Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 5 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. has 11 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The portfolio spans 10 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, showing broad examiner distribution and concentration across a smaller set of technical examination groups. This structure supports centralized docket oversight, but it also calls for file-level tracking of objections and response positions.
KIM, BRYAN is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That examiner-specific concentration provides a practical point for identifying recurring issues, while the remaining workload is distributed among other examiners. Counsel should coordinate claim language and technical explanations across related matters, but avoid assuming that one response approach will transfer unchanged across the separate art-unit assignments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (27%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (64%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, BRYAN | 2 | 28.2% | +36.6% |
| LEFF, STEVEN N | 1 | 41.4% | +8.4% |
| RAIMUND, CHRISTOPHER W | 1 | 72.7% | +23.7% |
| TRAN, THIEN S | 1 | 71.9% | +24.0% |
| STULII, VERA | 1 | 32.7% | +24.9% |
| ZILBERING, ASSAF | 1 | 35.3% | +27.6% |
| LI, CHANGQING | 1 | 29.2% | +33.1% |
| RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 1 | 53.3% | +37.5% |
| SWEENEY, MAURA ELIZABETH | 1 | 7.0% | -8.9% |
| KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | 1 | 49.4% | +11.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18269251 | METHOD OF ROASTING COFFEE BEANS | KIM, BRYAN | 30d overdue |
| 18269170 | METHOD OF ROASTING COFFEE BEANS | KIM, BRYAN | 34d |
| 18697394 | IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO BEVERAGE CAPSULES | RAIMUND, CHRISTOPHER W | 47d |
| 18725088 | A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE PREPARATION OF A BEVERAGE | LEFF, STEVEN N | — |
| 18694394 | A MIXING APPARATUS FOR A DRINK DISPENSING MACHINE | TRAN, THIEN S | — |
| 18288788 | Aromatising Food And Beverages | LI, CHANGQING | — |
| 18234848 | CAPSULE, A SYSTEM FOR PREPARING A POTABLE BEVERAGE FROM SUCH A CAPSULE AND USE OF SUCH A CAPSULE IN A BEVERAGE PREPARATION DEVICE | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | — |
| 17787551 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING BEVERAGE INGREDIENTS | SWEENEY, MAURA ELIZABETH | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18269251 | METHOD OF ROASTING COFFEE BEANS | KIM, BRYAN | 30d overdue |
| 18572716 | NON-DAIRY CREAMER COMPOSITION | ZILBERING, ASSAF | 9d |
| 18269170 | METHOD OF ROASTING COFFEE BEANS | KIM, BRYAN | 34d |
| 18697394 | IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO BEVERAGE CAPSULES | RAIMUND, CHRISTOPHER W | 47d |
| 18694394 | A MIXING APPARATUS FOR A DRINK DISPENSING MACHINE | TRAN, THIEN S | — |
| 18694386 | A NON-FAT CREAMER POWDER, AND A METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | STULII, VERA | — |
| 18288788 | Aromatising Food And Beverages | LI, CHANGQING | — |
| 18234848 | CAPSULE, A SYSTEM FOR PREPARING A POTABLE BEVERAGE FROM SUCH A CAPSULE AND USE OF SUCH A CAPSULE IN A BEVERAGE PREPARATION DEVICE | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 4 |
| 1791 | 3 |
| 1746 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18725088 | A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE PREPARATION OF A BEVERAGE | LEFF, STEVEN N | 1792 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18697394 | IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO BEVERAGE CAPSULES | RAIMUND, CHRISTOPHER W | 1746 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 47d | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18694394 | A MIXING APPARATUS FOR A DRINK DISPENSING MACHINE | TRAN, THIEN S | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18694386 | A NON-FAT CREAMER POWDER, AND A METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | STULII, VERA | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18572716 | NON-DAIRY CREAMER COMPOSITION | ZILBERING, ASSAF | 1792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18288788 | Aromatising Food And Beverages | LI, CHANGQING | 1791 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 18234848 | CAPSULE, A SYSTEM FOR PREPARING A POTABLE BEVERAGE FROM SUCH A CAPSULE AND USE OF SUCH A CAPSULE IN A BEVERAGE PREPARATION DEVICE | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 18269170 | METHOD OF ROASTING COFFEE BEANS | KIM, BRYAN | 1792 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18269251 | METHOD OF ROASTING COFFEE BEANS | KIM, BRYAN | 1792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 17787551 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING BEVERAGE INGREDIENTS | SWEENEY, MAURA ELIZABETH | 1791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2022 |
| 16965946 | CONTAINER LID AND LINER, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | 3735 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialKoninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 10 examiners.
Bryan Kim has the most, with 2 of Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
