Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days
Valmet Oyj has 8 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 7 distinct examiners. The workload is spread through 5 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of technical classifications for the pending applications. This suggests that the company's mechanical and transportation innovations are reviewed by several different specialized groups at the patent office.
MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is managing 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. While the majority of examiners handle a single case, this individual is responsible for 2 of the company's 8 total pending actions. The use of 7 distinct examiners for 8 actions shows a low level of examiner concentration. With 5 distinct art units involved, the prosecution strategy must account for the varying standards of multiple organizational units. Practitioners should be prepared to manage 7 separate examiner relationships across these 5 distinct art units.
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 (38%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (62%) |
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 | 63.4% | +27.5% |
| KIM, SANG K | 1 | 81.4% | +10.3% |
| MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1 | 69.3% | +33.1% |
| PLESZCZYNSKA, JOANNA | 1 | 54.4% | +28.0% |
| ROY, DEBJANI | 1 | 75.8% | +15.1% |
| STEPHENS, MATTHEW | 1 | 65.5% | +22.6% |
| PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 1 | 60.5% | +28.1% |
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 |
| 18605985 | Joint and a device for joining fiber web ends | PLESZCZYNSKA, JOANNA | 35d |
| 19132197 | A METHOD OF WINDING A WEB | KIM, SANG K | — |
| 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 8 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 |
| 18605985 | Joint and a device for joining fiber web ends | PLESZCZYNSKA, JOANNA | 35d |
| 19132197 | A METHOD OF WINDING A WEB | KIM, SANG K | — |
| 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 | — |
| 18933951 | Conical Refining Filling | STEPHENS, MATTHEW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3654 | 3 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19132197 | A METHOD OF WINDING A WEB | KIM, SANG K | 3654 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 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 |
| 18605985 | Joint and a device for joining fiber web ends | PLESZCZYNSKA, JOANNA | 1783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Mar 15, 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 |
| 18933951 | Conical Refining Filling | STEPHENS, MATTHEW | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18425221 | Refining Segment | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 3725 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
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