Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Valmet Flow Control OY currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, meaning the company's entire active prosecution is focused on 1 individual. This examiner works within 1 distinct art unit. The portfolio's current activity is limited to a single point of contact at the patent office.
MATTHEW WILLIAM JELLETT is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending action in total, Matthew William Jellett is responsible for the company's entire current workload at the patent office. This creates a direct relationship between the company and a single examiner in the mechanical engineering sector. Practitioners can concentrate their efforts on the specific requirements and tendencies of this 1 examiner.
The fact that the busiest examiner pending count is 1 reflects the total volume of pending actions for the portfolio. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution environment is highly concentrated. This allows for a deep dive into the specific standards of that unit without the need to navigate multiple administrative groups. The 1 pending office action represents the full scope of the company's current interaction with the patent office, making the relationship with Matthew William Jellett central to the portfolio's success.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JELLETT, MATTHEW WILLIAM | 1 | 80.1% | +17.3% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19145730 | A VALVE WITH A SPRING | JELLETT, MATTHEW WILLIAM | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19145730 | A VALVE WITH A SPRING | JELLETT, MATTHEW WILLIAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19145730 | A VALVE WITH A SPRING | JELLETT, MATTHEW WILLIAM | 3753 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialValmet Flow Control OY has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Matthew William Jellett has the most, with 1 of Valmet Flow Control OY's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
