Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Somnial Inc. is currently navigating 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The action is being reviewed by BERTRAM, ERIC D, who is the only distinct examiner active for the company. This prosecution is confined to 1 distinct art unit, representing a focused patent application process. This concentration means that the company's current success at the USPTO relies on the specific interpretation and feedback of a single official.
The busiest examiner, BERTRAM, ERIC D, is responsible for 1 pending office action, which represents the full extent of the company's current active docket. This one-to-one relationship between the examiner and the pending action count simplifies the management of the portfolio but increases the impact of that single examiner's decisions. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences and historical trends of this individual examiner within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
Because there is only 1 distinct art unit, the technology is likely specialized within the mechanical engineering domain. The absence of other pending actions or distinct examiners means there are no alternative prosecution paths currently active to offset any challenges encountered with this single application. This focused profile requires a precise and well-supported response to the 1 pending office action currently on record.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERTRAM, ERIC D | 1 | 81.3% | +12.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18871276 | TREATMENT OF TISSUE USING ELECTRICAL STIMULATION | BERTRAM, ERIC D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18871276 | TREATMENT OF TISSUE USING ELECTRICAL STIMULATION | BERTRAM, ERIC D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18871276 | TREATMENT OF TISSUE USING ELECTRICAL STIMULATION | BERTRAM, ERIC D | 3796 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSomnial Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Eric D Bertram has the most, with 1 of Somnial Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
