Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. currently manages 10 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are spread across 5 distinct art units, reflecting a portfolio with technical breadth. The prosecution involves 10 distinct examiners, which suggests that the company must navigate a range of individual examiner styles and interpretations. This examiner count means that the pending actions are being reviewed by different people, preventing any single examiner relationship from dominating the portfolio's outcome.
LEFF, STEVEN N is identified as the busiest examiner, though he is currently responsible for 1 pending action. This distribution across 5 distinct art units requires an adaptable prosecution strategy, as the company must address different sets of examiner feedback. The presence of separate examiners for the 10 pending office actions ensures that the progress of each application is independent of the others. With 10 distinct examiners involved, the company must coordinate a high volume of responses across its 5 distinct art units.
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 | 3 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEFF, STEVEN N | 1 | 41.3% | +7.9% |
| RAIMUND, CHRISTOPHER W | 1 | 72.4% | +24.0% |
| STULII, VERA | 1 | 32.8% | +24.8% |
| LI, CHANGQING | 1 | 29.3% | +33.6% |
| RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 1 | 53.6% | +38.7% |
| KIM, BRYAN | 1 | 28.4% | +36.8% |
| NGUYEN, PHUONG T | 1 | 73.8% | +37.0% |
| SWEENEY, MAURA ELIZABETH | 1 | 5.4% | -6.8% |
| KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | 1 | 48.9% | +11.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18269251 | METHOD OF ROASTING COFFEE BEANS | KIM, BRYAN | 30d overdue |
| 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 | — |
| 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 | — |
| 18011815 | NOZZLE AND BEVERAGE PREPARATION MACHINE | NGUYEN, PHUONG T | — |
| 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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18269251 | METHOD OF ROASTING COFFEE BEANS | KIM, BRYAN | 30d overdue |
| 18697394 | IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO BEVERAGE CAPSULES | RAIMUND, CHRISTOPHER W | 47d |
| 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 | — |
| 18011815 | NOZZLE AND BEVERAGE PREPARATION MACHINE | NGUYEN, PHUONG T | — |
| 16965946 | CONTAINER LID AND LINER, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 3 |
| 1792 | 2 |
| 3761 | 2 |
| 1746 | 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 |
| 18694386 | A NON-FAT CREAMER POWDER, AND A METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | STULII, VERA | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 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 |
| 18269251 | METHOD OF ROASTING COFFEE BEANS | KIM, BRYAN | 1792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18011815 | NOZZLE AND BEVERAGE PREPARATION MACHINE | NGUYEN, PHUONG T | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2022 |
| 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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