Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
25 pending office actions • 9 art units • 22 examiners • 0 of 25 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Snbr Inc. is actively prosecuting 26 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This volume of work is spread across 22 distinct examiners and 9 distinct art units. GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 3 pending office actions.
The 26 pending office actions are largely individualized, as 22 distinct examiners are involved in the process. The involvement of 9 distinct art units means that prosecution strategies may need to be tailored to various internal office cultures and standards. The high number of distinct examiners relative to the total pending actions suggests that institutional knowledge of the company's technology is dispersed across a broad segment of the examining corps.
This variety requires practitioners to manage multiple examiner preferences and art unit specificities simultaneously. The majority of the actions are handled by examiners who only have a single case on their desk at this time. This decentralized structure may require more coordination to ensure consistency across the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 10 (40%) |
| §103 only | 6 (24%) |
| §102 only | 2 (8%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (4%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (16%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KURILLA, ERIC J | 2 | 70.6% | +26.4% |
| GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL | 2 | 69.5% | +40.5% |
| HOLMES, REX R | 2 | 80.2% | +17.9% |
| GEDEON, DEBORAH TALITHA | 1 | 56.4% | +59.5% |
| HARE, DAVID R | 1 | 67.6% | +32.5% |
| CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | 1 | 76.9% | +17.4% |
| TOMASZEWSKI, MICHAEL | 1 | 47.9% | +22.2% |
| HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 1 | 56.5% | +39.1% |
| DIETRICH, JOSEPH M | 1 | 80.8% | +8.6% |
| KASENGE, CHARLES R | 1 | 84.0% | +13.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18926470 | BED HAVING FEATURES FOR IMPROVING A SLEEPER'S BODY THERMOREGULATION DURING SLEEP | DIETRICH, JOSEPH M | — |
| 18749089 | SENSOR CALIBRATION USEFUL FOR SMART BEDS WITH MULTIPLE SENSORS | KASENGE, CHARLES R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18084944 | BED HAVING FEATURES TO PASSIVELY MONITOR BLOOD PRESSURE | BERHANU, ETSUB D | 60d overdue |
| 17672492 | BED HAVING FEATURES FOR SENSING SLEEPER PRESSURE AND GENERATING ESTIMATES OF BRAIN ACTIVITY | SHAH, JAY B | 42d overdue |
| 17541921 | BED HAVING FEATURES FOR AUTOMATIC SENSING OF ILLNESS STATES | HOLMES, REX R | 42d overdue |
| 17902417 | SLEEP SYSTEM WITH FEATURES FOR PERSONALIZED DAYTIME ALERTNESS QUANTIFICATION | SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 8d |
| 18104634 | BED WITH FEATURES FOR DETERMINING RISK OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE | HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA | 33d |
| 19335153 | BED SYSTEM WITH DEVICE CHARGING STORAGE POCKETS | GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL | — |
| 19272242 | Distribution Pad for a Temperature Control System | HARE, DAVID R | — |
| 18986341 | BED HAVING FEATURES FOR DETERMINING RISK OF CARDIAC CONDITIONS INCLUDING ATRIAL FIBRILLATION | TOMASZEWSKI, MICHAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17541921 | BED HAVING FEATURES FOR AUTOMATIC SENSING OF ILLNESS STATES | HOLMES, REX R | 42d overdue |
| 19416200 | BED CONNECTION INTERFACE | KURILLA, ERIC J | — |
| 19343582 | BED WITH FEATURES FOR ESTIMATING ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE | GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL | — |
| 19336877 | BED MICROCLIMATE CONTROL USING HUMIDITY MEASUREMENTS | KURILLA, ERIC J | — |
| 19335153 | BED SYSTEM WITH DEVICE CHARGING STORAGE POCKETS | GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL | — |
| 19292187 | Bed With Integrated Climate Control | GEDEON, DEBORAH TALITHA | — |
| 19272242 | Distribution Pad for a Temperature Control System | HARE, DAVID R | — |
| 19031136 | PARTNER SNORE FEATURE FOR ADJUSTABLE BED FOUNDATION | CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3673 | 5 |
| 3796 | 4 |
| 3791 | 3 |
| 3619 | 2 |
| 3684 | 2 |
| 3792 | 2 |
| 2689 | 1 |
