Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kidde-Fenwal LLC has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units, showing broad examiner distribution with repeated art-unit coverage.
GREENLUND, JOSEPH A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Because the open actions are spread among examiners, centralized docket control should be paired with art-unit review for recurring technical or procedural issues.
The three-art-unit structure may support comparison of how related claim features are treated within the same examination groups. Counsel should still preserve action-specific arguments because the examiner assignments are distinct.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | 1 | 66.8% | +33.8% |
| KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 63.3% | +21.6% |
| SADATE-MOUALEU, MIREILLE SANDRA | 1 | 91.7% | +10.0% |
| HICKS, ANGELISA | 1 | 63.4% | +22.0% |
| SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 1 | 51.7% | +39.6% |
| ONDREJCAK, ANDREW DOMENIC | 1 | 45.8% | +43.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18812915 | CARTRIDGE WEIGHT MONITORING | SADATE-MOUALEU, MIREILLE SANDRA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18301234 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING DELIVERY OF FIRE SUPRESSANT | ONDREJCAK, ANDREW DOMENIC | 17d overdue |
| 18479779 | TENSION INDICATING DEVICE AND FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM COMPRISING TENSION INDICATING DEVICE | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18301234 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING DELIVERY OF FIRE SUPRESSANT | ONDREJCAK, ANDREW DOMENIC | 17d overdue |
| 18479779 | TENSION INDICATING DEVICE AND FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM COMPRISING TENSION INDICATING DEVICE | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 33d |
| 18969161 | LOW NOISE DISCHARGE NOZZLE | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | — |
| 18909480 | CARTRIDGE REPLACEMENT AID | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | — |
| 18812915 | CARTRIDGE WEIGHT MONITORING | SADATE-MOUALEU, MIREILLE SANDRA | — |
| 18516947 | INJECTION ASSEMBLY FOR CONTAINERS | HICKS, ANGELISA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 4 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18969161 | LOW NOISE DISCHARGE NOZZLE | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | 3752 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18909480 | CARTRIDGE REPLACEMENT AID | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 3752 | §112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18812915 | CARTRIDGE WEIGHT MONITORING | SADATE-MOUALEU, MIREILLE SANDRA | 2855 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18516947 | INJECTION ASSEMBLY FOR CONTAINERS | HICKS, ANGELISA | 3753 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18479779 | TENSION INDICATING DEVICE AND FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM COMPRISING TENSION INDICATING DEVICE | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 3752 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18301234 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING DELIVERY OF FIRE SUPRESSANT | ONDREJCAK, ANDREW DOMENIC | 3752 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Apr 16, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialKidde-Fenwal LLC has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 6 examiners.
Joseph A Greenlund has the most, with 1 of Kidde-Fenwal LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
