Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Carlsberg Breweries A/S currently manages 5 pending office actions. These filings are located within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, spanning across 2 distinct art units at the patent office. This indicates that the company's current patent activity is focused on mechanical systems and medical-related technologies.
The company's prosecution involves 5 distinct examiners, each handling a portion of the active docket. FREDERICK C NICOLAS is listed as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This distribution indicates that the 5 pending actions are spread individually among the 5 examiners assigned to the company's cases. With a one-to-one ratio of examiners to pending actions, the company's prosecution strategy must be tailored to 5 different individual reviewers. This decentralized approach across 2 art units requires managing multiple examiner relationships simultaneously.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | 1 | 81.3% | +12.7% |
| ZADEH, BOB | 1 | 77.0% | +38.6% |
| LONG, DONNELL ALAN | 1 | 75.8% | +15.1% |
| HOLMES, JUSTIN | 1 | 88.9% | +10.0% |
| BUTLER, MICHAEL E | 1 | 51.3% | +21.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18873926 | CONNECTOR FOR BEVERAGE DISPENSE LINE | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18246525 | A DIGITAL BEVERAGE FONT LENS | BUTLER, MICHAEL E | 7d |
| 18502908 | Monitoring of a Beverage Dispensing System | HOLMES, JUSTIN | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18246525 | A DIGITAL BEVERAGE FONT LENS | BUTLER, MICHAEL E | 7d |
| 18839512 | COOLING ARRANGEMENT FOR A BEVERAGE DISPENSING SYSTEM | ZADEH, BOB | 14d |
| 18839490 | Exchangeable applicator for inserting a flexible line and a dispensing valve in a beverage tapping head | LONG, DONNELL ALAN | 29d |
| 18873926 | CONNECTOR FOR BEVERAGE DISPENSE LINE | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | — |
| 18502908 | Monitoring of a Beverage Dispensing System | HOLMES, JUSTIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 3 |
| 3655 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18873926 | CONNECTOR FOR BEVERAGE DISPENSE LINE | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | 3754 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18839512 | COOLING ARRANGEMENT FOR A BEVERAGE DISPENSING SYSTEM | ZADEH, BOB | 3754 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18839490 | Exchangeable applicator for inserting a flexible line and a dispensing valve in a beverage tapping head | LONG, DONNELL ALAN | 3754 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18502908 | Monitoring of a Beverage Dispensing System | HOLMES, JUSTIN | 3655 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18246525 | A DIGITAL BEVERAGE FONT LENS | BUTLER, MICHAEL E | 3655 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Mar 24, 2023 |
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