Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
LAVAZZA maintains a company patent portfolio focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently includes 4 pending office actions. This level of activity reflects a consistent effort to protect chemical compositions or material innovations related to the company's products.
The prosecution landscape involves 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. While there are 4 different examiners, the fact that they are grouped into 3 distinct art units suggests some thematic overlap in the technology being patented. The presence of 4 distinct examiners for 4 pending office actions means that every active case is being evaluated by a different person, requiring a broad strategy to address various examiner perspectives.
O'HERN, BRENT T is identified as the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since each of the 4 distinct examiners is responsible for 1 of the 4 total pending office actions, the workload is evenly spread. No single examiner dominates the portfolio's current trajectory. Practitioners must manage these 4 pending office actions by addressing the specific technical requirements of the 3 distinct art units and the individual styles of the 4 examiners involved.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KRASNOW, NICHOLAS R | 1 | 66.4% | +12.9% |
| RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 1 | 53.3% | +37.5% |
| HATTEN, DANIEL WARD | 1 | 74.2% | +37.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550872 | CAPSULE-HOLDER DEVICE FOR BEVERAGE PREPARATION MACHINES | KRASNOW, NICHOLAS R | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550872 | CAPSULE-HOLDER DEVICE FOR BEVERAGE PREPARATION MACHINES | KRASNOW, NICHOLAS R | — |
| 18202225 | BEVERAGE BREWING SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | — |
| 17608277 | SMART BEVERAGE PREPARATION MACHINE AND METHOD | HATTEN, DANIEL WARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 2 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18550872 | CAPSULE-HOLDER DEVICE FOR BEVERAGE PREPARATION MACHINES | KRASNOW, NICHOLAS R | 1744 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18202225 | BEVERAGE BREWING SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 17608277 | SMART BEVERAGE PREPARATION MACHINE AND METHOD | HATTEN, DANIEL WARD | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialLAVAZZA has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Nicholas R Krasnow has the most, with 1 of LAVAZZA's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
