Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Solmetex LLC has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, so each matter currently has a separate examination assignment.
APONTE, MIRAYDA ARLENE is the busiest examiner with 1 pending matter. The data show no repeated examiner or art-unit relationship. Counsel can address each matter independently while retaining a common technical framework.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| APONTE, MIRAYDA ARLENE | 1 | 63.1% | +21.1% |
| HOBSON, STEPHEN | 1 | 65.0% | +20.1% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19199177 | INTRAORAL DEVICE | APONTE, MIRAYDA ARLENE | — |
| 18956886 | Apparatus and Method for Removing Amalgam and Waste Particles From Dental Office Suction Effluent | HOBSON, STEPHEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19199177 | INTRAORAL DEVICE | APONTE, MIRAYDA ARLENE | 3772 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2025 |
| 18956886 | Apparatus and Method for Removing Amalgam and Waste Particles From Dental Office Suction Effluent | HOBSON, STEPHEN | 1776 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSolmetex LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Mirayda Arlene Aponte has the most, with 1 of Solmetex LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
