Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ultradent Products Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. This indicates that each pending application is being reviewed by a different individual at the patent office.
The prosecution is spread across 2 distinct art units. This shows that the 2 pending actions are classified into different technical groups. The use of multiple art units and examiners suggests a lack of concentration in the company's current pending docket.
MORAN, EDWARD JOHN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 2 pending actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is currently managing 1 action. This distribution ensures that the busiest examiner does not handle a majority of the company's active matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORAN, EDWARD JOHN | 1 | 41.8% | +61.1% |
| LEE, EDMUND H | 1 | 69.6% | +17.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18428749 | WAX-BASED COMPOSITIONS, ARTICLES MADE THEREFROM, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE AND USE | MORAN, EDWARD JOHN | 72d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16988449 | OVERMOLDING TECHNIQUES AND RELATED ARTICLES PRODUCED THEREFROM | LEE, EDMUND H | 46d |
| 18428749 | WAX-BASED COMPOSITIONS, ARTICLES MADE THEREFROM, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE AND USE | MORAN, EDWARD JOHN | 72d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18428749 | WAX-BASED COMPOSITIONS, ARTICLES MADE THEREFROM, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE AND USE | MORAN, EDWARD JOHN | 3772 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 72d | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 16988449 | OVERMOLDING TECHNIQUES AND RELATED ARTICLES PRODUCED THEREFROM | LEE, EDMUND H | 1744 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d | Pending | Aug 07, 2020 |
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