Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
24 pending office actions • 13 art units • 23 examiners • 0 of 24 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ivoclar Vivadent AG currently manages 23 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These active cases are handled by 23 distinct examiners across 12 distinct art units. This exact match between the number of pending actions and the number of examiners indicates that every single application is being reviewed by a different person.
NELSON, MATTHEW M is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Because there are 23 pending office actions and 23 distinct examiners, no individual examiner holds more than one case. This total lack of examiner overlap requires a prosecution strategy tailored to 23 different individual perspectives.
The 12 distinct art units involved show that Ivoclar Vivadent AG has a broad reach within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector, touching many different specialized groups. With 23 pending office actions spread so thinly across examiners and art units, practitioners cannot rely on building a rapport with a single primary examiner for this portfolio.
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 | 5 (21%) |
| §103 only | 7 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 12 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AZUBUOGU, CHIEMERIE CHIBUZOR | 2 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| NELSON, MATTHEW M | 1 | 57.9% | +23.9% |
| BERNARD, ADRIEN J | 1 | 81.5% | +17.5% |
| UTT, ETHAN A | 1 | 47.8% | +41.2% |
| GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR | 1 | 60.5% | +27.8% |
| REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | 1 | 65.9% | +23.3% |
| TRAIL, ALLYSON NEEL | 1 | 88.4% | +7.1% |
| ROBERTS, ANDREW DILLON | 1 | — | — |
| MILLER, CAMERON KENNETH | 1 | 81.5% | +0.2% |
| WIESE, NOAH S | 1 | 83.3% | -1.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18756317 | DISK MANAGER FOR DENTAL BLANKS | TRAIL, ALLYSON NEEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18325818 | CIRCUIT HOUSING FOR WEARABLE INTRAORAL APPLICATION | WALKER, OLIVIA | 29d |
| 19255649 | FASTENING SYSTEM FOR A DENTAL OBJECT | NELSON, MATTHEW M | — |
| 19253288 | Lip And Cheek Expander | AZUBUOGU, CHIEMERIE CHIBUZOR | — |
| 19231821 | METHOD OF PRODUCING A DENTAL OBJECT | BERNARD, ADRIEN J | — |
| 19068678 | PRE-SINTERED MULTI-LAYERED DENTAL MILL BLANK, PROCESS FOR PREPARING THE SAME, AND USES THEREOF, AND A SINTERING PROCESS | UTT, ETHAN A | — |
| 18675396 | DYNAMIC EXPOSURE STRATEGY | ROBERTS, ANDREW DILLON | — |
| 18605719 | Oxide Ceramic With Pigment | MILLER, CAMERON KENNETH | — |
| 18605732 | Dental Material With Pigment | WIESE, NOAH S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18777924 | ORAL SENSOR SYSTEM | GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR | 1d overdue |
| 19255649 | FASTENING SYSTEM FOR A DENTAL OBJECT | NELSON, MATTHEW M | — |
| 19231821 | METHOD OF PRODUCING A DENTAL OBJECT | BERNARD, ADRIEN J | — |
| 19068678 | PRE-SINTERED MULTI-LAYERED DENTAL MILL BLANK, PROCESS FOR PREPARING THE SAME, AND USES THEREOF, AND A SINTERING PROCESS | UTT, ETHAN A | — |
| 18765510 | RECEPTACLE FOR A DENTAL BLANK | REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 3 |
| 3796 | 2 |
| 3723 | 2 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| 2876 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19255649 | FASTENING SYSTEM FOR A DENTAL OBJECT | NELSON, MATTHEW M | 3772 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19253288 | Lip And Cheek Expander | AZUBUOGU, CHIEMERIE CHIBUZOR | 3772 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19231821 | METHOD OF PRODUCING A DENTAL OBJECT | BERNARD, ADRIEN J | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19068678 | PRE-SINTERED MULTI-LAYERED DENTAL MILL BLANK, PROCESS FOR PREPARING THE SAME, AND USES THEREOF, AND A SINTERING PROCESS | UTT, ETHAN A | — | §101§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 18777924 | ORAL SENSOR SYSTEM | GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18765510 | RECEPTACLE FOR A DENTAL BLANK | REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | 3735 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18756317 | DISK MANAGER FOR DENTAL BLANKS | TRAIL, ALLYSON NEEL | 2876 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18675396 | DYNAMIC EXPOSURE STRATEGY | ROBERTS, ANDREW DILLON | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18605719 | Oxide Ceramic With Pigment | MILLER, CAMERON KENNETH | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18605732 | Dental Material With Pigment | WIESE, NOAH S | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18436310 | BRISTLE DISK | HEGEMIER, JON MICHAEL | 3723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18520305 | METHOD OF PRODUCING A DENTAL RESTORATION | THROWER, LARRY W | 1754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 18502685 | Method Of Producing A Multicolor Glass-Ceramic Blank For Dental Purposes, Multicolor Glass-Ceramic Blank, And Use Thereof | AMEEN, MOHAMMAD M | 1742 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18490396 | STORAGE STABLE SELF-ADHESIVE COMPOSITE CEMENTS WITH GOOD TRANSPARENCY AND GOOD RADIOPACITY | ROSWELL, JESSICA MARIE | 1767 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18464209 | METHOD OF PRODUCING A DENTAL RESTORATION | BEHA, CAROLINE | 1748 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2023 |
| 18355363 | METHOD FOR ARRANGING SUPPORT STRUCTURES | GOLDBERG, IVAN R | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18325818 | CIRCUIT HOUSING FOR WEARABLE INTRAORAL APPLICATION | WALKER, OLIVIA | 3796 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18314045 | MACHINING METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A DENTAL OBJECT | HANN, JAY B | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
| 18043086 | DENTAL PROPHY PASTE | PETRITSCH, AMANDA MICHELLE | 1612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2023 |
| 18147689 | SELF-ADHESIVE DENTAL COMPOSITE CEMENT WITH GOOD TRANSPARENCY BASED ON ACID-TREATED FILLERS | ISNOR, ALEXANDRA NICOLE | 1611 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2022 |
| 17933738 | Lip/Cheek Retainer And System | AZUBUOGU, CHIEMERIE CHIBUZOR | 3700 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2022 |
| 17931999 | HOLDING DEVICE FOR A BLANK | FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | 3723 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2022 |
| 17819812 | PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF A DENTAL RESTORATION | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1759 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2022 |
| 17517205 | System Having A Laser And An Adhesive For The Securing Of A Dental Restoration Part And Method For Securing A Restoration Part, In Particular A Dental Restoration Part | PATEL, YOGESH P | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Nov 02, 2021 |
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