Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Merz Dental GmbH currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a very narrow and focused presence at the USPTO. The entire immediate future of the company's pending chemistry portfolio is tied to the decisions made within this single administrative channel.
The busiest examiner, ROBITAILLE, JOHN P, is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there is only 1 pending office action in total, ROBITAILLE, JOHN P is the sole point of contact for the company's current prosecution efforts. This concentration simplifies the communication strategy, as the applicant only needs to account for the preferences and history of 1 distinct examiner and the specific practices of 1 distinct art unit.
The focus on Chemistry & Materials suggests that the underlying technology is specialized, and the use of the single art unit confirms that the subject matter falls into a specific technical category. Practitioners should analyze the past allowance rates and interview habits of ROBITAILLE, JOHN P to resolve the 1 pending office action. Without other examiners or art units to consider, the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on this single examiner's interpretation of the active matter.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBITAILLE, JOHN P | 1 | 62.6% | +22.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17425998 | DIGITAL DENTAL ARCH DATABASE | ROBITAILLE, JOHN P | 22d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17425998 | DIGITAL DENTAL ARCH DATABASE | ROBITAILLE, JOHN P | 22d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1743 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17425998 | DIGITAL DENTAL ARCH DATABASE | ROBITAILLE, JOHN P | 1743 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Jul 27, 2021 |
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