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
Produits Dentaires S A is managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to EIDE, HEIDI MARIE, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, representing a focused point of contact for the company's medical device prosecution. This concentrated activity allows the company to focus its resources on a specific point of contact at the patent office.
The presence of 1 pending office action in 1 distinct art unit with the mentioned distinct examiner represents a targeted prosecution effort. Practitioners should focus on the specific standards of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area and the individual tendencies of EIDE, HEIDI MARIE. Because there is only the current active matter, the company's medical device portfolio's success depends entirely on the resolution of this specific office action. This approach simplifies the management of intellectual property but also means that immediate outcomes are tied to the discretion of the assigned examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EIDE, HEIDI MARIE | 1 | 50.6% | +32.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18842694 | MEDICAL OR DENTAL DEVICE FOR DISPENSING A PASTY OR LIQUID COMPONENT | EIDE, HEIDI MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18842694 | MEDICAL OR DENTAL DEVICE FOR DISPENSING A PASTY OR LIQUID COMPONENT | EIDE, HEIDI MARIE | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialProduits Dentaires S A has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Heidi Marie Eide has the most, with 1 of Produits Dentaires S A's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
