Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Osstem Implant Co. Ltd. currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 5 distinct examiners, meaning that no two pending actions are being reviewed by the same person. This distribution requires the applicant to navigate 5 different sets of examiner preferences and historical tendencies simultaneously.
The portfolio is active within 2 distinct art units, which provides some level of administrative consistency despite the variety of examiners. The busiest examiner, LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, each examiner is managing 1 action. This structure highlights a broad prosecution front where the company must address the requirements of 2 art units through separate individual dialogues.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (40%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 1 | 78.4% | +9.4% |
| LU, ZHIYU | 1 | 48.9% | +14.1% |
| SAMWEL, DANIEL | 1 | 74.7% | +24.4% |
| WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 1 | 14.3% | +100.0% |
| SMITH, EMILIE ALINE | 1 | 49.4% | +35.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17917428 | MAXILLARY SINUS LIFTING SIMULATION METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR | SMITH, EMILIE ALINE | 12d |
| 17924245 | TRANSPARENT BRACES DESIGN METHOD FOR CREATING TREATMENT PLAN, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR | WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 21d |
| 19121045 | IMPLANT SURGERY GUIDE DEVICE | LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17917428 | MAXILLARY SINUS LIFTING SIMULATION METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR | SMITH, EMILIE ALINE | 12d |
| 17924245 | TRANSPARENT BRACES DESIGN METHOD FOR CREATING TREATMENT PLAN, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR | WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 21d |
| 18868727 | DENTAL LESION INFORMATION VISUALIZATION METHOD AND SYSTEM | LU, ZHIYU | — |
| 18852899 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MANIPULATION HANDLE FOR ORTHODONTIC CAD | SAMWEL, DANIEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 2 |
| 1686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19121045 | IMPLANT SURGERY GUIDE DEVICE | LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 3772 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
| 18868727 | DENTAL LESION INFORMATION VISUALIZATION METHOD AND SYSTEM | LU, ZHIYU | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 18852899 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MANIPULATION HANDLE FOR ORTHODONTIC CAD | SAMWEL, DANIEL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 17924245 | TRANSPARENT BRACES DESIGN METHOD FOR CREATING TREATMENT PLAN, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR | WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 3772 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Nov 09, 2022 |
| 17917428 | MAXILLARY SINUS LIFTING SIMULATION METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR | SMITH, EMILIE ALINE | 1686 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Oct 06, 2022 |
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