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10 pending office actions • 1 client • 9 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 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. 9 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 only | 1 (10%) |
| §103 only | 6 (60%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 2 | 47.2% | +38.0% |
| NELSON, MATTHEW M | 1 | 57.8% | +23.5% |
| LEWIS, RALPH A | 1 | 67.0% | +23.4% |
| KABIR, SAAD M | 1 | 68.5% | +23.3% |
| MALIK, VIPUL | 1 | 65.3% | +40.0% |
| MAI, HAO D | 1 | 48.9% | +39.1% |
| MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H | 1 | 73.5% | +14.5% |
| BURKE, TIONNA M | 1 | 53.8% | +20.4% |
| TO, HOLLY T | 1 | 49.6% | +32.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18514083 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A VIRTUAL DEPICTION OF AN ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT | KABIR, SAAD M | 70d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18504071 | ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 46d overdue |
| 18050289 | METHODS FOR PLANNING ORTHO-RESTORATIVE TREATMENT PROCEDURES | TO, HOLLY T | 22d overdue |
| 18919166 | DENTAL TOOLS FOR REMOVING DENTAL AUXILIARIES FROM TEETH | LEWIS, RALPH A | 11d overdue |
| 18511887 | POST-PROCESSING OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED OBJECTS WITH COOLANTS | MALIK, VIPUL | 9d overdue |
| 18971833 | SYSTEMS FOR FABRICATION OF DENTAL APPLIANCES WITH ELONGATE SHAFTS AND CONNECTORS | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 19d |
| 18935286 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR POSITIONING DENTAL AUXILIARIES ON TEETH | NELSON, MATTHEW M | 22d |
| 18473908 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FABRICATING DENTAL APPLIANCES HAVING VARIABLE STIFFNESSES | MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H | 33d |
| 18514083 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A VIRTUAL DEPICTION OF AN ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT | KABIR, SAAD M | 70d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Align Technology | 10 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 6 |
| 2119 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| 1743 | 1 |
| 2178 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18971833 | SYSTEMS FOR FABRICATION OF DENTAL APPLIANCES WITH ELONGATE SHAFTS AND CONNECTORS | Align Technology, Inc. | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 3772 | Other | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18935286 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR POSITIONING DENTAL AUXILIARIES ON TEETH | Align Technology, Inc. | NELSON, MATTHEW M | 3772 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18919166 | DENTAL TOOLS FOR REMOVING DENTAL AUXILIARIES FROM TEETH | Align Technology, Inc. | LEWIS, RALPH A | 3772 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18514083 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A VIRTUAL DEPICTION OF AN ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT | Align Technology, Inc. | KABIR, SAAD M | 2119 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18511887 | POST-PROCESSING OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED OBJECTS WITH COOLANTS | Align Technology, Inc. | MALIK, VIPUL | 1754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18504071 | ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Align Technology, Inc. | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 3772 | Other | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 18476858 | ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCES WITH ELASTIC SEGMENTS | Align Technology, Inc. | MAI, HAO D | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18473908 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FABRICATING DENTAL APPLIANCES HAVING VARIABLE STIFFNESSES | Align Technology, Inc. | MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H | 1743 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18050295 | METHODS FOR GENERATING FACIAL LINES FOR DENTAL TREATMENT PLANNING | Align Technology, Inc. | BURKE, TIONNA M | 2178 | §103 | Final Rejection | 78d | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
| 18050289 | METHODS FOR PLANNING ORTHO-RESTORATIVE TREATMENT PROCEDURES | Align Technology, Inc. | TO, HOLLY T | 3772 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
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