Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V.

7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

3
Hard (43%)
4
Medium (57%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (57%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (43%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

3
Life Sciences
43% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
57% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LI, CHANGQING 1 29.6% +33.1%
RHUE, ABIGAIL H 1 54.1% +38.8%
KIM, BRYAN 1 28.5% +36.9%
SMITH, CHAIM A 1 39.5% +51.8%
NGUYEN, PHUONG T 1 73.6% +37.1%
COLLINS, RAVEN 1 62.4% +10.4%
KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH 1 48.7% +12.0%

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18269251 METHOD OF ROASTING COFFEE BEANS KIM, BRYAN 30d overdue
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

Interview Candidates (7)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18269251 METHOD OF ROASTING COFFEE BEANS KIM, BRYAN 30d overdue
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
18266577 BEVERAGE PAD SMITH, CHAIM A
18011815 NOZZLE AND BEVERAGE PREPARATION MACHINE NGUYEN, PHUONG T
17789134 PACKAGING COLLINS, RAVEN
16965946 CONTAINER LID AND LINER, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1791 2
3761 2
3735 2
1792 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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
18266577 BEVERAGE PAD SMITH, CHAIM A 1791 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 09, 2023
18011815 NOZZLE AND BEVERAGE PREPARATION MACHINE NGUYEN, PHUONG T 3761 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 20, 2022
17789134 PACKAGING COLLINS, RAVEN 3735 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 24, 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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