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
The Snore Reliever Company LLC maintains a focused patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Currently, the company has 1 pending office action. This single action is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly concentrated prosecution effort. This singular focus suggests that the company is currently pursuing a very specific set of claims or a single core technology.
MICHAEL MILO is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. He is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently active. This alignment between the total pending office actions and the busiest examiner workload suggests that the company's current interactions with the patent office are localized to a single point of contact. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's immediate prosecution success depends entirely on the feedback from these specific entities.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILO, MICHAEL | 1 | 50.8% | +52.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18972196 | APPARATUS FOR REDUCING SNORING | MILO, MICHAEL | 19d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18972196 | APPARATUS FOR REDUCING SNORING | MILO, MICHAEL | 19d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18972196 | APPARATUS FOR REDUCING SNORING | MILO, MICHAEL | 3786 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
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