Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kidde Technologies Inc. is currently managing 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This level of dispersion indicates that the company's active matters are spread across multiple administrative divisions within the patent office, rather than being concentrated in a single group. Such a distribution suggests that the mechanical engineering technologies being pursued are technically diverse.
KIM, CHRISTOPHER S is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 2 pending office actions. This accounts for a portion of the 4 total pending actions currently on record. The remaining actions are handled by other distinct examiners, each responsible for a single matter. Because the actions are spread across 3 art units, at least some of these units are likely handling only a single case for the company. This variety in both examiners and art units requires a practitioner to adapt to several different sets of examiner preferences and art unit norms simultaneously.
The workload for KIM, CHRISTOPHER S is higher than the other examiners in the portfolio, as he manages 2 actions while the others manage fewer. This concentration makes him the primary point of contact for a significant portion of the company's active Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering prosecution. Managing the 4 pending actions across 3 distinct art units highlights a lack of administrative consolidation for this specific portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAHASE, PAMESHANAND | 1 | 72.0% | +24.8% |
| KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 63.3% | +21.5% |
| NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | 1 | 71.5% | +19.5% |
| LA RAIA III, LAWRENCE | 1 | 72.2% | +36.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18780035 | ENERGY HARVESTING REMOTE SENSOR TELEMETRY SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR USAGE THEROF | MAHASE, PAMESHANAND | — |
| 18649149 | FIRE DETECTION AND SUPPRESSION | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | — |
| 18376295 | POWDER LEVEL DETECTION SYSTEM | NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | — |
| 18083511 | LITHIUM ION BATTERY GAS AND OPTICAL DETECTOR | LA RAIA III, LAWRENCE | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18780035 | ENERGY HARVESTING REMOTE SENSOR TELEMETRY SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR USAGE THEROF | MAHASE, PAMESHANAND | — |
| 18649149 | FIRE DETECTION AND SUPPRESSION | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | — |
| 18376295 | POWDER LEVEL DETECTION SYSTEM | NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | — |
| 18083511 | LITHIUM ION BATTERY GAS AND OPTICAL DETECTOR | LA RAIA III, LAWRENCE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 2 |
| 2689 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18780035 | ENERGY HARVESTING REMOTE SENSOR TELEMETRY SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR USAGE THEROF | MAHASE, PAMESHANAND | 2689 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18649149 | FIRE DETECTION AND SUPPRESSION | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 3752 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18376295 | POWDER LEVEL DETECTION SYSTEM | NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | 3752 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2023 |
| 18083511 | LITHIUM ION BATTERY GAS AND OPTICAL DETECTOR | LA RAIA III, LAWRENCE | 1727 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2022 |
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