Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
16 pending office actions • 10 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 37 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dentsply Sirona Inc. manages 16 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There are 16 distinct examiners involved in these cases, distributed across 10 distinct art units. MOTSINGER, SEAN T is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The presence of 16 distinct examiners for 16 pending office actions shows that prosecution is handled by a diverse group of individuals.
The 10 distinct art units indicate that the 16 pending office actions cover a variety of technical sub-fields within medical and mechanical engineering. MOTSINGER, SEAN T is one of the 16 examiners each managing 1 pending action. This distribution suggests that no single individual has a dominant influence over the company's current pending portfolio. The 10 distinct art units provide some technical grouping, but the 16 distinct examiners ensure that each case is reviewed independently. Practitioners should expect a range of examiner perspectives, as every one of the 16 pending office actions is assigned to a different distinct examiner. This decentralized approach means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to 16 different individuals across 10 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 1 (6%) |
| §103 only | 8 (50%) |
| §112 only | 2 (12%) |
| 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 | 78.5% | +11.9% |
| LI, JAI WEI TOMMY | 1 | — | — |
| TO, HOLLY T | 1 | 47.9% | +32.9% |
| JIA, XIN | 1 | 84.6% | +13.0% |
| ALFONSO, DENISE G | 1 | 76.2% | +14.5% |
| MORAN, EDWARD JOHN | 1 | 41.8% | +61.1% |
| WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | 1 | 80.0% | -4.5% |
| PATEL, YOGESH P | 1 | 57.9% | +58.6% |
| NGUYEN, ANH TUAN V | 1 | 72.3% | +19.4% |
| SATCHER, DION JOHN | 1 | 84.6% | +17.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18493135 | CONTACTLESS DETECTION OF DEFECTIVE TOOTH MATERIAL | SATCHER, DION JOHN | 60d overdue |
| 18785165 | METAL ARTIFACT CORRECTION | JIA, XIN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18736677 | DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION | ALFONSO, DENISE G | — |
| 18440102 | ESTHETIC, ROBUST, HYBRID AND BIOMIMETIC DENTAL COMPOSITION | WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | — |
| 18681558 | DENTAL PROCEDURES | PATEL, YOGESH P | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18493135 | CONTACTLESS DETECTION OF DEFECTIVE TOOTH MATERIAL | SATCHER, DION JOHN | 60d overdue |
| 18845909 | DENTAL TREATMENT SYSTEM FOR LOCATING THE APEX OF A TOOTH | TO, HOLLY T | 35d |
| 18846304 | COMPUTERIZED DENTAL VISUALIZATION | MOTSINGER, SEAN T | — |
| 18785165 | METAL ARTIFACT CORRECTION | JIA, XIN | — |
| 18736677 | DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION | ALFONSO, DENISE G | — |
| 18731486 | RECIPROCAL MOTOR MOVEMENT FOR ENDODONTIC FILES | MORAN, EDWARD JOHN | — |
| 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 | 5 |
| 2613 | 1 |
| 2663 | 1 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| 2619 | 1 |
| 2676 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| 1684 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| 1754 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 18845909 | DENTAL TREATMENT SYSTEM FOR LOCATING THE APEX OF A TOOTH | TO, HOLLY T | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18785165 | METAL ARTIFACT CORRECTION | JIA, XIN | 2663 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18736677 | DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION | ALFONSO, DENISE G | 2662 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18731486 | RECIPROCAL MOTOR MOVEMENT FOR ENDODONTIC FILES | MORAN, EDWARD JOHN | 3772 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18440102 | ESTHETIC, ROBUST, HYBRID AND BIOMIMETIC DENTAL COMPOSITION | WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18681558 | DENTAL PROCEDURES | PATEL, YOGESH P | — | §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 |
| 18493135 | CONTACTLESS DETECTION OF DEFECTIVE TOOTH MATERIAL | SATCHER, DION JOHN | 2676 | §103 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 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 |
| 17790182 | IMPLANT DRIVER WITH SIMULTANEOUS CONTROL OF DEPTH AND ROTATION OF THE IMPLANT ACCORDING TO A DIGITAL PLANNING | EIDE, HEIDI MARIE | 3700 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 30, 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 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jul 14, 2021 |
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