Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Franke Kaffeemaschinen AG has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that each pending matter has a separate examiner and art-unit assignment.
DARDENNE, DARRYL JACQUES is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The profile does not show concentration with one examiner. Prosecution planning is therefore best handled at the individual application level, with attention to the separate examination settings.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DARDENNE, DARRYL JACQUES | 1 | 96.8% | +3.4% |
| ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 1 | 71.3% | +27.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35527060 | Automatic coffee machine for commercial purposes | DARDENNE, DARRYL JACQUES | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18555315 | DEVICE FOR PREPARING A COFFEE BEVERAGE | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18555315 | DEVICE FOR PREPARING A COFFEE BEVERAGE | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2951 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35527060 | Automatic coffee machine for commercial purposes | DARDENNE, DARRYL JACQUES | 2951 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2025 |
| 18555315 | DEVICE FOR PREPARING A COFFEE BEVERAGE | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialFranke Kaffeemaschinen AG has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Darryl Jacques Dardenne has the most, with 1 of Franke Kaffeemaschinen AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
