Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sirona Dental Systems GmbH has 7 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 7 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, indicating broad examiner distribution across a more limited set of art-unit assignments. ROSEN, ERIC J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter.
The portfolio requires examiner-specific docket management while offering an opportunity to monitor recurring art-unit practices. Counsel should coordinate claim language and technical positions across the five art-unit contexts, but responses must address the separate examiner records. ROSEN, ERIC J handles 1 pending matter, so no examiner is shown as dominant.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 3 (60%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROSEN, ERIC J | 1 | 41.3% | +22.8% |
| GARCIA, SANTIAGO | 1 | 87.9% | +13.6% |
| COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 1 | 47.5% | +25.7% |
| GROSS, JASON PATRICK | 1 | 64.0% | +43.3% |
| WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 1 | 13.3% | +66.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18640187 | Method and System for Providing a Merged Image of an Oral Cavity | GARCIA, SANTIAGO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17436805 | TREATMENT APPARATUS FOR TREATING PERI-IMPLANTITIS | WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 25d overdue |
| 18870304 | DENTAL HANDPIECE HAVING AN IMPROVED PUSH BUTTON GUIDANCE | ROSEN, ERIC J | 35d |
| 18369245 | Anatomy Masking for MRI | GROSS, JASON PATRICK | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17436805 | TREATMENT APPARATUS FOR TREATING PERI-IMPLANTITIS | WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 25d overdue |
| 18870304 | DENTAL HANDPIECE HAVING AN IMPROVED PUSH BUTTON GUIDANCE | ROSEN, ERIC J | 35d |
| 18640187 | Method and System for Providing a Merged Image of an Oral Cavity | GARCIA, SANTIAGO | — |
| 18692594 | DENTAL COIL AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE DEVICE FOR IMAGING A JAW REGION | COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | — |
| 18369245 | Anatomy Masking for MRI | GROSS, JASON PATRICK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 2 |
| 3797 | 2 |
| 2673 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18870304 | DENTAL HANDPIECE HAVING AN IMPROVED PUSH BUTTON GUIDANCE | ROSEN, ERIC J | 3772 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18640187 | Method and System for Providing a Merged Image of an Oral Cavity | GARCIA, SANTIAGO | 2673 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18692594 | DENTAL COIL AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE DEVICE FOR IMAGING A JAW REGION | COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18369245 | Anatomy Masking for MRI | GROSS, JASON PATRICK | 3797 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 17436805 | TREATMENT APPARATUS FOR TREATING PERI-IMPLANTITIS | WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Sep 07, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialSirona Dental Systems GmbH has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 5 examiners.
Eric J Rosen has the most, with 1 of Sirona Dental Systems GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
