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
Teknek Dental Laboratories LLC is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, with 1 pending office action currently on record. This single action represents the company's active prosecution workload. The matter is being handled within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical niche within the medical device field.
The examination process involves 1 distinct examiner, NELSON, CHRISTINE L. As the busiest examiner for the company, NELSON, CHRISTINE L is managing 1 pending office action. This means that the company's current patent activity is concentrated under the review of this examiner, whose feedback will be critical to the 1 pending office action.
With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution landscape is very focused. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit further defines the technical scope of the current interaction. NELSON, CHRISTINE L's management of the 1 pending office action is the central element of the company's current patent office activity in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NELSON, CHRISTINE L | 1 | 62.7% | +33.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18763025 | RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY JAW ARRANGEMENT | NELSON, CHRISTINE L | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18763025 | RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY JAW ARRANGEMENT | NELSON, CHRISTINE L | 3772 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
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