Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dental Monitoring is navigating 10 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's prosecution strategy involves 9 distinct examiners, showing that nearly every pending action is handled by a different individual. These matters are categorized into 5 distinct art units, suggesting a focused but varied technical scope within the broader Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. The 10 pending office actions are spread across these 5 distinct art units, which indicates a moderate level of specialization.
EIDE, HEIDI MARIE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. This means that while 9 distinct examiners are involved, EIDE, HEIDI MARIE handles 2 of the matters. The presence of 5 art units suggests that the company's innovations are concentrated in specific technical niches. For a practitioner, the distribution of 10 actions among 9 examiners implies that prosecution outcomes will depend on a wide variety of individual examiner preferences. Managing this portfolio requires coordinating with many different individuals to ensure consistency.
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 | 2 (20%) |
| §103 only | 5 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (30%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EIDE, HEIDI MARIE | 2 | 50.6% | +32.5% |
| COMSTOCK, DAVID C | 1 | 86.6% | -8.3% |
| MAUPIN, HUGH H | 1 | 87.5% | +6.3% |
| MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 1 | 82.9% | +24.0% |
| LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 1 | 78.4% | +9.5% |
| MARINELLI, PATRICK | 1 | 64.0% | +37.9% |
| LITTLE, ANNA VICTORIA | 1 | 76.9% | +22.8% |
| DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN | 1 | 1.7% | +4.7% |
| MAI, HAO D | 1 | 49.2% | +39.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18996596 | SPACER FOR ACQUIRING A VIEW OF THE MOUTH OF A USER COMPRISING ELASTICALLY DEFORMABLE WINGS | COMSTOCK, DAVID C | — |
| 18880092 | EXTRA-ORAL IMAGE TAKING KIT | MAUPIN, HUGH H | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18277119 | ACQUISITION KIT | LITTLE, ANNA VICTORIA | 2d overdue |
| 18025024 | METHOD FOR SELECTING A DENTAL PRODUCT | DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN | 13d |
| 17016653 | METHOD FOR MONITORING THE POSITION OF TEETH | EIDE, HEIDI MARIE | 34d |
| 18880098 | EXTRA-ORAL IMAGE TAKING DEVICE | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
| 18271338 | DENTAL RETRACTOR FOR AUTONOMOUS IMAGING, WITH MOUTH CLOSED OR OPEN | EIDE, HEIDI MARIE | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17974986 | MONITORING OF DENTITION | MAI, HAO D | 44d overdue |
| 18277119 | ACQUISITION KIT | LITTLE, ANNA VICTORIA | 2d overdue |
| 17016653 | METHOD FOR MONITORING THE POSITION OF TEETH | EIDE, HEIDI MARIE | 34d |
| 18880098 | EXTRA-ORAL IMAGE TAKING DEVICE | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
| 18277121 | ACQUISITION KIT | MARINELLI, PATRICK | — |
| 18271338 | DENTAL RETRACTOR FOR AUTONOMOUS IMAGING, WITH MOUTH CLOSED OR OPEN | EIDE, HEIDI MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 4 |
| 3773 | 3 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| 2699 | 1 |
| 3689 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18996596 | SPACER FOR ACQUIRING A VIEW OF THE MOUTH OF A USER COMPRISING ELASTICALLY DEFORMABLE WINGS | COMSTOCK, DAVID C | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18880092 | EXTRA-ORAL IMAGE TAKING KIT | MAUPIN, HUGH H | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18880098 | EXTRA-ORAL IMAGE TAKING DEVICE | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 3773 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18719146 | SPACER FOR DENTAL ACQUISITION | LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 3772 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
| 18277121 | ACQUISITION KIT | MARINELLI, PATRICK | 2699 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
| 18277119 | ACQUISITION KIT | LITTLE, ANNA VICTORIA | 3773 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
| 18271338 | DENTAL RETRACTOR FOR AUTONOMOUS IMAGING, WITH MOUTH CLOSED OR OPEN | EIDE, HEIDI MARIE | 3772 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2023 |
| 18025024 | METHOD FOR SELECTING A DENTAL PRODUCT | DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN | 3689 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
| 17974986 | MONITORING OF DENTITION | MAI, HAO D | 3772 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
| 17016653 | METHOD FOR MONITORING THE POSITION OF TEETH | EIDE, HEIDI MARIE | 3772 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Sep 10, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialDental Monitoring has 10 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 9 examiners.
Heidi Marie Eide has the most, with 2 of Dental Monitoring's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
