Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Kidde-Fenwal LLC

5 pending office actions • 1 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
§102 only1 (20%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD 1 52.6% +39.2%
GREENLUND, JOSEPH A 1 67.0% +34.8%
ONDREJCAK, ANDREW DOMENIC 1 35.7% +16.7%
BOECKMANN, JASON J 1 48.9% +28.9%
LEE, CHEE-CHONG 1 64.0% +52.9%

Interview Candidates (5)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18301234 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING DELIVERY OF FIRE SUPRESSANT ONDREJCAK, ANDREW DOMENIC 17d overdue
18183778 LOW NOISE NOZZLE ASSEMBLY FOR FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM BOECKMANN, JASON J 5d overdue
17264145 LOW NOISE NOZZLE ASSEMBLY FOR FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM LEE, CHEE-CHONG 27d
18479779 TENSION INDICATING DEVICE AND FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM COMPRISING TENSION INDICATING DEVICE SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD 33d
18479802 HOOD ASSEMBLY, METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING HOOD ASSEMBLY AND FIRESUPPRESSION SYSTEM COMPRISING HOOD ASSEMBLY GREENLUND, JOSEPH A 46d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3752 5

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18479779 TENSION INDICATING DEVICE AND FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM COMPRISING TENSION INDICATING DEVICE SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD 3752 §102 Final Rejection 33d Pending Oct 02, 2023
18479802 HOOD ASSEMBLY, METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING HOOD ASSEMBLY AND FIRESUPPRESSION SYSTEM COMPRISING HOOD ASSEMBLY GREENLUND, JOSEPH A 3752 §103 Final Rejection 46d Pending Oct 02, 2023
18301234 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING DELIVERY OF FIRE SUPRESSANT ONDREJCAK, ANDREW DOMENIC 3752 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Apr 16, 2023
18183778 LOW NOISE NOZZLE ASSEMBLY FOR FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM BOECKMANN, JASON J 3752 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Mar 14, 2023
17264145 LOW NOISE NOZZLE ASSEMBLY FOR FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM LEE, CHEE-CHONG 3752 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jan 28, 2021

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