| 2171 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19416200 | BED CONNECTION INTERFACE | KURILLA, ERIC J | 3619 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2025 |
| 19343582 | BED WITH FEATURES FOR ESTIMATING ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE | GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL | 3673 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2025 |
| 19336877 | BED MICROCLIMATE CONTROL USING HUMIDITY MEASUREMENTS | KURILLA, ERIC J | 3619 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2025 |
| 19335153 | BED SYSTEM WITH DEVICE CHARGING STORAGE POCKETS | GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL | 3673 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2025 |
| 19292187 | Bed With Integrated Climate Control | GEDEON, DEBORAH TALITHA | 3673 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2025 |
| 19272242 | Distribution Pad for a Temperature Control System | HARE, DAVID R | 3673 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 |
| 19031136 | PARTNER SNORE FEATURE FOR ADJUSTABLE BED FOUNDATION | CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | 2689 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18986341 | BED HAVING FEATURES FOR DETERMINING RISK OF CARDIAC CONDITIONS INCLUDING ATRIAL FIBRILLATION | TOMASZEWSKI, MICHAEL | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18982924 | BED WITH SENSING FEATURES TO DETERMINE HYPOXIA BURDEN OF A SUBJECT | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18926470 | BED HAVING FEATURES FOR IMPROVING A SLEEPER'S BODY THERMOREGULATION DURING SLEEP | DIETRICH, JOSEPH M | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18749089 | SENSOR CALIBRATION USEFUL FOR SMART BEDS WITH MULTIPLE SENSORS | KASENGE, CHARLES R | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18390764 | LONG TERM SENSING OF SLEEP PHENOMENA | WRIGHT, KRYSTEN NIKOLE | 3796 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18240016 | Multidimensional Multivariate Multiple Sensor System | BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D | 2171 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
| 18235101 | BED SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING USER BIOMETRICS DURING SLEEP BASED ON LOAD-CELL SIGNALS | SAHAND, SANA | 3796 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 18215645 | BED HAVING FEATURES FOR AUTOMATIC SENSING OF ILLNESS STATES SUCH AS POST-ACUTE SEQUALAE OF COVID-19 (PASC OR LONG COVID) | RUIZ, JOSHUA DAMIAN | 3684 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
| 18105468 | BED HAVING ROLLOVER IDENTIFYING FEATURE | THROOP, MYLES A | 3679 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2023 |
| 18104634 | BED WITH FEATURES FOR DETERMINING RISK OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE | HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA | 3684 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Feb 01, 2023 |
| 18084944 | BED HAVING FEATURES TO PASSIVELY MONITOR BLOOD PRESSURE | BERHANU, ETSUB D | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Dec 20, 2022 |
| 17968983 | MATTRESS WITH ATTACHABLE CORES | MCCLURE, MORGAN J | 3673 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2022 |
| 17959698 | Systems and Methods for Utilizing Gravity to Determine Subject-Specific Information | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2022 |
| 17902417 | SLEEP SYSTEM WITH FEATURES FOR PERSONALIZED DAYTIME ALERTNESS QUANTIFICATION | SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 3792 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Sep 02, 2022 |
| 17859189 | BED HAVING FEATURES FOR SENSING SLEEPER PRESSURE AND GENERATING ESTIMATES OF BRAIN ACTIVITY FOR USE IN DISEASE | HOLMES, REX R | 3796 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2022 |
| 17704537 | SLEEP SYSTEM WITH FEATURES FOR PERSONALIZED SLEEP RECOMMENDATIONS | TRAN, THIEN JASON | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Mar 25, 2022 |
| 17672492 | BED HAVING FEATURES FOR SENSING SLEEPER PRESSURE AND GENERATING ESTIMATES OF BRAIN ACTIVITY | SHAH, JAY B | 3791 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Feb 15, 2022 |
| 17541921 | BED HAVING FEATURES FOR AUTOMATIC SENSING OF ILLNESS STATES | HOLMES, REX R | 3796 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Dec 03, 2021 |
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