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
Pac-Dent Inc. holds a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action associated with this portfolio. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. This represents a highly focused and singular point of prosecution for the company's dental-related medical and mechanical intellectual property.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is TO, HOLLY T, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is the only individual currently reviewing the company's pending applications. For a practitioner, this consolidation means that the entire current prosecution effort is subject to the specific interpretations and requirements of this one examiner. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit indicates that the technology being patented is currently confined to a specific niche within the medical devices field. Strategy should be tailored specifically to the history and patterns of the identified examiner to ensure a successful outcome for the single pending action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TO, HOLLY T | 1 | 47.5% | +33.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19217769 | System and Method for Root Canal Treatment | TO, HOLLY T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19217769 | System and Method for Root Canal Treatment | TO, HOLLY T | 3772 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialPac-Dent Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Holly T To has the most, with 1 of Pac-Dent Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
