Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions GmbH & Co. Kg has 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are spread across 3 distinct art units. The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners. The busiest examiner is DIOU BERDECIA, LUIS EUGENIO, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. The data indicates that each of the 3 pending actions is being managed by a different examiner.
The distribution of 3 pending office actions across 3 art units suggests a diverse range of technical subject matter within the Chemistry & Materials sector. This decentralized structure requires the legal team to manage multiple examiner relationships simultaneously. The presence of DIOU BERDECIA, LUIS EUGENIO as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action shows that no single examiner dominates the current workload. This approach can mitigate the risk associated with any individual examiner's tendencies. Practitioners should ensure that arguments remain consistent across the 3 distinct art units to maintain a cohesive portfolio strategy. The focus on Chemistry & Materials remains the unifying factor across these separate prosecution efforts.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIOU BERDECIA, LUIS EUGENIO | 1 | 50.0% | +21.5% |
| KASZTEJNA, MATTHEW JOHN | 1 | 64.5% | +13.1% |
| DODSON, JUSTIN C | 1 | 46.8% | +35.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036671 | BREWING UNIT OF A PISTON COFFEE MACHINE, PISTON COFFEE MACHINE COMPRISING A BREWING UNIT AND METHOD FOR FILLING A BREWING UNIT | DODSON, JUSTIN C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18273096 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A FULLY AUTOMATIC COFFEE MACHINE AND FULLY AUTOMATIC COFFEE MACHINE | DIOU BERDECIA, LUIS EUGENIO | 12d |
| 18273056 | BEVERAGE PREPARATION DEVICE AND BEVERAGE MACHINE | KASZTEJNA, MATTHEW JOHN | — |
| 18036671 | BREWING UNIT OF A PISTON COFFEE MACHINE, PISTON COFFEE MACHINE COMPRISING A BREWING UNIT AND METHOD FOR FILLING A BREWING UNIT | DODSON, JUSTIN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| 3993 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18273096 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A FULLY AUTOMATIC COFFEE MACHINE AND FULLY AUTOMATIC COFFEE MACHINE | DIOU BERDECIA, LUIS EUGENIO | 1792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18273056 | BEVERAGE PREPARATION DEVICE AND BEVERAGE MACHINE | KASZTEJNA, MATTHEW JOHN | 3993 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18036671 | BREWING UNIT OF A PISTON COFFEE MACHINE, PISTON COFFEE MACHINE COMPRISING A BREWING UNIT AND METHOD FOR FILLING A BREWING UNIT | DODSON, JUSTIN C | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
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