Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Institut Straumann AG currently manages a portfolio with 7 pending office actions, all situated within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 7 distinct examiners, indicating that every pending matter is being handled by a different individual. This high level of examiner diversity is mirrored by the involvement of 4 distinct art units, suggesting a broad technical reach within its specialized field.
The busiest examiner for Institut Straumann AG is FARAJ, LINA AHMAD, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that there are 7 pending office actions and 7 distinct examiners, no single examiner holds a majority of the workload. FARAJ, LINA AHMAD is one of many officials currently reviewing the company's applications, with 1 busiest examiner pending action recorded in the data.
The distribution of 7 pending office actions across 4 distinct art units highlights the complexity of Institut Straumann AG's medical device innovations. With 7 distinct examiners, the company must navigate a wide range of individual examiner preferences and interpretations. This data indicates a highly decentralized prosecution strategy where the 7 pending office actions are subject to diverse technical and procedural oversight within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| §102 only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FARAJ, LINA AHMAD | 1 | 41.1% | +69.1% |
| LETT, THOMAS J | 1 | 84.0% | -34.9% |
| LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 1 | 78.4% | +9.4% |
| NELSON, CHRISTINE L | 1 | 62.7% | +33.5% |
| SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D | 1 | 72.3% | +27.4% |
| RUMMEL, JULIA L | 1 | 34.8% | +52.4% |
| RUIZ MARTIN, LUIS MIGUEL | 1 | 44.1% | +54.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19034534 | Automatic generation of a crown shape for a dentition | LETT, THOMAS J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18708762 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE POSITION OF A DENTAL IMPLANT | NELSON, CHRISTINE L | 5d |
| 19114063 | DENTAL IMPLANT | FARAJ, LINA AHMAD | — |
| 17924295 | MOUNTING DEVICE FOR AUTOMATED DENTAL PROSTHESES PROCESSING | RUMMEL, JULIA L | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17426832 | ABUTMENT ARRANGEMENT AND DENTAL RESTORATION KIT | RUIZ MARTIN, LUIS MIGUEL | 9d overdue |
| 18708762 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE POSITION OF A DENTAL IMPLANT | NELSON, CHRISTINE L | 5d |
| 18389830 | CONSTRUCTING TEXTURED 3D MODELS OF DENTAL STRUCTURES | SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D | 19d |
| 19114063 | DENTAL IMPLANT | FARAJ, LINA AHMAD | — |
| 17924295 | MOUNTING DEVICE FOR AUTOMATED DENTAL PROSTHESES PROCESSING | RUMMEL, JULIA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 3 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| 2613 | 1 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19114063 | DENTAL IMPLANT | FARAJ, LINA AHMAD | 3772 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19034534 | Automatic generation of a crown shape for a dentition | LETT, THOMAS J | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 18877150 | POSTERIOR BITE INTERFERENCE ELEMENTS | LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 3700 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18708762 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE POSITION OF A DENTAL IMPLANT | NELSON, CHRISTINE L | 3772 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18389830 | CONSTRUCTING TEXTURED 3D MODELS OF DENTAL STRUCTURES | SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D | 2613 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 17924295 | MOUNTING DEVICE FOR AUTOMATED DENTAL PROSTHESES PROCESSING | RUMMEL, JULIA L | 1784 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2022 |
| 17426832 | ABUTMENT ARRANGEMENT AND DENTAL RESTORATION KIT | RUIZ MARTIN, LUIS MIGUEL | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Jul 29, 2021 |
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