1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions GmbH & Co. Kg currently has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This broad distribution suggests that the company's innovations in coffee solutions involve a variety of chemical and material science disciplines. The involvement of 3 distinct art units indicates that the applications cover diverse technical aspects of the company's products, requiring a multifaceted prosecution strategy.
KASZTEJNA, MATTHEW JOHN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. With 3 distinct examiners each managing a portion of the 3 pending office actions, the workload is spread across the individuals involved. This means that no single examiner has a dominant role in the current prosecution landscape. Each of the pending office actions will be subject to the specific scrutiny of a different examiner, which may lead to varying outcomes across the portfolio.
For a practitioner, managing 3 pending office actions across 3 distinct art units requires a versatile approach to different examination standards. Since KASZTEJNA, MATTHEW JOHN only holds 1 pending action, the prosecution strategy must be highly individualized for each case. This variety requires careful attention to the specific requirements of each art unit and examiner. The lack of concentration in a single art unit means that the company's intellectual property is subject to a wide array of patent office policies.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KASZTEJNA, MATTHEW JOHN | 1 | 64.5% | +13.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18273056 | BEVERAGE PREPARATION DEVICE AND BEVERAGE MACHINE | KASZTEJNA, MATTHEW JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3993 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18273056 | BEVERAGE PREPARATION DEVICE AND BEVERAGE MACHINE | KASZTEJNA, MATTHEW JOHN | 3993 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMelitta Professional Coffee Solutions GmbH & Co. Kg has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Matthew John Kasztejna has the most, with 1 of Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions GmbH & Co. Kg's pending office actions.
