Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
LAVAZZA is currently overseeing 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 4 actions are being reviewed by 4 distinct examiners, meaning that no single examiner is handling more than one case for the company. The workload is distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's mechanical and medical innovations fall into two primary technical categories at the patent office.
The busiest examiner, O'HERN, BRENT T, is currently managing 1 pending office action, which is consistent with the even spread across the 4 distinct examiners. With a total of 4 pending office actions, the company must navigate 4 different examination styles. However, the presence of only 2 distinct art units means that there may be some technical overlap in the standards applied to these cases. Practitioners should be prepared to manage 4 separate prosecution tracks while looking for commonalities in the feedback from the 2 involved art units.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| O'HERN, BRENT T | 1 | 78.5% | +19.8% |
| THAKUR, VIREN A | 1 | 13.4% | +26.6% |
| RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 1 | 53.6% | +38.7% |
| HATTEN, DANIEL WARD | 1 | 72.4% | +36.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18795985 | BEVERAGE DISPENSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACTIVE PRESSURE CONTROL THEREOF | O'HERN, BRENT T | — |
| 18550670 | CARTRIDGE FOR THE PREPARATION OF LIQUID PRODUCTS | THAKUR, VIREN A | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18795985 | BEVERAGE DISPENSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACTIVE PRESSURE CONTROL THEREOF | O'HERN, BRENT T | — |
| 18550670 | CARTRIDGE FOR THE PREPARATION OF LIQUID PRODUCTS | THAKUR, VIREN A | — |
| 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 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18795985 | BEVERAGE DISPENSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACTIVE PRESSURE CONTROL THEREOF | O'HERN, BRENT T | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18550670 | CARTRIDGE FOR THE PREPARATION OF LIQUID PRODUCTS | THAKUR, VIREN A | 1792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 14, 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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