Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
19 pending office actions • 10 art units • 19 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fenwal Inc. has 19 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 19 distinct examiners across 10 distinct art units, indicating complete examiner dispersion and a more concentrated art-unit structure.
EDWARDS, LOREN C is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The portfolio therefore calls for substantial matter-level docket management, with art-unit coordination providing the more practical basis for identifying recurring prosecution issues.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (5%) |
| §103 only | 10 (53%) |
| §102 only | 2 (11%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (21%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (5%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDWARDS, LOREN C | 1 | 81.5% | +29.2% |
| LE, THIEN MINH | 1 | 88.1% | +8.1% |
| LE, QUYNH DAO | 1 | 33.3% | +12.1% |
| ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA | 1 | 68.1% | +31.1% |
| KIM, SUN U | 1 | 78.2% | +11.6% |
| DEAK, LESLIE R | 1 | 75.4% | +17.8% |
| SU, SUSAN SHAN | 1 | 72.0% | +23.7% |
| NAJARIAN, LENA | 1 | 38.9% | +38.9% |
| MARCETICH, ADAM M | 1 | 72.8% | +18.8% |
| COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1 | 79.0% | +15.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19002855 | Fluid Processing System with High Pressure Pneumatic Syringe Pump | EDWARDS, LOREN C | 50d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18181023 | OPTIMIZATION OF FLUID POOLING | MARTIN, PAUL C | 23d overdue |
| 18420050 | Packaging Tray for a Blood Processing Kit | COOLEY, CHARLES E | — |
| 18392123 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOVAL OF FLUID FROM A BIOLOGICAL FLUID FILTER | ROTONDI, CONNOR JON | — |
| 18539366 | Direct Drive Centrifuge | JEONG, YOUNGSUL | — |
| 17937476 | Detection Of Data Entry Errors For Blood Separation Systems | KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19002855 | Fluid Processing System with High Pressure Pneumatic Syringe Pump | EDWARDS, LOREN C | 50d overdue |
| 18920829 | THERAPEUTIC PLASMA EXCHANGE METHODS AND APHERESIS KIT FOR FLUSH AND DIVERT PRIME STAGE WHEN USING AN ADSORPTION COLUMN | LE, QUYNH DAO | — |
| 18910929 | Blood Storage Containers Made of Polyvinyl Chloride and Mixed Plasticizers | ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA | — |
| 18779848 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZATION OF PLASMA COLLECTION VOLUMES | KIM, SUN U | — |
| 18757672 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING OF WHOLE BLOOD INTO PLASMA PRODUCTS OF DIFFERENT CATEGORIZATION | DEAK, LESLIE R | — |
| 18641483 | Plasma Storage Container | SU, SUSAN SHAN | — |
| 18631510 | Device Screen Interaction Using a Scanner and Bidirectional Data Transfer | NAJARIAN, LENA | — |
| 18618801 | Systems and Methods For Controlling The Risk Of Citrate Reactions During Apheresis | MARCETICH, ADAM M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 8 |
| 1772 | 2 |
| 1653 | 2 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| 2876 | 1 |
| 3687 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19002855 | Fluid Processing System with High Pressure Pneumatic Syringe Pump | EDWARDS, LOREN C | 3746 | §102 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18966768 | Derivation Of Information From Component Of Disposable Processing Circuit | LE, THIEN MINH | 2876 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18920829 | THERAPEUTIC PLASMA EXCHANGE METHODS AND APHERESIS KIT FOR FLUSH AND DIVERT PRIME STAGE WHEN USING AN ADSORPTION COLUMN | LE, QUYNH DAO | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18910929 | Blood Storage Containers Made of Polyvinyl Chloride and Mixed Plasticizers | ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18779848 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZATION OF PLASMA COLLECTION VOLUMES | KIM, SUN U | 1772 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18757672 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING OF WHOLE BLOOD INTO PLASMA PRODUCTS OF DIFFERENT CATEGORIZATION | DEAK, LESLIE R | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18641483 | Plasma Storage Container | SU, SUSAN SHAN | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18631510 | Device Screen Interaction Using a Scanner and Bidirectional Data Transfer | NAJARIAN, LENA | 3687 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18618801 | Systems and Methods For Controlling The Risk Of Citrate Reactions During Apheresis | MARCETICH, ADAM M | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18420050 | Packaging Tray for a Blood Processing Kit | COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1774 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18392123 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOVAL OF FLUID FROM A BIOLOGICAL FLUID FILTER | ROTONDI, CONNOR JON | 1773 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18539366 | Direct Drive Centrifuge | JEONG, YOUNGSUL | 1772 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18388871 | Maximization Of Plasma Collection And Collection Of Buffy Coat Or White Blood Cell Layer Using Collected Plasma | TOWNSEND, GUY K | 3781 | §102 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18181023 | OPTIMIZATION OF FLUID POOLING | MARTIN, PAUL C | 1653 | §101 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Mar 09, 2023 |
| 18101275 | Determination Of The Concentration Of One Or More Substances In A Fluid | CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jan 25, 2023 |
| 17937476 | Detection Of Data Entry Errors For Blood Separation Systems | KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2022 |
| 17748646 | Methods and Systems for Maintaining Patient Fluid Balance During an Extracorporeal Therapeutic Cell Treatment | TRAN, NHU | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | May 19, 2022 |
| 16720840 | Methods and Systems for Platelet Cryopreservation | TICHY, JENNIFER M.H. | 1653 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2019 |
| 16488822 | Sample Tube Holder And System And Method Employing Same | ROBERTS, ANNA L | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialFenwal Inc. has 19 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 10 art units and 19 examiners.
Loren C Edwards has the most, with 1 of Fenwal Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
