Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Metso Finland OY

7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due later (2)

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 (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (86%)
§102 only1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
29% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
71% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DEVINE, MOLLY K 2 67.4% +32.2%
DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS 1
KATCOFF, MATTHEW GORDON 1 69.3% +15.7%
BAPTHELUS, SMITH OBERTO 1 66.9% +41.5%
KEYWORTH, PETER 1 58.0% +23.7%
MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE 1 59.3% +15.7%

Interview Candidates (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18576840 MANTLE FOR A GYRATORY OR CONE CRUSHER BAPTHELUS, SMITH OBERTO 60d overdue
19113679 ELECTRIC VIBRATION MACHINERY FOR MINERAL MATERIAL PROCESSING DEVICE DEVINE, MOLLY K 19d overdue
18693066 WEAR PLATE KATCOFF, MATTHEW GORDON 16d overdue
17793548 A FILTER PLATE FRAME ASSEMBLY AND A HORIZONTAL FILTER PRESS, SUCH AS A TOWER PRESS, HAVING SUCH A PLATE FRAME ASSEMBLY MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE 19d
18352385 GUIDING ARRANGEMENT, FLOTATION CELL AND FLOTATION METHOD KEYWORTH, PETER 76d
18556991 DIVIDING HOPPER AND TRANSPORTABLE SCREENING APPARATUS DEVINE, MOLLY K 85d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3725 3
3653 2
1777 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19113679 ELECTRIC VIBRATION MACHINERY FOR MINERAL MATERIAL PROCESSING DEVICE DEVINE, MOLLY K 3653 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Mar 20, 2025
18659448 SHELL LINER FOR A STIRRED GRINDING MILL DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS 3725 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending May 09, 2024
18693066 WEAR PLATE KATCOFF, MATTHEW GORDON 3725 §102 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Mar 18, 2024
18576840 MANTLE FOR A GYRATORY OR CONE CRUSHER BAPTHELUS, SMITH OBERTO 3725 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2024
18556991 DIVIDING HOPPER AND TRANSPORTABLE SCREENING APPARATUS DEVINE, MOLLY K 3653 §103 Final Rejection 85d Pending Oct 24, 2023
18352385 GUIDING ARRANGEMENT, FLOTATION CELL AND FLOTATION METHOD KEYWORTH, PETER 1777 §103 Final Rejection 76d Pending Jul 14, 2023
17793548 A FILTER PLATE FRAME ASSEMBLY AND A HORIZONTAL FILTER PRESS, SUCH AS A TOWER PRESS, HAVING SUCH A PLATE FRAME ASSEMBLY MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE 1777 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Jul 18, 2022

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