Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
18 pending office actions • 13 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics Inc. has 19 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters span 18 distinct examiners and 14 distinct art units, reflecting a broad and distributed prosecution docket.
NELSON, MATTHEW M is the busiest listed examiner, with 2 pending matters. The low concentration in the busiest examiner assignment means that counsel will need coordinated portfolio oversight across many examination relationships, while preserving matter-specific claim and prior-art analysis.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 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. 10 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 | 4 (22%) |
| §103 only | 6 (33%) |
| §102 only | 2 (11%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (22%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NELSON, MATTHEW M | 2 | 57.9% | +24.0% |
| SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | 1 | 65.5% | +27.7% |
| BAKER, CHARLOTTE M | 1 | 92.7% | +0.3% |
| LE, MICHAEL | 1 | 66.0% | +21.7% |
| KASENGE, CHARLES R | 1 | 83.9% | +13.9% |
| ROSEN, ERIC J | 1 | 41.3% | +22.8% |
| ISMAIL, OMAR S | 1 | 91.3% | +9.9% |
| MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1 | 46.1% | +43.1% |
| MOYER, ANDREW M | 1 | 76.6% | +12.6% |
| HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | 1 | 68.0% | +43.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18759601 | MILL CALIBRATION WITH SINGLE SCAN | KASENGE, CHARLES R | — |
| 18620144 | DETERMINING ROTATION AXIS FROM X-RAY RADIOGRAPHS | ISMAIL, OMAR S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17007922 | AUTOMATIC BITE SETTING | FARAJ, LINA AHMAD | 103d overdue |
| 18665272 | VIRTUAL DENTAL BRIDGE | ROSEN, ERIC J | 66d overdue |
| 18779374 | DENTAL CAD AUTOMATION USING DEEP LEARNING | NELSON, MATTHEW M | 46d overdue |
| 18344521 | ROTARY AXIS CALIBRATION WITH SINGLE SCAN | SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J | 17d overdue |
| 16594479 | CT Scanning of Impressions with Higher Radiodensity Material | LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 33d |
| 18364744 | MILLING BURS AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING QUALITY CONTROL OF THE SAME | HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | 35d |
| 19037591 | NEURAL NETWORK MARGIN PROPOSAL | BAKER, CHARLOTTE M | — |
| 18338011 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPOSITION FOR COLORING DENTAL CERAMICS | HOLLOMAN, NANNETTE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18665272 | VIRTUAL DENTAL BRIDGE | ROSEN, ERIC J | 66d overdue |
| 18779374 | DENTAL CAD AUTOMATION USING DEEP LEARNING | NELSON, MATTHEW M | 46d overdue |
| 18364744 | MILLING BURS AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING QUALITY CONTROL OF THE SAME | HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | 35d |
| 18428929 | RECYCLING OF SCRAP DENTAL ZIRCONIA BLOCK | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 56d |
| 18585904 | Reduction or Guidance Coping | NELSON, MATTHEW M | 84d |
| 19253404 | CONTINUOUS CUSTOM DENTAL RESTORATION MANUFACTURING PROCESS AND SYSTEM | SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | — |
| 18985677 | COMPRESSION OF CT RECONSTRUCTION IMAGES | LE, MICHAEL | — |
| 18759601 | MILL CALIBRATION WITH SINGLE SCAN | KASENGE, CHARLES R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 5 |
| 1743 | 1 |
| 2614 | 1 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| 2635 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 2675 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 2624 | 1 |
| 2117 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19253404 | CONTINUOUS CUSTOM DENTAL RESTORATION MANUFACTURING PROCESS AND SYSTEM | SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | 1743 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19037591 | NEURAL NETWORK MARGIN PROPOSAL | BAKER, CHARLOTTE M | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18985677 | COMPRESSION OF CT RECONSTRUCTION IMAGES | LE, MICHAEL | 2614 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18779374 | DENTAL CAD AUTOMATION USING DEEP LEARNING | NELSON, MATTHEW M | 3772 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18759601 | MILL CALIBRATION WITH SINGLE SCAN | KASENGE, CHARLES R | 2116 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18665272 | VIRTUAL DENTAL BRIDGE | ROSEN, ERIC J | 3772 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18620144 | DETERMINING ROTATION AXIS FROM X-RAY RADIOGRAPHS | ISMAIL, OMAR S | 2635 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18585904 | Reduction or Guidance Coping | NELSON, MATTHEW M | 3772 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18428929 | RECYCLING OF SCRAP DENTAL ZIRCONIA BLOCK | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18501546 | ALIGNMENT OF DIGITAL REPRESENTATIONS OF PATIENT DENTITION | MOYER, ANDREW M | 2675 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
| 18364744 | MILLING BURS AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING QUALITY CONTROL OF THE SAME | HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18353947 | DENTAL RESTORATION AUTOMATION | SHANKAR, VIJAY | 2624 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2023 |
| 18344521 | ROTARY AXIS CALIBRATION WITH SINGLE SCAN | SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J | 2117 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 18338011 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPOSITION FOR COLORING DENTAL CERAMICS | HOLLOMAN, NANNETTE | 1732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 18314678 | SCREW RETAINED DENTAL RESTORATION AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME | FARINA, MICHAEL VINCENT | 2115 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 107d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
| 17373088 | DENTAL RESTORATION DESIGN TOOLS | OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS | 2186 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Jul 12, 2021 |
| 17007922 | AUTOMATIC BITE SETTING | FARAJ, LINA AHMAD | 3772 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 103d overdue | Pending | Aug 31, 2020 |
| 16594479 | CT Scanning of Impressions with Higher Radiodensity Material | LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 3772 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Oct 07, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialJames R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics Inc. has 18 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 13 art units and 17 examiners.
Matthew M Nelson has the most, with 2 of James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
