Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
VALMET TISSUE CONVERTING S.P.A. has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 6 examiners across 4 art units, showing examiner-level dispersion within a smaller set of technical examination groups.
FRY, PATRICK B is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The current record does not identify a dominant examiner, so counsel should coordinate recurring art-unit issues while preserving separate analysis for each examiner’s objections.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRY, PATRICK B | 1 | 54.1% | +8.2% |
| DIAS, RAVEEN J | 1 | 80.7% | +17.0% |
| VERA, ELISA H | 1 | 72.4% | +26.3% |
| MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S | 1 | 54.3% | +21.7% |
| CORNETT, ROBERT D | 1 | 40.4% | +42.5% |
| SEIF, DARIUSH | 1 | 70.7% | +6.1% |
| DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 1 | 64.0% | +48.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18536706 | DEVICE WITH ROTATING BLADES, MACHINE COMPRISING SAID DEVICE, AND RELATED METHOD | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 78d overdue |
| 18716240 | EMBOSSING DEVICE FOR EMBOSSING A CELLULOSE WEB MATERIAL AND RELATED METHOD | VERA, ELISA H | 9d |
| 18577364 | SYSTEM FOR PACKING TISSUE PAPER PRODUCTS IN WRAPPING SHEETS | SEIF, DARIUSH | 28d |
| 19114121 | PACKAGING MACHINE WITH SEALING DEVICE FOR PAPER WRAPPING MATERIALS | FRY, PATRICK B | — |
| 18869407 | LINE FOR PRODUCING TUBES MADE OF WEB-LIKE MATERIAL | DIAS, RAVEEN J | — |
| 18689158 | A DEVICE FOR CLAMPING LOGS DURING CUTTING, LOG SAW COMPRISING THE DEVICE AND METHOD | MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S | — |
| 18687425 | A ROTATING BLADE DEVICE, A MACHINE COMPRISING SAID DEVICE, AND METHOD | CORNETT, ROBERT D | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18536706 | DEVICE WITH ROTATING BLADES, MACHINE COMPRISING SAID DEVICE, AND RELATED METHOD | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 78d overdue |
| 18716240 | EMBOSSING DEVICE FOR EMBOSSING A CELLULOSE WEB MATERIAL AND RELATED METHOD | VERA, ELISA H | 9d |
| 18869407 | LINE FOR PRODUCING TUBES MADE OF WEB-LIKE MATERIAL | DIAS, RAVEEN J | — |
| 18689158 | A DEVICE FOR CLAMPING LOGS DURING CUTTING, LOG SAW COMPRISING THE DEVICE AND METHOD | MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S | — |
| 18687425 | A ROTATING BLADE DEVICE, A MACHINE COMPRISING SAID DEVICE, AND METHOD | CORNETT, ROBERT D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 3 |
| 3731 | 2 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19114121 | PACKAGING MACHINE WITH SEALING DEVICE FOR PAPER WRAPPING MATERIALS | FRY, PATRICK B | 3731 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 18869407 | LINE FOR PRODUCING TUBES MADE OF WEB-LIKE MATERIAL | DIAS, RAVEEN J | 3654 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18716240 | EMBOSSING DEVICE FOR EMBOSSING A CELLULOSE WEB MATERIAL AND RELATED METHOD | VERA, ELISA H | 1748 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
| 18689158 | A DEVICE FOR CLAMPING LOGS DURING CUTTING, LOG SAW COMPRISING THE DEVICE AND METHOD | MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S | 3724 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18687425 | A ROTATING BLADE DEVICE, A MACHINE COMPRISING SAID DEVICE, AND METHOD | CORNETT, ROBERT D | 3724 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18577364 | SYSTEM FOR PACKING TISSUE PAPER PRODUCTS IN WRAPPING SHEETS | SEIF, DARIUSH | 3731 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18536706 | DEVICE WITH ROTATING BLADES, MACHINE COMPRISING SAID DEVICE, AND RELATED METHOD | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 3724 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 78d overdue | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialVALMET TISSUE CONVERTING S.P.A. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 7 examiners.
Patrick B Fry has the most, with 1 of VALMET TISSUE CONVERTING S.P.A.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
