Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Voyager Dental Inc. operates in the Computing & Software technology area and currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners. However, the data shows that all activity is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the company is dealing with different examiners, the technical subject matter of its applications is closely related and falls under the same administrative category. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit provides a consistent technical baseline for the company's current filings.
The busiest examiner for Voyager Dental Inc. is MIRABITO, MICHAEL PAUL, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split evenly between the 2 distinct examiners. This distribution means the company must navigate the preferences of two different individuals within a single art unit. The focus on 1 distinct art unit indicates a consistent technical theme across the company's current software-related patent filings. Practitioners should be aware that the company's success is distributed across two separate prosecution tracks within the same technical division.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIRABITO, MICHAEL PAUL | 1 | 37.8% | +6.3% |
| LYON, ALEXANDER WALKER | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18328584 | AUTO-DENTURE DESIGN SETUP SYSTEMS | MIRABITO, MICHAEL PAUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2187 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18328584 | AUTO-DENTURE DESIGN SETUP SYSTEMS | MIRABITO, MICHAEL PAUL | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
| 18174361 | COLOR DIGITAL DENTURE DESIGN AND REPLACEMENT | LYON, ALEXANDER WALKER | 2187 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
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