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
Smile In One System LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is situated within a single art unit. The company is working with 1 distinct examiner for its current pending matters, indicating a very narrow prosecution focus at this time. This concentration means that the company's immediate patent strategy is focused on a single point of review within the patent office.
SHANNEL NICOLE BELK is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with the pending office action currently assigned. This single action represents the full extent of the company's active matters. The involvement of a single examiner and art unit suggests that the company's immediate patent strategy is concentrated in a specific technical and administrative niche. Practitioners should prepare for interactions specifically with SHANNEL NICOLE BELK and the standards of the assigned art unit. The focus within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area through a single examiner allows for a highly specialized response strategy. Successfully navigating the active prosecution will depend on addressing the specific concerns raised by 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE | 1 | 58.8% | +38.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19199327 | Protocol for Preparing and Fitting Prosthetics Using Pre-surgical Fiducial Markers and Registration Images Formed Thereby | BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19199327 | Protocol for Preparing and Fitting Prosthetics Using Pre-surgical Fiducial Markers and Registration Images Formed Thereby | BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19199327 | Protocol for Preparing and Fitting Prosthetics Using Pre-surgical Fiducial Markers and Registration Images Formed Thereby | BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE | 3772 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSmile In One System LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Shannel Nicole Belk has the most, with 1 of Smile In One System LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
