Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Swiss Coffee Innovation AG is currently managing 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's innovations touch upon several different technical classifications. The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners, providing a moderate level of variety in the examination process. This distribution across art units allows the company to test different claim strategies in the Chemistry & Materials field.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LACHICA, ERICSON M, who is handling 2 pending office actions. This means that a portion of the company's 4 pending office actions is concentrated with a single examiner, while the other actions are split between the remaining examiners. Practitioners should monitor the outcomes from LACHICA, ERICSON M closely, as those 2 pending office actions will significantly influence the overall success rate of the current portfolio. The involvement of 3 distinct examiners allows for some comparative analysis of how different parts of the office are receiving the company's technical disclosures.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 | 2 | 30.0% | +35.4% |
| LI, CHANGQING | 1 | 29.3% | +33.6% |
| WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1 | 51.5% | +50.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18173367 | CAPSULE CONTAINING BEVERAGE POWDER, IN PARTICULAR FOR PREPARING BREWED COFFEE | LI, CHANGQING | 42d overdue |
| 17608613 | CAPSULE CONTAINING MATERIAL SUCH AS BEVERAGE POWDER, IN PARTICULAR FOR PREPARING BREWED COFFEE | LACHICA, ERICSON M | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18173367 | CAPSULE CONTAINING BEVERAGE POWDER, IN PARTICULAR FOR PREPARING BREWED COFFEE | LI, CHANGQING | 42d overdue |
| 18961437 | CAPSULE CONTAINING BEVERAGE POWDER, IN PARTICULAR FORPREPARING BREWED COFFEE | LACHICA, ERICSON M | — |
| 17919817 | METHOD FOR COATING A COMPACTED POWDER CAKE, IN PARTICULAR FOR PRODUCING A CAPSULE CONTAINING BEVERAGE POWDER | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | — |
| 17608613 | CAPSULE CONTAINING MATERIAL SUCH AS BEVERAGE POWDER, IN PARTICULAR FOR PREPARING BREWED COFFEE | LACHICA, ERICSON M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18961437 | CAPSULE CONTAINING BEVERAGE POWDER, IN PARTICULAR FORPREPARING BREWED COFFEE | LACHICA, ERICSON M | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18173367 | CAPSULE CONTAINING BEVERAGE POWDER, IN PARTICULAR FOR PREPARING BREWED COFFEE | LI, CHANGQING | 1791 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Feb 23, 2023 |
| 17919817 | METHOD FOR COATING A COMPACTED POWDER CAKE, IN PARTICULAR FOR PRODUCING A CAPSULE CONTAINING BEVERAGE POWDER | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1717 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2022 |
| 17608613 | CAPSULE CONTAINING MATERIAL SUCH AS BEVERAGE POWDER, IN PARTICULAR FOR PREPARING BREWED COFFEE | LACHICA, ERICSON M | 1792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2021 |
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