Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
De' Longhi Appliances S R L has 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 4 actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, including KUNDU, SUJOY K, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The activity is distributed across 2 distinct art units. This indicates that while the company is dealing with 4 distinct examiners, there is concentration at the art unit level.
Practitioners should note that the 4 actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, which may result in varying examination styles. Because KUNDU, SUJOY K only manages 1 pending action, no examiner holds a majority of the current workload. This requires a prosecution strategy that addresses the specific requirements of the 2 distinct art units and the various examiners involved in the current portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUNDU, SUJOY K | 1 | 85.6% | +1.0% |
| HATTEN, DANIEL WARD | 1 | 72.4% | +36.1% |
| MACEDA, KRYSTENE NHE BANDONG | 1 | 25.0% | +100.0% |
| FERDOUSI, FAHMIDA NMN | 1 | 42.6% | +32.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18719708 | METHOD FOR TREATING MILK OR A PLANT-BASED BEVERAGE AND DEVICE IMPLEMENTING SAID TREATMENT METHOD | KUNDU, SUJOY K | — |
| 18554910 | COFFEE MACHINE WITH MILK DISPENSING DEVICE AND RELATIVE METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A CURRENT MILK DISPENSING CYCLE | MACEDA, KRYSTENE NHE BANDONG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17769178 | A MACHINE FOR PREPARING BEVERAGES COMPRISING A SENSORISED ACCESSORY WITH RF TRANSMISSION OF THE VALUE MEASURED OF THE TEMPERATURE OF A LIQUID IN A CONTAINER | FERDOUSI, FAHMIDA NMN | 14d |
| 18563076 | MILK FROTHING DEVICE AND COFFEE MACHINE HAVING SAID MILK FROTHING DEVICE | HATTEN, DANIEL WARD | — |
| 18554910 | COFFEE MACHINE WITH MILK DISPENSING DEVICE AND RELATIVE METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A CURRENT MILK DISPENSING CYCLE | MACEDA, KRYSTENE NHE BANDONG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18719708 | METHOD FOR TREATING MILK OR A PLANT-BASED BEVERAGE AND DEVICE IMPLEMENTING SAID TREATMENT METHOD | KUNDU, SUJOY K | 1792 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18563076 | MILK FROTHING DEVICE AND COFFEE MACHINE HAVING SAID MILK FROTHING DEVICE | HATTEN, DANIEL WARD | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18554910 | COFFEE MACHINE WITH MILK DISPENSING DEVICE AND RELATIVE METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A CURRENT MILK DISPENSING CYCLE | MACEDA, KRYSTENE NHE BANDONG | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
| 17769178 | A MACHINE FOR PREPARING BEVERAGES COMPRISING A SENSORISED ACCESSORY WITH RF TRANSMISSION OF THE VALUE MEASURED OF THE TEMPERATURE OF A LIQUID IN A CONTAINER | FERDOUSI, FAHMIDA NMN | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Apr 14, 2022 |
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