Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sonex Health Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is under the review of 1 distinct examiner, RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH, who is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The prosecution is focused within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a specific mechanical or medical application. This concentration allows for a focused legal approach but lacks the risk mitigation provided by a more diverse examiner pool.
With only 1 pending office action, the company's current USPTO activity is highly concentrated. The 1 distinct examiner, RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH, is the sole official responsible for the current Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings. This lack of diversity in 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner means that the company's success is currently tied to a single point of contact. Practitioners must focus their resources on this single interaction to resolve the 1 pending office action, as there are no other active matters to provide alternative prosecution paths.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 1 | 68.5% | +15.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18367765 | SOFT TISSUE CUTTING DEVICE WITH VISUALIZATION AND/OR PRESSURE SENSING | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 84d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18367765 | SOFT TISSUE CUTTING DEVICE WITH VISUALIZATION AND/OR PRESSURE SENSING | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 3771 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 84d | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
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