Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Outokumpu Oyj

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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%)
4
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
75% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
25% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SU, XIAOWEI 1 71.3% +12.7%
HILL, STEPHANI A 1 29.5% +44.3%
JOHNSON, JONATHAN J 1 33.0% -8.1%
HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE 1 69.2% +51.0%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18042891 AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL HILL, STEPHANI A 26d

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
18042891 AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL HILL, STEPHANI A 26d
18035878 Austenitic Stainless Steel SU, XIAOWEI
16962355 BEND-FORMED LOAD-BEARING STRUCTURE OF A PASSENGER CAR HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1733 1
1735 1
1734 1
3726 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18035878 Austenitic Stainless Steel SU, XIAOWEI 1733 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 08, 2023
18042891 AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL HILL, STEPHANI A 1735 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Feb 24, 2023
17309717 FERRITIC STAINLESS STEEL JOHNSON, JONATHAN J 1734 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 16, 2021
16962355 BEND-FORMED LOAD-BEARING STRUCTURE OF A PASSENGER CAR HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE 3726 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 15, 2020

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