Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UPM-KYMMENE CORPORATION

6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (1)

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%)
5
Medium (83%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (83%)
No statute on record1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
83% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% 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
RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C 1 78.7% +15.2%
GOUGH, TIFFANY MAUREEN 1 31.2% +48.3%
FORTUNA, JOSE A 1 79.4% +9.6%
CALANDRA, ANTHONY J 1 63.0% +17.8%
PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY 1 38.1% +2.5%
HEINCER, LIAM J 1 55.5% +25.9%

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue 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
18031207 A METHOD FOR PREPARING MODIFIED PULP CALANDRA, ANTHONY J 61d
18800472 A METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR TREATING PLANT BASED RAW MATERIAL WITH AN ENZYMATIC HYDROLYSIS GOUGH, TIFFANY MAUREEN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1748 2
3653 1
1651 1
1738 1
1767 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18853970 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOVERING WOOD PARTICLES FROM A WOOD-BASED FEEDSTOCK COMPRISING BARK RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C 3653 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Oct 03, 2024
18800472 A METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR TREATING PLANT BASED RAW MATERIAL WITH AN ENZYMATIC HYDROLYSIS GOUGH, TIFFANY MAUREEN 1651 Other Non-Final OA Pending Aug 12, 2024
18757680 A BCTMP-TAILORED LOW BASIS WEIGHT SCK PAPER FOR RELEASE LINER FORTUNA, JOSE A 1748 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2024
18031207 A METHOD FOR PREPARING MODIFIED PULP CALANDRA, ANTHONY J 1748 §103 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Apr 11, 2023
18009081 A WOOD-DERIVED CARBOHYDRATE COMPOSITION PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY 1738 §103 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

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