Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
18 pending office actions • 10 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
3Shape A/S currently has 18 pending office actions within its company patent portfolio in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 18 distinct examiners, meaning that each official is handling exactly one matter for the company. The prosecution is spread across 10 distinct art units, reflecting a significant degree of technical diversity within the company's networking-related filings.
LEE, MICHAEL is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This single action represents a portion of the total 18 pending office actions currently active. Because the workload is perfectly balanced among the 18 distinct examiners, no single examiner's decisions will have a disproportionate impact on the overall portfolio's success.
For practitioners, the presence of 10 distinct art units suggests that the 18 pending office actions cover a broad technical spectrum. The lack of examiner overlap means that 18 different examination styles must be managed simultaneously. Successfully navigating this portfolio requires a decentralized strategy that addresses the unique requirements of each of the 18 distinct examiners across their 10 respective art units, ensuring that each of the 18 pending office actions is handled with specific attention to its assigned official.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 3 (17%) |
| §103 only | 4 (22%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| §112 only | 2 (11%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, MICHAEL | 1 | 79.6% | +10.0% |
| CHOW, JEFFREY J | 1 | 77.2% | +15.7% |
| SHAH, UTPAL D | 1 | 87.9% | +11.3% |
| HUYNH, VAN D | 1 | 87.0% | +13.4% |
| IQBAL, KHAWAR | 1 | 73.1% | +29.2% |
| PENA-SANTANA, TANIA M | 1 | 71.9% | -4.2% |
| TRAN, TRANG U | 1 | 78.6% | +15.8% |
| JOHNSON, WILLIAM DONALD | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| KASENGE, CHARLES R | 1 | 84.0% | +13.8% |
| LE, SARAH | 1 | 67.5% | +31.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19001048 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING PERIODONTAL POCKET DEPTH | SHAH, UTPAL D | — |
| 18989112 | DERIVING TOOTH CONDITION INFORMATION FOR POPULATING DIGITAL DENTAL CHARTS | HUYNH, VAN D | — |
| 18952334 | DESIGNING AN INSERTABLE DENTAL RESTORATION | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18854649 | INTRAORAL SCANNING DEVICE WITH EXTENDED FIELD OF VIEW | JONES, HEATHER RAE | 3d overdue |
| 19249737 | AN INTRAORAL SCANNING DEVICE WITH IMPROVED COOLING | LEE, MICHAEL | — |
| 19112087 | DIGITAL COMMUNICATION OF DENTAL ORAL HEALTH | CHOW, JEFFREY J | — |
| 18871926 | SUPPORT UNIT FOR INTRAORAL SCAN DEVICE | JOHNSON, WILLIAM DONALD | — |
| 18866422 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DESIGNING A DENTAL APPLIANCE | LE, SARAH | — |
| 18863234 | METHOD FOR MONITORING CHANGES IN BITE | NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | — |
| 18847941 | INTRA ORAL SCANNER AND COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR UPDATING A DIGITAL 3D SCAN | CODRINGTON, SHANE WRENSFORD | — |
| 18818868 | INTRAORAL SCANNER SYSTEM WITH A CORRECTION FEEDBACK SIGNAL | SZE, BRIANA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18872316 | AN INTRAORAL SCANNER INCLUDING AN IMPROVED POWER MANAGEMENT UNIT | TRAN, TRANG U | 3d overdue |
| 19249737 | AN INTRAORAL SCANNING DEVICE WITH IMPROVED COOLING | LEE, MICHAEL | — |
| 19112087 | DIGITAL COMMUNICATION OF DENTAL ORAL HEALTH | CHOW, JEFFREY J | — |
| 19001048 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING PERIODONTAL POCKET DEPTH | SHAH, UTPAL D | — |
| 18989112 | DERIVING TOOTH CONDITION INFORMATION FOR POPULATING DIGITAL DENTAL CHARTS | HUYNH, VAN D | — |
| 18875411 | AN INTRAORAL SCANNING DEVICE CONFIGURED TO AUTHENTICATE MODE REQUEST | IQBAL, KHAWAR | — |
| 18952334 | DESIGNING AN INSERTABLE DENTAL RESTORATION | KASENGE, CHARLES R | — |
| 18866422 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DESIGNING A DENTAL APPLIANCE | LE, SARAH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2422 | 2 |
| 3772 | 2 |
| 2643 | 1 |
| 2443 | 1 |
| 3631 | 1 |
| 2481 | 1 |
| 2668 | 1 |
| 2614 | 1 |
| 2178 | 1 |
| 3795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19249737 | AN INTRAORAL SCANNING DEVICE WITH IMPROVED COOLING | LEE, MICHAEL | 2422 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19112087 | DIGITAL COMMUNICATION OF DENTAL ORAL HEALTH | CHOW, JEFFREY J | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 19001048 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING PERIODONTAL POCKET DEPTH | SHAH, UTPAL D | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 18989112 | DERIVING TOOTH CONDITION INFORMATION FOR POPULATING DIGITAL DENTAL CHARTS | HUYNH, VAN D | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18875411 | AN INTRAORAL SCANNING DEVICE CONFIGURED TO AUTHENTICATE MODE REQUEST | IQBAL, KHAWAR | 2643 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18875320 | INTRAORAL SCANNING DEVICE WITH COMMUNICATION PROTECTION AND RELATED METHOD | PENA-SANTANA, TANIA M | 2443 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18872316 | AN INTRAORAL SCANNER INCLUDING AN IMPROVED POWER MANAGEMENT UNIT | TRAN, TRANG U | 2422 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18871926 | SUPPORT UNIT FOR INTRAORAL SCAN DEVICE | JOHNSON, WILLIAM DONALD | 3631 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18952334 | DESIGNING AN INSERTABLE DENTAL RESTORATION | KASENGE, CHARLES R | — | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18866422 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DESIGNING A DENTAL APPLIANCE | LE, SARAH | 3772 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18863234 | METHOD FOR MONITORING CHANGES IN BITE | NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18854649 | INTRAORAL SCANNING DEVICE WITH EXTENDED FIELD OF VIEW | JONES, HEATHER RAE | 2481 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18847941 | INTRA ORAL SCANNER AND COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR UPDATING A DIGITAL 3D SCAN | CODRINGTON, SHANE WRENSFORD | 2668 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 18818868 | INTRAORAL SCANNER SYSTEM WITH A CORRECTION FEEDBACK SIGNAL | SZE, BRIANA | 2614 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18794740 | DUAL-RESOLUTION 3D SCANNER AND METHOD OF USING | DULANEY, KATHLEEN YUAN | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 17434064 | SCANNER DEVICE WITH REPLACEABLE SCANNING-TIPS | BURKE, TIONNA M | 2178 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Aug 26, 2021 |
| 16669843 | TIP FOR AN OPTICAL SCANNER | CHOU, WILLIAM B | 3795 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2019 |
| 16585831 | Common Placement Support for Artificial Teeth | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 3772 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Sep 27, 2019 |
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