Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Metso Outotec Finland OY has 5 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are distributed across 5 examiners and 5 art units, indicating separate examiner and art-unit assignments for each pending matter.
HARP, WILLIAM RAY is the busiest examiner with 1 pending matter. The profile shows no examiner concentration, so counsel can focus on individual actions and the practice of each assigned unit.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARP, WILLIAM RAY | 1 | 79.1% | +10.8% |
| BULLOCK, IN SUK C | 1 | 51.2% | +28.3% |
| COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1 | 79.0% | +15.3% |
| NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI | 1 | 23.4% | +30.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18249859 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRESSURE FILTER | BULLOCK, IN SUK C | — |
| 17627933 | FLOTATION CELL | NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17919821 | MIXING ARRANGEMENT, MIXER SETTLER UNIT AND USE | COOLEY, CHARLES E | 61d |
| 19036893 | CHUTE LINER | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | — |
| 18249859 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRESSURE FILTER | BULLOCK, IN SUK C | — |
| 17627933 | FLOTATION CELL | NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3653 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19036893 | CHUTE LINER | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | 3653 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18249859 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRESSURE FILTER | BULLOCK, IN SUK C | 1772 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
| 17919821 | MIXING ARRANGEMENT, MIXER SETTLER UNIT AND USE | COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Oct 19, 2022 |
| 17627933 | FLOTATION CELL | NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI | 1779 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMetso Outotec Finland OY has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
William Ray Harp has the most, with 1 of Metso Outotec Finland OY's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
