Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
13 pending office actions • 1 client • 12 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
This profile records 15 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering and 20556 career applications. The pending figure reflects current activity for this client-focused profile, while the application figure is the supplied broader prosecution measure.
The resolved allowance rate is 75.45%, with 3.18 office actions per allowance on average. The historical record therefore combines an allowance result below four-fifths with more than three office actions for allowed matters.
Practitioners can use these figures to distinguish the current client docket from the reported firm-level prosecution history. They provide context for review, but do not establish a client-specific allowance rate or predict an individual medical-device matter.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 5 (38%) |
| §103 only | 5 (38%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (23%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| APONTE, MIRAYDA ARLENE | 2 | 63.1% | +21.1% |
| RETALLICK, KAITLIN A | 1 | 76.0% | +10.0% |
| FATIMA, UROOJ | 1 | 75.0% | +0.0% |
| NELSON, MATTHEW M | 1 | 57.9% | +24.0% |
| LEE, BENEDICT E | 1 | 87.8% | +13.1% |
| HANCE, ROBERT J | 1 | 66.4% | +21.7% |
| FARAJ, LINA AHMAD | 1 | 42.1% | +69.8% |
| SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 1 | 46.9% | +38.4% |
| HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | 1 | 41.1% | +49.4% |
| WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 1 | 13.3% | +66.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18189102 | DIRECT FABRICATION OF ORTHODONTIC ALIGNERS | WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 58d overdue |
| 18669345 | TREATMENT PLAN SPECIFIC BITE ADJUSTMENT STRUCTURES | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 43d overdue |
| 18050140 | PROSTHODONTIC AND ORTHODONTIC APPARATUS AND METHODS | GIRI, PURSOTTAM | 18d overdue |
| 17990160 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING DENTAL ALIGNER GEOMETRY | EIDE, HEIDI MARIE | 14d |
| 19301633 | MULTIMODAL INTRAORAL SCANNING SYSTEMS | RETALLICK, KAITLIN A | — |
| 19025679 | DENTAL APPLIANCES FOR CREATING OPPOSING COUNTER MOMENTS BETWEEN TEETH | APONTE, MIRAYDA ARLENE | — |
| 19025083 | DENTAL APPLIANCES WITH REINFORCED REPOSITIONING JAW ELEMENTS | NELSON, MATTHEW M | — |
| 18948374 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR LIGHT CURING WITH AN INTRAORAL SCANNER | LEE, BENEDICT E | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18189102 | DIRECT FABRICATION OF ORTHODONTIC ALIGNERS | WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 58d overdue |
| 18633717 | DENTAL APPLIANCES FOR CREATING OPPOSING COUNTER MOMENTS BETWEEN TEETH | APONTE, MIRAYDA ARLENE | 44d overdue |
| 18669345 | TREATMENT PLAN SPECIFIC BITE ADJUSTMENT STRUCTURES | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 43d overdue |
| 18497534 | OCCLUSAL BLOCKS FOR MANDIBULAR RELOCATION | HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | 23d overdue |
| 19301633 | MULTIMODAL INTRAORAL SCANNING SYSTEMS | RETALLICK, KAITLIN A | — |
| 19025679 | DENTAL APPLIANCES FOR CREATING OPPOSING COUNTER MOMENTS BETWEEN TEETH | APONTE, MIRAYDA ARLENE | — |
| 19025083 | DENTAL APPLIANCES WITH REINFORCED REPOSITIONING JAW ELEMENTS | NELSON, MATTHEW M | — |
| 18948374 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR LIGHT CURING WITH AN INTRAORAL SCANNER | LEE, BENEDICT E | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Align Technology | 13 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 8 |
| 2482 | 1 |
| 2676 | 1 |
| 2665 | 1 |
| 3992 | 1 |
| 2186 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19301633 | MULTIMODAL INTRAORAL SCANNING SYSTEMS | Align Technology, Inc. | RETALLICK, KAITLIN A | 2482 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 19069092 | PROCESSING 2D INTRAORAL IMAGES AND RENDERING NOVEL VIEWS OF PATIENTS | Align Technology, Inc. | FATIMA, UROOJ | 2676 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19025679 | DENTAL APPLIANCES FOR CREATING OPPOSING COUNTER MOMENTS BETWEEN TEETH | Align Technology, Inc. | APONTE, MIRAYDA ARLENE | 3772 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19025083 | DENTAL APPLIANCES WITH REINFORCED REPOSITIONING JAW ELEMENTS | Align Technology, Inc. | NELSON, MATTHEW M | 3772 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18948374 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR LIGHT CURING WITH AN INTRAORAL SCANNER | Align Technology, Inc. | LEE, BENEDICT E | 2665 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18901423 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TOOTH SHADE IMAGING IN DENTAL TREATMENT | Align Technology, Inc. | HANCE, ROBERT J | 3992 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18769740 | DIRECT FABRICATION OF MIXED METAL AND POLYMER PALATAL DEVICES | Align Technology, Inc. | FARAJ, LINA AHMAD | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18669345 | TREATMENT PLAN SPECIFIC BITE ADJUSTMENT STRUCTURES | Align Technology, Inc. | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 3772 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18633717 | DENTAL APPLIANCES FOR CREATING OPPOSING COUNTER MOMENTS BETWEEN TEETH | Align Technology, Inc. | APONTE, MIRAYDA ARLENE | 3772 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18497534 | OCCLUSAL BLOCKS FOR MANDIBULAR RELOCATION | Align Technology, Inc. | HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | 3772 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
| 18189102 | DIRECT FABRICATION OF ORTHODONTIC ALIGNERS | Align Technology, Inc. | WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 3772 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 58d overdue | Pending | Mar 23, 2023 |
| 17990160 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING DENTAL ALIGNER GEOMETRY | Align Technology, Inc. | EIDE, HEIDI MARIE | 3772 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Nov 18, 2022 |
| 18050140 | PROSTHODONTIC AND ORTHODONTIC APPARATUS AND METHODS | Align Technology, Inc. | GIRI, PURSOTTAM | 2186 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial75.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by Fisherbroyles, LLP - Align Technology, Inc. were allowed, across 20,556 applications in USPTO records.
3.18 office actions per allowed application on average.
13 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 12 examiners in 6 art units.
