Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Orthodontic Research And Development S L has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very specific and singular focus for the company's current patent prosecution activities. Such a concentrated structure allows for a streamlined communication process between the applicant and the patent office.
The busiest examiner, MAI, HAO D, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's immediate success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field depends entirely on this one interaction. The prosecution strategy is highly localized, allowing for a concentrated effort on the specific requirements of this 1 pending office action. Practitioners can focus their resources on the preferences and feedback of this single examiner within the assigned art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAI, HAO D | 1 | 49.2% | +39.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19219645 | ORTHODONTIC DEVICE | MAI, HAO D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19219645 | ORTHODONTIC DEVICE | MAI, HAO D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19219645 | ORTHODONTIC DEVICE | MAI, HAO D | 3772 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialOrthodontic Research And Development S L has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Hao D Mai has the most, with 1 of Orthodontic Research And Development S L's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
