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
Alexander Dental Group currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working in 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio into a single action suggests a highly focused or early-stage prosecution effort within this specific technical field. Having only 1 distinct art unit involved indicates that the subject matter is specialized within the broader mechanical engineering landscape.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. Because of this, the examiner handles the company's current prosecution workload. Practitioners should note that with only 1 distinct examiner involved, the prosecution experience is currently centralized. This volume represents the total of active disputes or reviews for the company at this time. The 1 distinct art unit serves as the sole venue for these proceedings.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 1 | 78.4% | +9.4% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18921981 | DENTAL TOOL | LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
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