Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Elbi International S P A has 2 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 2 examiners and 2 art units.
MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE is the busiest examiner with 1 pending matter. The assignments are evenly distributed, supporting separate matter-level prosecution planning.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 1 | 64.6% | +31.2% |
| VARMA, AKASH K | 1 | 66.6% | +34.1% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17942671 | FILTERING SYSTEM, IN PARTICULAR FOR A WASHING OR DRYING MACHINE, SUCH AS A LAUNDRY WASHING MACHINE OR A CLOTHES DRYER | VARMA, AKASH K | 72d overdue |
| 19034737 | ACTUATOR DEVICE FOR ACTUATING A DOOR-LOCK DEVICE ON A HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE DOOR | MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 4d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19034737 | ACTUATOR DEVICE FOR ACTUATING A DOOR-LOCK DEVICE ON A HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE DOOR | MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 3675 | §112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 17942671 | FILTERING SYSTEM, IN PARTICULAR FOR A WASHING OR DRYING MACHINE, SUCH AS A LAUNDRY WASHING MACHINE OR A CLOTHES DRYER | VARMA, AKASH K | 1773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 72d overdue | Pending | Sep 12, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialElbi International S P A has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Alyson Marie Merlino has the most, with 1 of Elbi International S P A's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
