Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Metsä Spring OY manages 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This filing is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, LAN, YAN, who is the busiest examiner for the company patent portfolio. The active matter is located within a single distinct art unit.
The prosecution for this portfolio is highly focused, as the pending office action is reviewed by an individual examiner. This centralization simplifies the administrative oversight of the application. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the assigned art unit and the preferences of LAN, YAN to advance the pending matter.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAN, YAN | 1 | 63.1% | +22.0% |
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.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1782 | 1 |
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Start Free TrialMetsä Spring OY has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Yan Lan has the most, with 1 of Metsä Spring OY's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
