Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sirona Dental Systems GmbH maintains a prosecution pipeline with 8 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 8 distinct examiners, meaning every pending case is being reviewed by a different individual. This level of examiner diversity ensures that no single examiner's interpretation dominates the company's current filings.
The 8 pending office actions are spread across 5 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's medical and mechanical innovations are technically diverse, requiring expertise from multiple specialized departments at the USPTO. ROSEN, ERIC J is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, illustrating that the workload is evenly spread across the 8 distinct examiners.
For the legal team, managing 5 distinct art units requires a nuanced approach to different examination cultures. Since no examiner, including ROSEN, ERIC J, has more than 1 pending action, the company can focus on individual case merits without a backlog at a single official. The diversity of 8 distinct examiners across 5 distinct art units suggests a multifaceted patent strategy in the medical device sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (12%) |
| §103 only | 5 (62%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (25%) |
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% |
| SUMMERS, GEOFFREY E | 1 | 71.5% | +35.8% |
| GARCIA, SANTIAGO | 1 | 87.9% | +13.6% |
| COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 1 | 47.5% | +26.6% |
| XU, PETER | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| SAINI, AMANDEEP SINGH | 1 | 89.7% | +8.4% |
| WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 1 | 14.3% | +100.0% |
| PULVIDENTE, SYDNEY J | 1 | 46.7% | +15.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18578357 | DETERMINATION OF SURFACES AND VOLUMES WORTH PROTECTING IN ADDITIVE/SUBTRACTIVE MANUFACTURING JOBS WITH NEURAL NETWORKS | SAINI, AMANDEEP SINGH | 63d |
| 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18576539 | PLASTIC SPLINTS OR ALIGNERS FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF MALOCCLUSIONS BASED ON FORCE MEASUREMENT | WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 23d overdue |
| 18578452 | CONTROL OF WITHDRAWAL MOVEMENT IN 3D PRINTING USING A NEURAL NETWORK | XU, PETER | 15d |
| 18870304 | DENTAL HANDPIECE HAVING AN IMPROVED PUSH BUTTON GUIDANCE | ROSEN, ERIC J | 35d |
| 18853431 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING DIGITAL DENTAL IMPRESSIONS | SUMMERS, GEOFFREY E | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17436805 | TREATMENT APPARATUS FOR TREATING PERI-IMPLANTITIS | PULVIDENTE, SYDNEY J | 25d overdue |
| 18576539 | PLASTIC SPLINTS OR ALIGNERS FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF MALOCCLUSIONS BASED ON FORCE MEASUREMENT | WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 23d overdue |
| 18870304 | DENTAL HANDPIECE HAVING AN IMPROVED PUSH BUTTON GUIDANCE | ROSEN, ERIC J | 35d |
| 18853431 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING DIGITAL DENTAL IMPRESSIONS | SUMMERS, GEOFFREY E | — |
| 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 3 |
| 2673 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 2119 | 1 |
| 2662 | 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 |
| 18853431 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING DIGITAL DENTAL IMPRESSIONS | SUMMERS, GEOFFREY E | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 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 |
| 18578452 | CONTROL OF WITHDRAWAL MOVEMENT IN 3D PRINTING USING A NEURAL NETWORK | XU, PETER | 2119 | §103 | Final Rejection | 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 | Final Rejection | 63d | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18576539 | PLASTIC SPLINTS OR ALIGNERS FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF MALOCCLUSIONS BASED ON FORCE MEASUREMENT | WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 3772 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 17436805 | TREATMENT APPARATUS FOR TREATING PERI-IMPLANTITIS | PULVIDENTE, SYDNEY J | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Sep 07, 2021 |
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