Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
16 pending office actions • 13 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 36 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dentsply Sirona Inc. has 14 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are distributed among 14 examiners and 11 art units, indicating broad examiner dispersion across several technical groupings.
MOTSINGER, SEAN T is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The reported concentration does not support a portfolio-wide examiner strategy, so counsel should prioritize application-specific analysis and art-unit context when preparing responses.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 3 (19%) |
| §103 only | 7 (44%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (31%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOTSINGER, SEAN T | 1 | 78.6% | +11.8% |
| BLANCHETTE, JOSHUA B | 1 | 48.3% | +31.5% |
| LI, JAI WEI TOMMY | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| MALEVIC, DJURA | 1 | 78.1% | +10.1% |
| GRACE, KELSEY C | 1 | 80.4% | +11.9% |
| RICKS, DONNA J | 1 | 76.7% | +10.3% |
| ALFONSO, DENISE G | 1 | 76.5% | +13.6% |
| WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | 1 | 80.1% | -4.6% |
| PATEL, YOGESH P | 1 | 57.9% | +58.6% |
| NGUYEN, ANH TUAN V | 1 | 72.1% | +19.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18942955 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING THE POSITION OF A DENTAL FILE DURING ENDODONTIC TREATMENT | LI, JAI WEI TOMMY | — |
| 18922045 | MULTIPLE VISCOSITY GUTTA-PERCHA COATED ENDODONTIC INSTRUMENTS | GRACE, KELSEY C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18869039 | DENTAL USER INTERFACES | BLANCHETTE, JOSHUA B | — |
| 18736677 | DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION | ALFONSO, DENISE G | — |
| 18440102 | ESTHETIC, ROBUST, HYBRID AND BIOMIMETIC DENTAL COMPOSITION | WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | — |
| 18681558 | DENTAL PROCEDURES | PATEL, YOGESH P | — |
| 18205709 | INTELLIGENT RESTORATION PROPOSAL | BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM | — |
| 18026933 | MANIFOLD COMPATIBLE ELECTROLYTIC CELL (EO CELL) WITH COPLANAR FLUIDIC AND ELECTRICAL CONNECTION SCHEME | MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM | — |
| 17980582 | CONTROLLED LOCAL MODIFICATION OF VOLUMETRIC PHYSICAL PROPERTIES | TSUI, YUNG-SHENG M | — |
| 17425562 | CUSTOMIZED COLORATION OF DENTAL RESTORATIONS | MAI, HAO D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18846304 | COMPUTERIZED DENTAL VISUALIZATION | MOTSINGER, SEAN T | — |
| 18869039 | DENTAL USER INTERFACES | BLANCHETTE, JOSHUA B | — |
| 18928638 | X-RAY DEVICE CALIBRATION | MALEVIC, DJURA | — |
| 18922045 | MULTIPLE VISCOSITY GUTTA-PERCHA COATED ENDODONTIC INSTRUMENTS | GRACE, KELSEY C | — |
| 18791676 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS FOR CREATING DIGITAL DENTAL PROSTHESIS MODELS | RICKS, DONNA J | — |
| 18736677 | DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION | ALFONSO, DENISE G | — |
| 18681558 | DENTAL PROCEDURES | PATEL, YOGESH P | — |
| 18538000 | REDUCING BANDWIDTH BY PARTIAL RECONSTRUCTION OF OVERLAPPING DENTAL DEPTH IMAGES | NGUYEN, ANH TUAN V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 4 |
| 3684 | 1 |
| 2613 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 2618 | 1 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| 2619 | 1 |
| 1687 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18846304 | COMPUTERIZED DENTAL VISUALIZATION | MOTSINGER, SEAN T | 3772 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
| 18869039 | DENTAL USER INTERFACES | BLANCHETTE, JOSHUA B | 3684 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18942955 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING THE POSITION OF A DENTAL FILE DURING ENDODONTIC TREATMENT | LI, JAI WEI TOMMY | 2613 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18928638 | X-RAY DEVICE CALIBRATION | MALEVIC, DJURA | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18922045 | MULTIPLE VISCOSITY GUTTA-PERCHA COATED ENDODONTIC INSTRUMENTS | GRACE, KELSEY C | 1742 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18791676 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS FOR CREATING DIGITAL DENTAL PROSTHESIS MODELS | RICKS, DONNA J | 2618 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18736677 | DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION | ALFONSO, DENISE G | 2662 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18440102 | ESTHETIC, ROBUST, HYBRID AND BIOMIMETIC DENTAL COMPOSITION | WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | 1766 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18681558 | DENTAL PROCEDURES | PATEL, YOGESH P | 3772 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 18538000 | REDUCING BANDWIDTH BY PARTIAL RECONSTRUCTION OF OVERLAPPING DENTAL DEPTH IMAGES | NGUYEN, ANH TUAN V | 2619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18205709 | INTELLIGENT RESTORATION PROPOSAL | BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM | 1687 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2023 |
| 18026933 | MANIFOLD COMPATIBLE ELECTROLYTIC CELL (EO CELL) WITH COPLANAR FLUIDIC AND ELECTRICAL CONNECTION SCHEME | MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM | 1794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2023 |
| 17980582 | CONTROLLED LOCAL MODIFICATION OF VOLUMETRIC PHYSICAL PROPERTIES | TSUI, YUNG-SHENG M | 1684 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2022 |
| 17549481 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A CERAMIC MULTILAYER BLANK | HEMINGWAY, TIMOTHY G | 1754 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2021 |
| 17425562 | CUSTOMIZED COLORATION OF DENTAL RESTORATIONS | MAI, HAO D | 3772 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2021 |
| 17375537 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A BLANK AND DENTAL RESTORATION | NELSON, MATTHEW M | 3772 | §112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jul 14, 2021 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free TrialDentsply Sirona Inc. has 16 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 13 art units and 16 examiners.
Sean T Motsinger has the most, with 1 of Dentsply Sirona Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
