Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Metsä Spring OY currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual in a different administrative group at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there are 2 distinct examiners for the 2 pending actions, the workload is evenly divided. This decentralized arrangement means that the company must navigate two separate examination styles simultaneously.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's applications in the Chemistry & Materials sector are technically diverse enough to require different specialized reviews. Practitioners should prepare for varied feedback, as the 2 distinct examiners operate in different art units. The current prosecution landscape for the 2 pending office actions is characterized by a lack of concentration under any single individual or group.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1 | 63.6% | +34.4% |
| LAN, YAN | 1 | 63.1% | +21.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18699899 | A product, uses of the same, and a method | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 2d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18699899 | A product, uses of the same, and a method | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 2d overdue |
| 18566105 | An ovenable moulded multi-layered fibrous product and use thereof | LAN, YAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1748 | 1 |
| 1782 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18699899 | A product, uses of the same, and a method | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1748 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18566105 | An ovenable moulded multi-layered fibrous product and use thereof | LAN, YAN | 1782 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
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