Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
9 pending office actions • 9 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
UPM Corporation has 9 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters span 8 distinct examiners and 9 art units, indicating that the art-unit footprint is broader than the examiner footprint. At least one examiner therefore handles more than one matter, although the data does not identify any additional repeated assignment.
CALANDRA, ANTHONY J is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That assignment is a useful point for examiner-specific comparison, while the wider art-unit distribution calls for separate review of technical and procedural issues. Counsel should coordinate portfolio themes without treating the docket as a single examination pathway.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (22%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (44%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | 2 | 62.9% | +18.6% |
| BIDWELL, JAMES R | 1 | 89.7% | +8.3% |
| PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC | 1 | 42.8% | +47.6% |
| RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 1 | 78.4% | +15.8% |
| NGUYEN, TAM M | 1 | 77.1% | +11.7% |
| SAWYER, JENNIFER C | 1 | 68.4% | -8.2% |
| PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 1 | 47.5% | +41.3% |
| HEINCER, LIAM J | 1 | 55.8% | +26.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18009081 | A WOOD-DERIVED CARBOHYDRATE COMPOSITION | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 49d |
| 18031207 | A METHOD FOR PREPARING MODIFIED PULP | CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | 61d |
| 19120037 | ELIMINATING FORMATION OF BUILDUPS IN A CONVEYOR | BIDWELL, JAMES R | — |
| 17607961 | CELLULOSE MATERIAL PLASTICIZATION AND VISCOSITY CONTROLLED CELLULOSIC MATERIAL | CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18853970 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOVERING WOOD PARTICLES FROM A WOOD-BASED FEEDSTOCK COMPRISING BARK | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 28d overdue |
| 18009064 | METHOD AND PROCESS ARRANGEMENT FOR IMPROVING A SEPARATION AND SOLID PRODUCT | HEINCER, LIAM J | 13d |
| 18009081 | A WOOD-DERIVED CARBOHYDRATE COMPOSITION | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 49d |
| 18031207 | A METHOD FOR PREPARING MODIFIED PULP | CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | 61d |
| 18923866 | MEDICAL GRADE NANOFIBRILLAR CELLULOSE HYDROGEL, A METHOD FOR TREATING A SUBJECT IN NEED OF TREATMENT OF BODY WITH IMPLANTABLE MATERIAL AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE MEDICAL GRADE NANOFIBRILLAR CELLULOSE HYDROGEL | PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC | — |
| 18738216 | SOLVOLYSIS PROCESS | NGUYEN, TAM M | — |
| 17607961 | CELLULOSE MATERIAL PLASTICIZATION AND VISCOSITY CONTROLLED CELLULOSIC MATERIAL | CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3651 | 1 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 3653 | 1 |
| 1771 | 1 |
| 1691 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19120037 | ELIMINATING FORMATION OF BUILDUPS IN A CONVEYOR | BIDWELL, JAMES R | 3651 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 18923866 | MEDICAL GRADE NANOFIBRILLAR CELLULOSE HYDROGEL, A METHOD FOR TREATING A SUBJECT IN NEED OF TREATMENT OF BODY WITH IMPLANTABLE MATERIAL AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE MEDICAL GRADE NANOFIBRILLAR CELLULOSE HYDROGEL | PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC | 1613 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18853970 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOVERING WOOD PARTICLES FROM A WOOD-BASED FEEDSTOCK COMPRISING BARK | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 3653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18738216 | SOLVOLYSIS PROCESS | NGUYEN, TAM M | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18293462 | RECOVERING MONO-PROPYLENE GLYCOL BY USING A DISTILLATION SOLVENT | SAWYER, JENNIFER C | 1691 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18031207 | A METHOD FOR PREPARING MODIFIED PULP | CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | 1748 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Apr 11, 2023 |
| 18009081 | A WOOD-DERIVED CARBOHYDRATE COMPOSITION | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 1738 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 49d | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
| 18009064 | METHOD AND PROCESS ARRANGEMENT FOR IMPROVING A SEPARATION AND SOLID PRODUCT | HEINCER, LIAM J | 1767 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
| 17607961 | CELLULOSE MATERIAL PLASTICIZATION AND VISCOSITY CONTROLLED CELLULOSIC MATERIAL | CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | 1700 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialUPM Corporation has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 8 examiners.
Anthony J Calandra has the most, with 2 of UPM Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
