Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Perfetti Van Melle Benelux B V has a patent portfolio focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There is 1 pending office action currently active, which is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. This examiner, LACHICA, ERICSON M, holds the 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The portfolio's activity is restricted to 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a specialized focus within the Chemistry & Materials field. For practitioners, the presence of 1 pending office action means that the current prosecution effort is highly centralized. All interactions are directed toward LACHICA, ERICSON M, allowing for a consistent and focused communication strategy.
The 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's current innovations are being evaluated by a specialized group of examiners. This limited scope of 1 pending office action simplifies the management of the company's intellectual property assets at this time. The alignment between the 1 distinct examiner and the 1 distinct art unit suggests a streamlined administrative path for these filings.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LACHICA, ERICSON M | 1 | 29.8% | +35.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17785412 | CONFECTIONERY PRODUCT WITH REDUCED AMOUNT OF SUGAR AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS THEREOF | LACHICA, ERICSON M | 60d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17785412 | CONFECTIONERY PRODUCT WITH REDUCED AMOUNT OF SUGAR AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS THEREOF | LACHICA, ERICSON M | 60d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17785412 | CONFECTIONERY PRODUCT WITH REDUCED AMOUNT OF SUGAR AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS THEREOF | LACHICA, ERICSON M | 1792 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Jun 15, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialPerfetti Van Melle Benelux B V has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ericson M Lachica has the most, with 1 of Perfetti Van Melle Benelux B V's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
