2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Flos S.p.A. currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting diverse technical subject matter even for such a small number of pending cases. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is assigned to a different individual. This one-to-one ratio between actions and examiners indicates that there is no overlap in the personnel reviewing the company's current patent filings. This lack of overlap means that the company cannot rely on consistent feedback from a single examiner to guide its overall prosecution strategy. For practitioners, this means that each of the 2 pending office actions must be handled as a completely separate matter.
SANTOS, MELISSA ADRIANE is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. With 2 pending actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly split between the two individuals. Each action is also located in a different distinct art unit, which further emphasizes the technical variety in the company's small portfolio. For practitioners, this means that each of the 2 pending office actions must be handled as a completely separate matter, as they are being reviewed by different examiners in different technical departments. The absence of a primary technology area in the data further suggests that these filings may be specialized or niche applications that do not fall into the most common patent categories.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANTOS, MELISSA ADRIANE | 1 | 95.2% | +6.5% |
| DODSON, CHRISTINA MARIE | 1 | 97.3% | +3.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35522690 | Table lamp | DODSON, CHRISTINA MARIE | 53d overdue |
| 35526993 | Ceiling light | SANTOS, MELISSA ADRIANE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2934 | 1 |
| 2933 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35526993 | Ceiling light | SANTOS, MELISSA ADRIANE | 2934 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2025 |
| 35522690 | Table lamp | DODSON, CHRISTINA MARIE | 2933 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 53d overdue | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialFlos S.p.A. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Melissa Adriane Santos has the most, with 1 of Flos S.p.A.'s pending office actions.
