Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 1 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kidde-Fenwal LLC is managing 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 4 actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, meaning each matter is being reviewed by a different individual. All matters are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a narrow technical focus for these filings within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit allows for a consistent technical strategy across the portfolio.
The busiest examiner, GREENLUND, JOSEPH A, holds 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the company must manage separate examiner relationships within the same art unit. This requires a strategy that maintains technical consistency while addressing the unique feedback of the 4 distinct examiners. Practitioners should note that the 1 busiest examiner pending action represents only a portion of the total workload in the 1 distinct art unit. Success across the 4 pending office actions depends on adapting to the individual styles of the assigned officials.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 | 66.6% | +34.5% |
| KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 63.3% | +21.5% |
| SADATE-MOUALEU, MIREILLE SANDRA | 1 | 91.3% | +10.5% |
| SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 1 | 51.3% | +40.0% |
| ONDREJCAK, ANDREW DOMENIC | 1 | 40.9% | +29.8% |
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 5 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18969161 | LOW NOISE DISCHARGE NOZZLE | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18909480 | CARTRIDGE REPLACEMENT AID | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 3752 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18812915 | CARTRIDGE WEIGHT MONITORING | SADATE-MOUALEU, MIREILLE SANDRA | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 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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