Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dental Imaging Technologies Corporation currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are handled by distinct examiners, all of whom are located within 1 distinct art unit. COOK, JONATHON is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action.
The concentration of 4 pending office actions within the art unit indicates a highly focused technical review process. Although multiple examiners are involved, the 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's filings are being evaluated under a consistent set of standards. This structure allows for a more predictable prosecution environment compared to portfolios spread across different art units.
Practitioners should be prepared to manage different examiner styles while maintaining a unified technical argument within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector. The fact that the busiest examiner, COOK, JONATHON, has only a portion of the workload shows that the tasks are distributed. This focused approach ensures that the pending office actions are reviewed by a specialized group of examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COOK, JONATHON | 1 | 81.6% | +17.0% |
| XING, CHRISTINA ILONA | 1 | 82.9% | +17.8% |
| HANSEN, JONATHAN M | 1 | 79.4% | +11.4% |
| MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | 1 | 61.5% | +28.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18704246 | INTRAORAL OCT APPARATUS | COOK, JONATHON | — |
| 18573848 | INTRAORAL SCANNER USING COMMON-PATH OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY | XING, CHRISTINA ILONA | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18555155 | INTRAORAL OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER WITH OPTICAL FIBER ADAPTER | MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | 73d overdue |
| 18503576 | INTRAORAL OCT WITH COLOR TEXTURE | HANSEN, JONATHAN M | 71d overdue |
| 18704246 | INTRAORAL OCT APPARATUS | COOK, JONATHON | — |
| 18573848 | INTRAORAL SCANNER USING COMMON-PATH OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY | XING, CHRISTINA ILONA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18704246 | INTRAORAL OCT APPARATUS | COOK, JONATHON | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18573848 | INTRAORAL SCANNER USING COMMON-PATH OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY | XING, CHRISTINA ILONA | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18503576 | INTRAORAL OCT WITH COLOR TEXTURE | HANSEN, JONATHAN M | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d overdue | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 18555155 | INTRAORAL OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER WITH OPTICAL FIBER ADAPTER | MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
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