Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions GmbH & Co. Kg

2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

2
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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.

0
Hard (0%)
2
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
50% of docket
1
Information Tech
50% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

20 h
Manual time on pending OAs
4 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
7 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DIOU BERDECIA, LUIS EUGENIO 1 49.1% +13.5%
LINDSAY, BERNARD G 1 68.8% +46.6%

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17917053 METHOD FOR ADJUSTING THE GRIND SIZE OF A GRINDER, AND GRIND SIZE ADJUSTMENT ASSEMBLY OF A GRINDER LINDSAY, BERNARD G 84d overdue
18273096 METHOD FOR OPERATING A FULLY AUTOMATIC COFFEE MACHINE AND FULLY AUTOMATIC COFFEE MACHINE DIOU BERDECIA, LUIS EUGENIO 12d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1792 1
2119 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18273096 METHOD FOR OPERATING A FULLY AUTOMATIC COFFEE MACHINE AND FULLY AUTOMATIC COFFEE MACHINE DIOU BERDECIA, LUIS EUGENIO 1792 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jul 19, 2023
17917053 METHOD FOR ADJUSTING THE GRIND SIZE OF A GRINDER, AND GRIND SIZE ADJUSTMENT ASSEMBLY OF A GRINDER LINDSAY, BERNARD G 2119 §103 Non-Final OA 84d overdue Pending Oct 05, 2022

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