Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hultgren Dental Technologies LLC has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, providing a different reviewer for each application. Both actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a high level of concentration in the technical classification of the company's current patent applications.
LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 of the pending office actions. The other action is managed by the second of the 2 distinct examiners. With 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split evenly, and no single examiner has a majority influence over the company's current filings.
The focus on 1 distinct art unit suggests that the 2 pending office actions involve closely related medical device technologies. Because there are 2 distinct examiners, the company receives two different perspectives within the same technical division. Practitioners should observe the 1 pending office action under LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D to see how his approach compares to the other examiner within this 1 distinct art unit.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
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% |
| ROSEN, ERIC J | 1 | 41.3% | +22.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18400763 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING A DENTAL RESTORATION | ROSEN, ERIC J | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18400763 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING A DENTAL RESTORATION | ROSEN, ERIC J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19182006 | MOTION ADJUSTMENT PREDICTION SYSTEM | LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 3772 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 18400763 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING A DENTAL RESTORATION | ROSEN, ERIC J | 3772 | §101§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
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