Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
La Marzocco S R L is currently navigating the patent process within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio shows 1 pending office action, representing the current workload for the company's legal representatives. This specific action indicates a focused prosecution phase for the company's intellectual property assets in this domain.
The prosecution is highly centralized, involving 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner. This concentration means that the company's current success in the Chemistry & Materials sector is tied to a specific point of evaluation within the patent office. Practitioners should note that this lack of variety in examiners simplifies the tracking of prosecution trends for this entity.
AXTELL, ASHLEY is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since this individual is the 1 examiner listed, their approach will dictate the immediate trajectory of the company's patenting efforts. The alignment of AXTELL, ASHLEY with the busiest examiner pending count of 1 confirms the singular focus of the current prosecution cycle.
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) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | 1 | 42.6% | +48.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17769256 | STEAM WAND AND METHOD FOR FROTHING MILK | TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17769256 | STEAM WAND AND METHOD FOR FROTHING MILK | TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17769256 | STEAM WAND AND METHOD FOR FROTHING MILK | TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | 3761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2022 |
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