Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
16 pending office actions • 12 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 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. 16 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 only | 1 (6%) |
| §103 only | 14 (88%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
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 | 57.8% | +23.5% |
| LEWIS, RALPH A | 1 | 67.0% | +23.4% |
| FUJITA, KATRINA R | 1 | 70.2% | +24.0% |
| FUNK, ERICA HARTSELL | 1 | 69.7% | +13.3% |
| MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1 | 46.7% | +42.7% |
| KAKARLA, BHASKAR | 1 | — | — |
| HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | 1 | 65.0% | +45.2% |
| TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 1 | 61.3% | +35.6% |
| SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J | 1 | 69.3% | +25.9% |
| FARINA, MICHAEL VINCENT | 1 | 71.4% | +36.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17007922 | AUTOMATIC BITE SETTING | FARAJ, LINA AHMAD | 103d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18314678 | SCREW RETAINED DENTAL RESTORATION AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME | FARINA, MICHAEL VINCENT | 107d overdue |
| 18665272 | VIRTUAL DENTAL BRIDGE | LEWIS, RALPH A | 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 |
| 18631825 | DAMAGE-RESISTANT ZIRCONIA SINTERED BODY WITH HIGH STRENGTH, HIGH TOUGHNESS AND ANTIBACTERIAL PROPERTIES | FUNK, ERICA HARTSELL | 5d overdue |
| 18344001 | COLORING SOLUTIONS FOR GUM TISSUE COLOR MATCH FOR ZIRCONIA PROSTHESIS | TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 5d overdue |
| 18633139 | PROCESSING DIGITAL DENTAL IMPRESSION | FUJITA, KATRINA R | 34d |
| 18364744 | MILLING BURS AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING QUALITY CONTROL OF THE SAME | HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | 35d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 5 |
| 2672 | 1 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 2117 | 1 |
| 2115 | 1 |
| 2129 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18779374 | DENTAL CAD AUTOMATION USING DEEP LEARNING | NELSON, MATTHEW M | 3772 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18665272 | VIRTUAL DENTAL BRIDGE | LEWIS, RALPH A | 3772 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18633139 | PROCESSING DIGITAL DENTAL IMPRESSION | FUJITA, KATRINA R | 2672 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18631825 | DAMAGE-RESISTANT ZIRCONIA SINTERED BODY WITH HIGH STRENGTH, HIGH TOUGHNESS AND ANTIBACTERIAL PROPERTIES | FUNK, ERICA HARTSELL | 1741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Apr 10, 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 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18508739 | Methods of Making Dental Restorations from Sintered Preforms | KAKARLA, BHASKAR | 2116 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18364744 | MILLING BURS AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING QUALITY CONTROL OF THE SAME | HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18344001 | COLORING SOLUTIONS FOR GUM TISSUE COLOR MATCH FOR ZIRCONIA PROSTHESIS | TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 1612 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 18344521 | ROTARY AXIS CALIBRATION WITH SINGLE SCAN | SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J | 2117 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Jun 29, 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 |
| 17709560 | DENTAL CAD AUTOMATION USING DEEP LEARNING | ALABI, OLUWATOSIN O | 2129 | §102 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Mar 31, 2022 |
| 17373088 | DENTAL RESTORATION DESIGN TOOLS | OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS | 2186 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jul 12, 2021 |
| 17162833 | SIMULTANEOUS CT SCANNING AND RECONSTRUCTION | WINDSOR, COURTNEY J | 2661 | §103 | Final Rejection | 105d overdue | Pending | Jan 29, 2021 |
| 17007922 | AUTOMATIC BITE SETTING | FARAJ, LINA AHMAD | 3772 | §101 | Final Rejection | 103d overdue | Pending | Aug 31, 2020 |
| 16594479 | CT Scanning of Impressions with Higher Radiodensity Material | LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Oct 07, 2019 |
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