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
Smilenext Inc. maintains a portfolio focused on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering with 1 pending office action. This activity is distributed across a single distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a precise alignment within the patent office's organizational structure. The presence of a single art unit indicates that the company's current filings are concentrated within a specific technological area. This concentration allows for a specialized prosecution strategy that accounts for the unique standards of that unit.
The busiest examiner for the company is SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P, who is currently managing the busiest examiner pending office action. Because there is only a single pending office action in total, this examiner is responsible for the entire active prosecution workload for Smilenext Inc. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the individual tendencies of this single examiner. Navigating the requirements of SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P is the primary task for advancing the company's pending application.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 1 | 46.9% | +38.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18769954 | ORTHODONTIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USING SAME | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18769954 | ORTHODONTIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USING SAME | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18769954 | ORTHODONTIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USING SAME | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 3772 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSmilenext Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Matthew P Saunders has the most, with 1 of Smilenext Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
