Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

ZOBELE HOLDING S.P.A.

8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

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%)
7
Medium (88%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (62%)
§102 only2 (25%)
No statute on record1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
75% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
25% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C 2 60.1% +17.2%
ANTHONY, JOSEPH DAVID 1 73.3% +4.0%
GREGORIO, GUINEVER S 1 72.8% +18.8%
HENSEL, BRENDAN A 1 66.9% +29.7%
PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN 1 68.2% +35.1%
ZHOU, QINGZHANG 1 67.5% +24.4%
PARK, HAEJIN S 1 55.3% +37.9%

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18270003 SUBSTRATE FOR DIFFUSING VOLATILE SUBSTANCES GREGORIO, GUINEVER S 59d overdue
17276977 VOLATILE SUBSTANCE EVAPORATION DEVICE CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C 42d overdue
17786401 DEVICE FOR DIFFUSING VOLATILE SUBSTANCES CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C 29d overdue
17789261 DEVICE FOR THE DIFFUSION OF VOLATILE SUBSTANCES PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN 24d overdue
17417179 DIFFUSER OF VOLATILE SUBSTANCES BY COMBUSTION PARK, HAEJIN S 24d overdue
17767817 DEVICE FOR DIFFUSING VOLATILE SUBSTANCES ZHOU, QINGZHANG 5d
18267999 DEVICE FOR DIFFUSING VOLATILE SUBSTANCES HENSEL, BRENDAN A 27d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3752 2
1774 2
1764 1
1732 1
1758 1
1614 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18270177 SUBSTRATE FOR DIFFUSING VOLATILE SUBSTANCES ANTHONY, JOSEPH DAVID 1764 Other Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2023
18270003 SUBSTRATE FOR DIFFUSING VOLATILE SUBSTANCES GREGORIO, GUINEVER S 1732 §102 Non-Final OA 59d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2023
18267999 DEVICE FOR DIFFUSING VOLATILE SUBSTANCES HENSEL, BRENDAN A 1758 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jun 16, 2023
17789261 DEVICE FOR THE DIFFUSION OF VOLATILE SUBSTANCES PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN 3752 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Jun 27, 2022
17786401 DEVICE FOR DIFFUSING VOLATILE SUBSTANCES CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C 1774 §103 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2022
17767817 DEVICE FOR DIFFUSING VOLATILE SUBSTANCES ZHOU, QINGZHANG 3752 §102 Final Rejection 5d Pending Apr 08, 2022
17417179 DIFFUSER OF VOLATILE SUBSTANCES BY COMBUSTION PARK, HAEJIN S 1614 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Jun 22, 2021
17276977 VOLATILE SUBSTANCE EVAPORATION DEVICE CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C 1774 §103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2021

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