Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Viax Dental Technologies LLC currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners. Despite having multiple pending matters, the portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a specific technical focus for these filings. Examiner PATEL, YOGESH P is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 2 pending office actions.
These actions represent a portion of the total 3 pending office actions for the company. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit may simplify internal tracking for the legal team, as they only need to monitor procedural trends within a single administrative division of the patent office. Because the examiners are working within the same unit, the company might encounter consistent examination styles across its pending matters. Practitioners should focus on the specific prosecution history of PATEL, YOGESH P to anticipate future developments. This centralized structure allows for a coordinated response to the active cases.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, YOGESH P | 1 | 57.9% | +58.6% |
| EIDE, HEIDI MARIE | 1 | 50.6% | +32.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18748503 | System For Preparing Teeth For The Placement Of Veneers | PATEL, YOGESH P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18012522 | System For Preparing Teeth For Restoration | EIDE, HEIDI MARIE | 12d |
| 18748503 | System For Preparing Teeth For The Placement Of Veneers | PATEL, YOGESH P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18748503 | System For Preparing Teeth For The Placement Of Veneers | PATEL, YOGESH P | 3772 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18012522 | System For Preparing Teeth For Restoration | EIDE, HEIDI MARIE | 3772 | §112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialViax Dental Technologies LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Yogesh P Patel has the most, with 1 of Viax Dental Technologies LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
