Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Metso Sweden AB has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, representing a focused point of interaction with the patent office. The concentration of the current workload in 1 distinct art unit suggests a specific mechanical or medical focus for the pending application. For the practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy can be highly specialized for this single administrative channel.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This individual examiner is currently managing the entirety of the company's pending office action volume. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the prosecution outcome for this portion of the portfolio depends entirely on the interactions within this single art unit and with this specific examiner. Success in this matter will require a precise understanding of the examiner's past actions and the specific technical standards of the 1 distinct art unit involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 1 | 58.6% | +59.2% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18213336 | HANDLING TOOL FOR USE IN HEAVY DUTY MACHINERY FOR FASTENING A LINING ELEMENT TO A SURFACE OF A BODY STEEL PLATE | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 25d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18213336 | HANDLING TOOL FOR USE IN HEAVY DUTY MACHINERY FOR FASTENING A LINING ELEMENT TO A SURFACE OF A BODY STEEL PLATE | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 3723 | §102 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
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