | STRESS REDUCTION AND SLEEP PROMOTION SYSTEM | BABAA, NAEL N | — |
| 18999044 | SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING SLEEP RECOVERY AND PROMOTING WEIGHT LOSS | BABAA, NAEL N | — |
| 18827987 | Devices and Systems to Control Bed Temperature and Moisture Level | THROOP, MYLES A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17870249 | VIRTUAL REALITY AND AUGMENTED REALITY HEADSETS FOR MEDITATION APPLICATIONS | COX, THADDEUS B | 73d overdue |
| 18827987 | Devices and Systems to Control Bed Temperature and Moisture Level | THROOP, MYLES A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 3 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19080891 | STRESS REDUCTION AND SLEEP PROMOTION SYSTEM | BABAA, NAEL N | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 16, 2025 |
| 18999044 | SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING SLEEP RECOVERY AND PROMOTING WEIGHT LOSS | BABAA, NAEL N | 3763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18827987 | Devices and Systems to Control Bed Temperature and Moisture Level | THROOP, MYLES A | 3679 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18827213 | ARTICLE COMPRISING A TEMPERATURE-CONDITIONED SURFACE, THERMOELECTRIC CONTROL UNIT, AND METHOD FOR TEMPERATURE-CONDITIONING THE SURFACE OF AN ARTICLE | BABAA, NAEL N | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 17870249 | VIRTUAL REALITY AND AUGMENTED REALITY HEADSETS FOR MEDITATION APPLICATIONS | COX, THADDEUS B | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Jul 21, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSleep Solutions Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Nael N Babaa has the most, with 3 of Sleep Solutions Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
