Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 48 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fiskars Finland Oy AB has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The portfolio involves 5 examiners across 2 art units, showing that examiner assignments are more dispersed than art-unit assignments. This structure creates a meaningful distinction between examiner-specific prosecution and shared technical examination settings.
NGUYEN, PHONG H is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Those matters may support a coordinated review of recurring positions before that examiner, while the remaining matters require attention to their separate examiner assignments. The art-unit concentration also supports checking whether related claim language is receiving consistent treatment across the portfolio.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, PHONG H | 2 | 70.8% | +20.6% |
| MICHALSKI, SEAN M | 1 | 53.4% | +12.8% |
| WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 1 | 34.5% | +79.2% |
| CLERKLEY, DANIELLE A | 1 | 52.3% | +46.4% |
| PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | 1 | 74.0% | +29.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17987278 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A KNIFE BLADE AND KNIFE BLADE | PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | 26d |
| 18946314 | CORD REEL ASSEMBLY | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | — |
| 18328638 | PLANTING MAT | CLERKLEY, DANIELLE A | — |
| 18107698 | ADJUSTABLE SEPARATION SHEERS | NGUYEN, PHONG H | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17987278 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A KNIFE BLADE AND KNIFE BLADE | PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | 26d |
| 18957203 | KNIFE | MICHALSKI, SEAN M | — |
| 18946314 | CORD REEL ASSEMBLY | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | — |
| 18328638 | PLANTING MAT | CLERKLEY, DANIELLE A | — |
| 18115841 | TREE PRUNER | NGUYEN, PHONG H | — |
| 18107698 | ADJUSTABLE SEPARATION SHEERS | NGUYEN, PHONG H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 5 |
| 3643 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18957203 | KNIFE | MICHALSKI, SEAN M | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18946314 | CORD REEL ASSEMBLY | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 3724 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18328638 | PLANTING MAT | CLERKLEY, DANIELLE A | 3643 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
| 18115841 | TREE PRUNER | NGUYEN, PHONG H | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
| 18107698 | ADJUSTABLE SEPARATION SHEERS | NGUYEN, PHONG H | 3724 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2023 |
| 17987278 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A KNIFE BLADE AND KNIFE BLADE | PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Nov 15, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialFiskars Finland Oy AB has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 5 examiners.
Phong H Nguyen has the most, with 2 of Fiskars Finland Oy AB's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
