Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
VALMET TISSUE CONVERTING S.P.A. maintains a portfolio with 8 pending office actions concentrated in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution strategy involves 8 distinct examiners, which matches the total number of pending actions. This distribution suggests a diversified review process across the 4 distinct art units where these matters are lodged. The use of multiple examiners across these units ensures that the company's various mechanical and medical innovations receive specialized attention from different technical perspectives within the patent office.
The 4 distinct art units indicate that while the technology area is consistent, the specific technical applications are spread across multiple specialized groups. KOTIS, JOSHUA G is the busiest examiner for the company, though this individual is only responsible for 1 pending office action. This reinforces the observation that the pending office actions are distributed broadly, with no single examiner holding a concentrated portion of the portfolio. Such a wide distribution can mitigate the risk of a single examiner's bottleneck affecting the entire portfolio's progress.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 1 | 74.2% | +57.0% |
| FRY, PATRICK B | 1 | 53.9% | +8.0% |
| DIAS, RAVEEN J | 1 | 80.7% | +17.3% |
| VERA, ELISA H | 1 | 72.2% | +26.5% |
| MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S | 1 | 54.1% | +21.3% |
| CORNETT, ROBERT D | 1 | 39.2% | +44.4% |
| SEIF, DARIUSH | 1 | 70.5% | +6.2% |
| DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 1 | 64.0% | +48.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 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 |
| 19114156 | PACKAGING MACHINE WITH SEALANT DISPENSING DEVICE | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 9d 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 6 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 |
| 19114156 | PACKAGING MACHINE WITH SEALANT DISPENSING DEVICE | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 9d 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 |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 3 |
| 3724 | 3 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19114156 | PACKAGING MACHINE WITH SEALANT DISPENSING DEVICE | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 3731 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 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 | Final Rejection | 78d overdue | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
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