Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
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
Gea Mechanical Equipment Italia S P A has 2 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters are distributed among 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. Each action therefore has its own examiner and examination-group setting, which calls for coordinated portfolio terminology alongside matter-specific prosecution analysis.
NATH, SUMAN KUMAR is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The examiner handles one of the current actions, so the reported workload is not concentrated in one examiner. Counsel should compare the technical reasoning across the two art units without assuming that one response will resolve both examiner positions.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NATH, SUMAN KUMAR | 1 | 82.8% | +22.3% |
| COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1 | 79.0% | +15.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18694788 | A MEASURING APPARATUS FOR INLINE MEASURING THE HOMOGENIZING DEGREE OF A FLUID PRODUCT IN A DISPERSING UNIT | NATH, SUMAN KUMAR | — |
| 18710532 | A GUIDING DEVICE FOR GUIDING AN IMPACT HEAD AND A HOMOGENIZING VALVE COMPRISING SAID GUIDING DEVICE | COOLEY, CHARLES E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18694788 | A MEASURING APPARATUS FOR INLINE MEASURING THE HOMOGENIZING DEGREE OF A FLUID PRODUCT IN A DISPERSING UNIT | NATH, SUMAN KUMAR | — |
| 18710532 | A GUIDING DEVICE FOR GUIDING AN IMPACT HEAD AND A HOMOGENIZING VALVE COMPRISING SAID GUIDING DEVICE | COOLEY, CHARLES E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18694788 | A MEASURING APPARATUS FOR INLINE MEASURING THE HOMOGENIZING DEGREE OF A FLUID PRODUCT IN A DISPERSING UNIT | NATH, SUMAN KUMAR | 2855 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18710532 | A GUIDING DEVICE FOR GUIDING AN IMPACT HEAD AND A HOMOGENIZING VALVE COMPRISING SAID GUIDING DEVICE | COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialGea Mechanical Equipment Italia S P A has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Suman Kumar Nath has the most, with 1 of Gea Mechanical Equipment Italia S P A's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
