Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
T33 Dental Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is situated in 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated technical focus for the company's current patenting efforts. The prosecution involves a unique examiner, which means the entirety of the company's pending workload is subject to the review of a single individual at the patent office.
GONZALEZ, LEI NMN is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling the pending action. Because there is only a single pending office action in the entire portfolio, this examiner's specific preferences and past decisions will be the primary factor in the company's immediate prosecution outcomes. Practitioners should focus on the specific procedural requirements of the art unit, as it represents the full scope of the company's current interaction with the patent office. This narrow footprint suggests a very specific set of innovations currently under review in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector, where the count of pending actions is equal to the count of 1 distinct examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GONZALEZ, LEI NMN | 1 | 42.9% | +51.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19284259 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DENTAL TREATMENT WITH EKF | GONZALEZ, LEI NMN | 14d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19284259 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DENTAL TREATMENT WITH EKF | GONZALEZ, LEI NMN | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jul 29, 2025 |
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