Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Kidde Fire Protection LLC

4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

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%)
3
Medium (75%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (25%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (50%)
§102 only1 (25%)
No statute on record1 (25%)

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
1
Communications
25% of docket
2
Semiconductors
50% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
25% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FOXX, CHICO A 1 78.4% +30.1%
WAHEED, NAZRA NUR 1 83.8% +12.1%
LEE, HWA S 1 72.6% +2.9%
WALSH, RYAN D 1 86.9% +5.2%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18616097 TRIM ELEMENT FOR A FIRE DETECTION SYSTEM AND A METHOD THEREOF WALSH, RYAN D

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18920908 PORTABLE FIRE ALARM DEVICE AND A METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF FOXX, CHICO A
18883029 RADAR SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RADAR SYSTEM WAHEED, NAZRA NUR

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2685 1
2877 1
2852 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18920908 PORTABLE FIRE ALARM DEVICE AND A METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF FOXX, CHICO A 2685 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 20, 2024
18883029 RADAR SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RADAR SYSTEM WAHEED, NAZRA NUR Non-Final OA Pending Sep 12, 2024
18666058 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING LIFE SAFETY DETECTION DEVICES LEE, HWA S 2877 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending May 16, 2024
18616097 TRIM ELEMENT FOR A FIRE DETECTION SYSTEM AND A METHOD THEREOF WALSH, RYAN D 2852 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 25, 2024

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