Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Oerlikon Metco (Us) Inc.

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (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%)
6
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
67% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
17% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
17% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SHAMS, NAZMUN NAHAR 1 79.9% +18.4%
WIESE, NOAH S 1 83.2% -2.6%
AHVAZI, BIJAN 1 63.5% +46.7%
CARPENTER, JOSHUA S 1 50.4% +39.2%
CAMPBELL, THOR S 1 74.9% +0.9%
SATHIRAJU, SRINIVAS 1 88.8% +5.8%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18260100 COMPLEX OXIDE THERMAL BARRIER COATINGS WITH LOW THERMAL INERTIA AND LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY WIESE, NOAH S 37d overdue
16970086 SINGLE ARC CASCADED LOW PRESSURE COATING GUN UTILIZING A NEUTRODE STACK AS A METHOD OF PLASMA ARC CONTROL SATHIRAJU, SRINIVAS 28d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18027533 ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE FILLERS WITH IMPROVED CORROSION RESISTANCE AHVAZI, BIJAN 113d overdue
17641941 LOW MELTING IRON BASED BRAZE FILLER METALS FOR HEAT EXCHANGER APPLICATIONS CARPENTER, JOSHUA S 7d
18550446 COPPER-BASED ALLOY AND METAL MATRIX COMPOSITE FORMED USING SAME SHAMS, NAZMUN NAHAR 12d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1738 1
1731 1
1763 1
1733 1
3761 1
2844 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18550446 COPPER-BASED ALLOY AND METAL MATRIX COMPOSITE FORMED USING SAME SHAMS, NAZMUN NAHAR 1738 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Sep 13, 2023
18260100 COMPLEX OXIDE THERMAL BARRIER COATINGS WITH LOW THERMAL INERTIA AND LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY WIESE, NOAH S 1731 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2023
18027533 ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE FILLERS WITH IMPROVED CORROSION RESISTANCE AHVAZI, BIJAN 1763 §103 Non-Final OA 113d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2023
17641941 LOW MELTING IRON BASED BRAZE FILLER METALS FOR HEAT EXCHANGER APPLICATIONS CARPENTER, JOSHUA S 1733 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Mar 10, 2022
17298406 ELECTRODE FOR PLASMA A GUN CAMPBELL, THOR S 3761 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending May 28, 2021
16970086 SINGLE ARC CASCADED LOW PRESSURE COATING GUN UTILIZING A NEUTRODE STACK AS A METHOD OF PLASMA ARC CONTROL SATHIRAJU, SRINIVAS 2844 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Aug 14, 2020

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