Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Novadelta-Comércio E Indústria De Cafés S A Lda has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matter is assigned to 1 examiner and 1 art unit, creating a single prosecution path.
WARD, THOMAS JOHN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can focus on the application’s individual examination record and align technical and claim responses with that examiner’s treatment.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 1 | 52.1% | +25.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18285932 | SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES INCLUDING CARTRIDGES OF SINGLE PORTIONS OF EDIBLE SUBSTANCE | WARD, THOMAS JOHN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18285932 | SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES INCLUDING CARTRIDGES OF SINGLE PORTIONS OF EDIBLE SUBSTANCE | WARD, THOMAS JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18285932 | SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES INCLUDING CARTRIDGES OF SINGLE PORTIONS OF EDIBLE SUBSTANCE | WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 3761 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNovadelta-Comércio E Indústria De Cafés S A Lda has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Thomas John Ward has the most, with 1 of Novadelta-Comércio E Indústria De Cafés S A Lda's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
