Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tokuyama Dental Corporation has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating examiner dispersion within a more limited art-unit structure.
LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D is the busiest examiner and handles 1 pending action. Counsel should coordinate responses across the two art units while preserving examiner-specific treatment where needed.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 | 1 | 78.4% | +9.5% |
| BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE | 1 | 58.8% | +38.0% |
| JONES, DAMERON LEVEST | 1 | 67.8% | +31.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18698281 | MILL BLANK FOR DENTURES, CUT MEMBER FOR FRONT TOOTH, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR DENTURES | LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 15d |
| 18580274 | X-RAY OPAQUE FILLER MATERIAL, X-RAY OPAQUE DENTAL FILLER MATERIAL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING X-RAY OPAQUE FILLER MATERIAL, AND CURABLE DENTAL COMPOSITION | JONES, DAMERON LEVEST | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18294073 | CROWN APPEARANCE COLOR CONFIRMING METHOD, INSTRUMENT KIT, AND DEMONSTRATION INSTRUMENT | BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE | 37d overdue |
| 18580274 | X-RAY OPAQUE FILLER MATERIAL, X-RAY OPAQUE DENTAL FILLER MATERIAL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING X-RAY OPAQUE FILLER MATERIAL, AND CURABLE DENTAL COMPOSITION | JONES, DAMERON LEVEST | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 2 |
| 1618 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18698281 | MILL BLANK FOR DENTURES, CUT MEMBER FOR FRONT TOOTH, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR DENTURES | LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 3772 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
| 18294073 | CROWN APPEARANCE COLOR CONFIRMING METHOD, INSTRUMENT KIT, AND DEMONSTRATION INSTRUMENT | BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE | 3772 | §112 | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18580274 | X-RAY OPAQUE FILLER MATERIAL, X-RAY OPAQUE DENTAL FILLER MATERIAL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING X-RAY OPAQUE FILLER MATERIAL, AND CURABLE DENTAL COMPOSITION | JONES, DAMERON LEVEST | 1618 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTokuyama Dental Corporation has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Nicholas D Lucchesi has the most, with 1 of Tokuyama Dental Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
