Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Outokumpu Oyj is currently managing a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area, which features 3 pending office actions. This volume of 3 pending office actions suggests a moderate level of current prosecution activity. The company's focus within Chemistry & Materials is being tested through these three separate interactions with the patent office, indicating a diversified approach to its intellectual property filings.
The prosecution of these matters is handled by 3 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. This 1 to 1 to 1 ratio between the 3 pending office actions, the 3 distinct examiners, and the 3 distinct art units shows a complete lack of overlap in the review process. Each action is being evaluated by a different person in a different specialized unit, which may lead to varied prosecution experiences across the portfolio.
SU, XIAOWEI is listed as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 3 and there are 3 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for exactly 1 action. This distribution ensures that the workload is evenly split, with SU, XIAOWEI and the other two examiners each managing a single component of the company's active patent applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SU, XIAOWEI | 1 | 71.7% | +12.8% |
| HILL, STEPHANI A | 1 | 29.4% | +44.2% |
| HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 1 | 69.5% | +49.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18247822 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING STAINLESS STEEL | HILL, STEPHANI A | 3d overdue |
| 18035878 | Austenitic Stainless Steel | SU, XIAOWEI | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18247822 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING STAINLESS STEEL | HILL, STEPHANI A | 3d overdue |
| 18035878 | Austenitic Stainless Steel | SU, XIAOWEI | — |
| 16962355 | BEND-FORMED LOAD-BEARING STRUCTURE OF A PASSENGER CAR | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18035878 | Austenitic Stainless Steel | SU, XIAOWEI | 1733 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
| 18247822 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING STAINLESS STEEL | HILL, STEPHANI A | 1735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 04, 2023 |
| 16962355 | BEND-FORMED LOAD-BEARING STRUCTURE OF A PASSENGER CAR | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 3726 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2020 |
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