Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Metso Finland OY

9 pending office actions • 4 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due later (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.

6
Hard (67%)
3
Medium (33%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (22%)
§102 only1 (11%)
Multi-statute (no §101)6 (67%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
33% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
33% of docket
3
Business / Other
33% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DEUBLE, MARK A 1 88.1% +8.3%
ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S 1 74.4% +23.6%
DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS 1 0.0% +0.0%
PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA 1 53.0% +12.3%
GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C 1 72.2% +37.9%
NORRIS, CLAIRE A 1 65.7% +28.1%
DEVINE, MOLLY K 1 67.1% +30.8%
NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI 1 24.2% +29.6%
HUANG, RYAN 1 52.4% +31.5%

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18659448 SHELL LINER FOR A STIRRED GRINDING MILL DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS 15d
18556991 DIVIDING HOPPER AND TRANSPORTABLE SCREENING APPARATUS DEVINE, MOLLY K 85d
19109431 CONVEYOR BELT SCRAPER BLADE AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME DEUBLE, MARK A
18699434 SHEARING DEVICE, ARRANGEMENT AND USE GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C
18556986 OXIDATION OF SULPHUR SPECIES NORRIS, CLAIRE A
18352375 SLURRY FEEDING ARRANGEMENT NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI

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
17795262 AN OUTLET COVER FOR A RECESSED PLATE-TYPE FILTER, A FILTER PLATE, A FILTER PLATE ASSEMBLY AND A RECESSED PLATE-TYPE FILTER HUANG, RYAN 2d overdue
18556991 DIVIDING HOPPER AND TRANSPORTABLE SCREENING APPARATUS DEVINE, MOLLY K 85d
18871716 A GEAR WELL FOR A CRUSHER AND A CRUSHER COMPRISING THE GEAR WELL ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S
18699957 Solution Circulations in a Process for Calcination and Leaching of a Lithium-Containing Mineral PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA
18699434 SHEARING DEVICE, ARRANGEMENT AND USE GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C
18556986 OXIDATION OF SULPHUR SPECIES NORRIS, CLAIRE A
18352375 SLURRY FEEDING ARRANGEMENT NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3725 2
1779 2
3653 1
1777 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19109431 CONVEYOR BELT SCRAPER BLADE AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME DEUBLE, MARK A §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 06, 2025
18871716 A GEAR WELL FOR A CRUSHER AND A CRUSHER COMPRISING THE GEAR WELL ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S 3725 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 04, 2024
18659448 SHELL LINER FOR A STIRRED GRINDING MILL DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS 3725 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 15d Pending May 09, 2024
18699957 Solution Circulations in a Process for Calcination and Leaching of a Lithium-Containing Mineral PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA §102 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 10, 2024
18699434 SHEARING DEVICE, ARRANGEMENT AND USE GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 08, 2024
18556986 OXIDATION OF SULPHUR SPECIES NORRIS, CLAIRE A 1779 §102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Oct 24, 2023
18556991 DIVIDING HOPPER AND TRANSPORTABLE SCREENING APPARATUS DEVINE, MOLLY K 3653 §103§112 Final Rejection 85d Pending Oct 24, 2023
18352375 SLURRY FEEDING ARRANGEMENT NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI 1779 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 14, 2023
17795262 AN OUTLET COVER FOR A RECESSED PLATE-TYPE FILTER, A FILTER PLATE, A FILTER PLATE ASSEMBLY AND A RECESSED PLATE-TYPE FILTER HUANG, RYAN 1777 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Jul 26, 2022

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