Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sonendo Inc. has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing concentration at the art-unit level but not within a single examiner assignment.
SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P is the busiest examiner and handles 2 pending actions. That examiner warrants particular coordination, while the remaining matters require separate treatment across the other examiner assignments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 2 | 78.4% | +9.5% |
| SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 2 | 46.9% | +38.4% |
| BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE | 1 | 58.8% | +38.0% |
| COMSTOCK, DAVID C | 1 | 86.6% | -8.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17390606 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENDODONTIC TREATMENT | COMSTOCK, DAVID C | 71d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18209868 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR FILLING TEETH AND ROOT CANALS | LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 43d |
| 18627341 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR TREATING TEETH | BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE | — |
| 16894667 | DENTAL TREATMENT SYSTEM | LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17412774 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR CLEANING TEETH AND ROOT CANALS | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 13d |
| 18627341 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR TREATING TEETH | BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE | — |
| 16858401 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR CLEANING TEETH AND GINGIVAL POCKETS | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 5 |
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18627341 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR TREATING TEETH | BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE | 3772 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18209868 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR FILLING TEETH AND ROOT CANALS | LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 3772 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 43d | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 17412774 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR CLEANING TEETH AND ROOT CANALS | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 3772 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Aug 26, 2021 |
| 17390606 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENDODONTIC TREATMENT | COMSTOCK, DAVID C | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | 71d overdue | Pending | Jul 30, 2021 |
| 16894667 | DENTAL TREATMENT SYSTEM | LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 3772 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2020 |
| 16858401 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR CLEANING TEETH AND GINGIVAL POCKETS | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialSonendo Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Nicholas D Lucchesi has the most, with 2 of Sonendo Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
