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
Somnus Technologies Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being examined by a single distinct examiner in a single distinct art unit. The company's active patent prosecution is currently limited to this case. This indicates a highly concentrated effort in the medical device and mechanical engineering space.
Ophelia Althea Hawthorne is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding the 1 pending office action. With a total of a single pending action, this examiner manages the company's active workload. This concentration in a single art unit means that the company's current legal efforts are focused on the standards of a single specialized division. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of Ophelia Althea Hawthorne, as this individual manages the 1 pending office action.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | 1 | 72.0% | +30.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19405219 | WEARABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19405219 | WEARABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | 3786 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSomnus Technologies Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ophelia Althea Hawthorne has the most, with 1 of Somnus Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
