Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
Valmet Oyj has 7 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The actions involve 6 examiners and 5 art units, so the portfolio spans several examination assignments despite its common technology area.
MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Most of the docket therefore remains distributed among other examiner assignments, making centralized deadline and argument tracking important for consistent prosecution management.
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 | 2 (29%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | 2 | 65.9% | +24.0% |
| GERTH, KATIE L | 1 | 75.8% | +16.6% |
| MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1 | 69.2% | +33.1% |
| ORTIZ-ORTIZ, ALONDRA MICHELLE | 1 | 25.0% | +100.0% |
| ROY, DEBJANI | 1 | 75.6% | +14.2% |
| PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 1 | 59.1% | +29.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18425221 | Refining Segment | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 50d overdue |
| 18556437 | METHOD FOR FORMING A MOLDED FIBER PRODUCT AND A MOLDED FIBER PRODUCT | ROY, DEBJANI | 13d |
| 18698037 | Refining Segment for Refiner | ORTIZ-ORTIZ, ALONDRA MICHELLE | 39d |
| 19117591 | FOLDING APPARATUS | GERTH, KATIE L | — |
| 18677231 | Unwinding section and a method of joining ends of fiber webs in an unwinding section | MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18425221 | Refining Segment | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 50d overdue |
| 18552550 | MIXING ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MIXING OF GREEN LIQUOR AND A FLOCCULATION AGENT | MINSKEY, JACOB T | 2d overdue |
| 18556437 | METHOD FOR FORMING A MOLDED FIBER PRODUCT AND A MOLDED FIBER PRODUCT | ROY, DEBJANI | 13d |
| 18698037 | Refining Segment for Refiner | ORTIZ-ORTIZ, ALONDRA MICHELLE | 39d |
| 19117591 | FOLDING APPARATUS | GERTH, KATIE L | — |
| 19016107 | Assembly for Handling Reel Spools and a Reel-up - Unwinder System for a Fiber Web Production Line | MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | — |
| 18677231 | Unwinding section and a method of joining ends of fiber webs in an unwinding section | MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3654 | 2 |
| 3725 | 2 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19117591 | FOLDING APPARATUS | GERTH, KATIE L | 3731 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 18552550 | MIXING ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MIXING OF GREEN LIQUOR AND A FLOCCULATION AGENT | MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1748 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 19016107 | Assembly for Handling Reel Spools and a Reel-up - Unwinder System for a Fiber Web Production Line | MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | 3654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18677231 | Unwinding section and a method of joining ends of fiber webs in an unwinding section | MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | 3654 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18698037 | Refining Segment for Refiner | ORTIZ-ORTIZ, ALONDRA MICHELLE | 3725 | §102 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
| 18556437 | METHOD FOR FORMING A MOLDED FIBER PRODUCT AND A MOLDED FIBER PRODUCT | ROY, DEBJANI | 1741 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18425221 | Refining Segment | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 3725 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialValmet Oyj has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Ermia Emad Melika has the most, with 2 of Valmet Oyj's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
