Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 05, 2026

UPM-KYMMENE Corporation

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
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%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
Double-patenting + other1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L 1 82.6% +14.1%
CALANDRA, ANTHONY J 1 63.0% +17.8%
WALSHON, SCOTT R 1 50.8% +20.5%
KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY 1 52.3% +0.4%
PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY 1 40.0% +23.8%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18287231 METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR CONTROLLING ENZYMATIC HYDROLYSIS BY FTIR SPECTROMETRY FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L

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
18009081 A WOOD-DERIVED CARBOHYDRATE COMPOSITION PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY 49d
18031207 A METHOD FOR PREPARING MODIFIED PULP CALANDRA, ANTHONY J 61d
18287231 METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR CONTROLLING ENZYMATIC HYDROLYSIS BY FTIR SPECTROMETRY FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L
18024534 Filmic release base material with improved silicone anchorage properties WALSHON, SCOTT R

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1652 1
1748 1
1759 1
1693 1
1738 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18287231 METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR CONTROLLING ENZYMATIC HYDROLYSIS BY FTIR SPECTROMETRY FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L 1652 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 17, 2023
18031207 A METHOD FOR PREPARING MODIFIED PULP CALANDRA, ANTHONY J 1748 §103 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Apr 11, 2023
18024534 Filmic release base material with improved silicone anchorage properties WALSHON, SCOTT R 1759 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 03, 2023
18009574 A WOOD-DERIVED CARBOHYDRATE COMPOSITION KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY 1693 DPOther Final Rejection Pending Dec 09, 2022
18009081 A WOOD-DERIVED CARBOHYDRATE COMPOSITION PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY 1738 §103 Final Rejection 49d Pending Dec 08, 2022

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