Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Summa Finland Oy is navigating 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are split among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. ROBINSON, KYLE G is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, reflecting a balanced distribution of the current workload. This lack of examiner concentration means that the company's prosecution results are subject to the individual discretion of three different officials.
The 3 distinct art units involved suggest that the company's mechanical innovations are being reviewed by different specialized groups. This variety requires a case-by-case approach to prosecution rather than a single unified strategy. With 3 distinct examiners involved, practitioners should expect to navigate three different examination styles across the 3 distinct art units. This distribution helps mitigate the risk that a single examiner's negative trend could impact the entire pending portfolio.
Because ROBINSON, KYLE G and the other distinct examiners each have only 1 pending office action, the workload is evenly spread. This balance is a key feature of the company's current prosecution profile in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. The presence of 3 distinct art units indicates that the technology being prosecuted is diverse enough to be routed to different technical groups at the USPTO.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBINSON, KYLE G | 1 | 11.7% | +16.6% |
| JOHNSON, NICOLE F | 1 | 87.4% | +7.3% |
| GORDON, BRIAN R | 1 | 65.3% | +19.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18966773 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECOVERY ESTIMATION | ROBINSON, KYLE G | — |
| 18948607 | METHOD FOR PLANNING LOAD VALUES FOR A TARGET HORMONAL RESPONSE | JOHNSON, NICOLE F | — |
| 18486235 | APPARATUS, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING, SENSING AND ANALYZING SAMPLE FLUID | GORDON, BRIAN R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18966773 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECOVERY ESTIMATION | ROBINSON, KYLE G | — |
| 18486235 | APPARATUS, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING, SENSING AND ANALYZING SAMPLE FLUID | GORDON, BRIAN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3685 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18966773 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECOVERY ESTIMATION | ROBINSON, KYLE G | 3685 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18948607 | METHOD FOR PLANNING LOAD VALUES FOR A TARGET HORMONAL RESPONSE | JOHNSON, NICOLE F | 3796 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18486235 | APPARATUS, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING, SENSING AND ANALYZING SAMPLE FLUID | GORDON, BRIAN R | 1798 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSumma Finland Oy has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Kyle G Robinson has the most, with 1 of Summa Finland Oy's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
