Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Sirona Dental Systems GmbH

12 pending office actions • 9 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
6
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

2
Hard (17%)
10
Medium (83%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (17%)
§103 only9 (75%)
§102 only1 (8%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
8% of docket
2
Information Tech
17% of docket
3
Communications
25% of docket
1
Semiconductors
8% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
42% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HUNTSINGER, PETER K 2 28.5% +16.1%
LEWIS, RALPH A 1 67.0% +23.4%
LE, LINH GIANG 1 65.9% -4.7%
NAJARIAN, LENA 1 38.5% +39.6%
PATEL, RISHI R 1 82.5% +2.9%
XU, PETER 1
SAINI, AMANDEEP SINGH 1 89.7% +8.5%
WANG, ZHIPENG 1 80.7% +22.9%
WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE 1 25.0% +100.0%
ROBITAILLE, JOHN P 1 63.0% +21.5%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18576763 OPTIMIZATION OF DOSE DISTRIBUTION IN 3D PRINTING BY MEANS OF A NEURAL NETWORK WANG, ZHIPENG 15d
18692498 Local Coil for the Magnetic Resonance Imaging of a Temporomandibular Joint PATEL, RISHI R 30d
18578357 DETERMINATION OF SURFACES AND VOLUMES WORTH PROTECTING IN ADDITIVE/SUBTRACTIVE MANUFACTURING JOBS WITH NEURAL NETWORKS SAINI, AMANDEEP SINGH 63d

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18955882 Means for Managing a Dental Aligner Treatment in Dependence of Magnetic Resonance Data LE, LINH GIANG 112d overdue
18576539 PLASTIC SPLINTS OR ALIGNERS FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF MALOCCLUSIONS BASED ON FORCE MEASUREMENT WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE 23d overdue
18290839 AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF A REPROJECTION PANORAMIC VIEW FROM DENTAL DVT VOLUMES USING MACHINE LEARNING METHODS HUNTSINGER, PETER K 16d
17442681 METHOD OF PREVENTING FLUID COLLECTION / SUCTION IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF 3D OBJECTS ROBITAILLE, JOHN P 16d
18290935 METHOD FOR GENERATING A REPROJECTION PANORAMIC VIEW ALIGNED WITH THE COURSE OF THE MANDIBULAR CANAL HUNTSINGER, PETER K 21d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18576539 PLASTIC SPLINTS OR ALIGNERS FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF MALOCCLUSIONS BASED ON FORCE MEASUREMENT WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE 23d overdue
18709194 COMPUTER-ASSISTED MEDICAL PROCEDURES NAJARIAN, LENA 11d overdue
18576763 OPTIMIZATION OF DOSE DISTRIBUTION IN 3D PRINTING BY MEANS OF A NEURAL NETWORK WANG, ZHIPENG 15d
18290839 AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF A REPROJECTION PANORAMIC VIEW FROM DENTAL DVT VOLUMES USING MACHINE LEARNING METHODS HUNTSINGER, PETER K 16d
17442681 METHOD OF PREVENTING FLUID COLLECTION / SUCTION IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF 3D OBJECTS ROBITAILLE, JOHN P 16d
18290935 METHOD FOR GENERATING A REPROJECTION PANORAMIC VIEW ALIGNED WITH THE COURSE OF THE MANDIBULAR CANAL HUNTSINGER, PETER K 21d
18870304 DENTAL HANDPIECE HAVING AN IMPROVED PUSH BUTTON GUIDANCE LEWIS, RALPH A 35d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3772 3
2682 2
3686 1
3687 1
2896 1
2119 1
2662 1
2115 1
1743 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18870304 DENTAL HANDPIECE HAVING AN IMPROVED PUSH BUTTON GUIDANCE LEWIS, RALPH A 3772 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Nov 27, 2024
18955882 Means for Managing a Dental Aligner Treatment in Dependence of Magnetic Resonance Data LE, LINH GIANG 3686 §101 Non-Final OA 112d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2024
18709194 COMPUTER-ASSISTED MEDICAL PROCEDURES NAJARIAN, LENA 3687 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending May 10, 2024
18692498 Local Coil for the Magnetic Resonance Imaging of a Temporomandibular Joint PATEL, RISHI R 2896 §102 Final Rejection 30d Pending Mar 15, 2024
18290839 AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF A REPROJECTION PANORAMIC VIEW FROM DENTAL DVT VOLUMES USING MACHINE LEARNING METHODS HUNTSINGER, PETER K 2682 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Jan 22, 2024
18290935 METHOD FOR GENERATING A REPROJECTION PANORAMIC VIEW ALIGNED WITH THE COURSE OF THE MANDIBULAR CANAL HUNTSINGER, PETER K 2682 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Jan 22, 2024
18578452 CONTROL OF WITHDRAWAL MOVEMENT IN 3D PRINTING USING A NEURAL NETWORK XU, PETER 2119 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jan 11, 2024
18578357 DETERMINATION OF SURFACES AND VOLUMES WORTH PROTECTING IN ADDITIVE/SUBTRACTIVE MANUFACTURING JOBS WITH NEURAL NETWORKS SAINI, AMANDEEP SINGH 2662 §103 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Jan 11, 2024
18576763 OPTIMIZATION OF DOSE DISTRIBUTION IN 3D PRINTING BY MEANS OF A NEURAL NETWORK WANG, ZHIPENG 2115 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jan 05, 2024
18576539 PLASTIC SPLINTS OR ALIGNERS FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF MALOCCLUSIONS BASED ON FORCE MEASUREMENT WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE 3772 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Jan 04, 2024
17442681 METHOD OF PREVENTING FLUID COLLECTION / SUCTION IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF 3D OBJECTS ROBITAILLE, JOHN P 1743 §101 Final Rejection 16d Pending Sep 24, 2021
17436805 TREATMENT APPARATUS FOR TREATING PERI-IMPLANTITIS PULVIDENTE, SYDNEY J 3772 §103 Final Rejection 25d overdue Pending Sep 07, 2021

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