Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tokuyama Dental Corporation is actively prosecuting its patent applications in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 5 pending office actions, which indicates a significant level of ongoing interaction with the patent office. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, showing that the company's chemical and material innovations are being reviewed by 3 specialized groups. This distribution requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for the specific technical standards and examination practices of each of the 3 art units.
The prosecution involves 5 distinct examiners, ensuring that each of the 5 pending office actions is being handled by a different individual. COLLISTER, ELIZABETH A is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Because the number of examiners matches the number of pending actions, the workload is spread across the assigned staff without concentration under a single person. Practitioners should be prepared to handle 5 separate prosecution tracks, each with its own examiner, while navigating the requirements of the 3 art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLLISTER, ELIZABETH A | 1 | 81.5% | +14.3% |
| LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 1 | 78.4% | +9.4% |
| BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE | 1 | 58.7% | +37.5% |
| JONES, DAMERON LEVEST | 1 | 67.7% | +31.3% |
| ROSWELL, JESSICA MARIE | 1 | 52.2% | +36.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18838840 | MILL BLANK FOR DENTAL CUTTING AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | COLLISTER, ELIZABETH A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18698281 | MILL BLANK FOR DENTURES, CUT MEMBER FOR FRONT TOOTH, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR DENTURES | LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 15d |
| 18010594 | PHOTOCATIONICALLY CURABLE COMPOSITION AND DENTAL CURABLE COMPOSITION | ROSWELL, JESSICA MARIE | 27d |
| 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 4 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 |
| 18010594 | PHOTOCATIONICALLY CURABLE COMPOSITION AND DENTAL CURABLE COMPOSITION | ROSWELL, JESSICA MARIE | 27d |
| 18838840 | MILL BLANK FOR DENTAL CUTTING AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | COLLISTER, ELIZABETH A | — |
| 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 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18838840 | MILL BLANK FOR DENTAL CUTTING AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | COLLISTER, ELIZABETH A | 1784 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 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 | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18010594 | PHOTOCATIONICALLY CURABLE COMPOSITION AND DENTAL CURABLE COMPOSITION | ROSWELL, JESSICA MARIE | 1767 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Dec 15, 2022 |
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