Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Delica AG maintains a robust prosecution profile with 7 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 7 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, indicating a high level of diversification in the company's current patent activities. For a practitioner, this means managing a wide range of examination styles and procedural requirements simultaneously.
The busiest examiner, NGUYEN, THANH H, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since each of the 7 distinct examiners is only handling 1 pending office action, no single examiner has a dominant influence over the portfolio. However, the 7 pending office actions are distributed across 6 distinct art units, which means the practitioner must be prepared for the specific nuances and precedents of nearly half a dozen different USPTO groups.
Managing 7 pending office actions requires significant coordination to ensure that the company's overall intellectual property strategy remains cohesive. With 7 distinct examiners involved, the practitioner will receive a variety of feedback that must be reconciled. The presence of 6 distinct art units within the Chemistry & Materials area highlights the breadth of the company's technical focus and the complexity of its current prosecution landscape.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, THANH H | 1 | 18.5% | +34.3% |
| KASZTEJNA, MATTHEW JOHN | 1 | 64.5% | +13.1% |
| DURAND, PAUL R | 1 | 74.5% | +14.5% |
| HAUPT, KRISTY A | 1 | 87.9% | +11.1% |
| SMITH, CHAIM A | 1 | 39.0% | +50.9% |
| LACHICA, ERICSON M | 1 | 29.8% | +35.2% |
| NGUYEN, THUYHANG NGOC | 1 | 83.0% | +26.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18690603 | BREWING UNIT, BEVERAGE PREPARATION MACHINE AND BEVERAGE PREPARATION SYSTEM | HAUPT, KRISTY A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18711227 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A COMPOSTABLE BEVERAGE CAPSULE | NGUYEN, THANH H | — |
| 18690588 | BREWING UNIT,BEVERAGE PREPARATION MACHINE, METHOD FOR INSERTING A CAPSULE, AND BEVERAGE PREPARATION SYSTEM | KASZTEJNA, MATTHEW JOHN | — |
| 18690599 | BEVERAGE PREPARATION MACHINE, AND METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREPARING BEVERAGES | DURAND, PAUL R | — |
| 17639943 | COMPOSTABLE CAPSULES AND PRODUCTION AND USE THEREOF | LACHICA, ERICSON M | — |
| 17433840 | CAPSULE AND SYSTEM FOR PREPARING A LIQUID FOOD PRODUCT | NGUYEN, THUYHANG NGOC | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18711227 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A COMPOSTABLE BEVERAGE CAPSULE | NGUYEN, THANH H | — |
| 18690588 | BREWING UNIT,BEVERAGE PREPARATION MACHINE, METHOD FOR INSERTING A CAPSULE, AND BEVERAGE PREPARATION SYSTEM | KASZTEJNA, MATTHEW JOHN | — |
| 18690599 | BEVERAGE PREPARATION MACHINE, AND METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREPARING BEVERAGES | DURAND, PAUL R | — |
| 18690603 | BREWING UNIT, BEVERAGE PREPARATION MACHINE AND BEVERAGE PREPARATION SYSTEM | HAUPT, KRISTY A | — |
| 18258703 | CAPSULE, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREPARING A BEVERAGE | SMITH, CHAIM A | — |
| 17639943 | COMPOSTABLE CAPSULES AND PRODUCTION AND USE THEREOF | LACHICA, ERICSON M | — |
| 17433840 | CAPSULE AND SYSTEM FOR PREPARING A LIQUID FOOD PRODUCT | NGUYEN, THUYHANG NGOC | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 2 |
| 3993 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| 2876 | 1 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18711227 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A COMPOSTABLE BEVERAGE CAPSULE | NGUYEN, THANH H | 1792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18690588 | BREWING UNIT,BEVERAGE PREPARATION MACHINE, METHOD FOR INSERTING A CAPSULE, AND BEVERAGE PREPARATION SYSTEM | KASZTEJNA, MATTHEW JOHN | 3993 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18690599 | BEVERAGE PREPARATION MACHINE, AND METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREPARING BEVERAGES | DURAND, PAUL R | 3754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18690603 | BREWING UNIT, BEVERAGE PREPARATION MACHINE AND BEVERAGE PREPARATION SYSTEM | HAUPT, KRISTY A | 2876 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18258703 | CAPSULE, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREPARING A BEVERAGE | SMITH, CHAIM A | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2023 |
| 17639943 | COMPOSTABLE CAPSULES AND PRODUCTION AND USE THEREOF | LACHICA, ERICSON M | 1792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2022 |
| 17433840 | CAPSULE AND SYSTEM FOR PREPARING A LIQUID FOOD PRODUCT | NGUYEN, THUYHANG NGOC | 3700 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialDelica AG has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 7 examiners.
Thanh H Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Delica AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
