Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
VITA ZAHNFABRIK H. RAUTER GMBH & CO. KG has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, so the data shows no shared assignment.
MELLOTT, JAMES M is the busiest examiner with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate the underlying technical position while tailoring each response to its separate examination setting.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELLOTT, JAMES M | 1 | 51.1% | +44.1% |
| RUMMEL, JULIA L | 1 | 34.8% | +52.4% |
| MAI, HAO D | 1 | 49.2% | +39.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18719412 | Multi-Layer Structure | RUMMEL, JULIA L | 70d |
| 17772030 | ARTIFICIAL TOOTH ELEMENT | MAI, HAO D | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18719412 | Multi-Layer Structure | RUMMEL, JULIA L | 70d |
| 18851447 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A DENTAL RESTORATION HAVING A TARGET COLOR VALUE | MELLOTT, JAMES M | — |
| 17772030 | ARTIFICIAL TOOTH ELEMENT | MAI, HAO D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18851447 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A DENTAL RESTORATION HAVING A TARGET COLOR VALUE | MELLOTT, JAMES M | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18719412 | Multi-Layer Structure | RUMMEL, JULIA L | 1784 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 17772030 | ARTIFICIAL TOOTH ELEMENT | MAI, HAO D | 3772 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialVITA ZAHNFABRIK H. RAUTER GMBH & CO. KG has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
James M Mellott has the most, with 1 of VITA ZAHNFABRIK H. RAUTER GMBH & CO. KG's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
