Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 6 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Klein Tools Inc. has 10 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 10 distinct examiners across 7 art units, indicating broad examiner distribution with some art-unit overlap.
HOEY, ALISSA L is associated with 1 pending matter. Portfolio management should emphasize consistent treatment of recurring technical themes while preserving response flexibility for the different examiners.
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 | 3 (30%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (40%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (10%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, HOAI AN D | 1 | 86.0% | +11.8% |
| GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 1 | 64.4% | +52.1% |
| LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 1 | 72.3% | +20.4% |
| NEJAD, MAHDI H | 1 | 73.9% | +29.2% |
| SAUNDERS, ANNA JOSEPHINE | 1 | 77.4% | +14.2% |
| MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 1 | 50.7% | +42.3% |
| SCRUGGS, ROBERT J | 1 | 60.4% | +25.8% |
| HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | 1 | 68.0% | +43.4% |
| QUINN, DANIEL MICHAEL | 1 | 73.3% | +30.6% |
| EPPS, TODD MICHAEL | 1 | 72.6% | +7.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18968084 | GLOW FISH TAPE SYSTEM | NGUYEN, HOAI AN D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18216947 | Devices and Methods For Preparing Electrical Wiring | HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | 19d |
| 18819816 | Pass-through Socket Set With Impact Adaptor | GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY | — |
| 18758518 | DIGITAL ANGLE GAUGE WITH MULTIPLE LIGHT LEVEL INDICATORS | SAUNDERS, ANNA JOSEPHINE | — |
| 18141513 | CHALK LINE HOUSING WITH CARTRIDGE TEAR MOUNT | QUINN, DANIEL MICHAEL | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18622636 | Armored Cable Cutter | MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 6d |
| 18216947 | Devices and Methods For Preparing Electrical Wiring | HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | 19d |
| 18968084 | GLOW FISH TAPE SYSTEM | NGUYEN, HOAI AN D | — |
| 18819816 | Pass-through Socket Set With Impact Adaptor | GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY | — |
| 18779542 | SOLAR WIRE STRIPPER WITH NON-ALIGNED STRIPPING HOLES | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | — |
| 18763845 | Multimode Hand Tool | NEJAD, MAHDI H | — |
| 18758518 | DIGITAL ANGLE GAUGE WITH MULTIPLE LIGHT LEVEL INDICATORS | SAUNDERS, ANNA JOSEPHINE | — |
| 18609100 | MULTI-NUT DRIVER | SCRUGGS, ROBERT J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 3 |
| 2855 | 2 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18968084 | GLOW FISH TAPE SYSTEM | NGUYEN, HOAI AN D | 2858 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18819816 | Pass-through Socket Set With Impact Adaptor | GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18779542 | SOLAR WIRE STRIPPER WITH NON-ALIGNED STRIPPING HOLES | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18763845 | Multimode Hand Tool | NEJAD, MAHDI H | 3723 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18758518 | DIGITAL ANGLE GAUGE WITH MULTIPLE LIGHT LEVEL INDICATORS | SAUNDERS, ANNA JOSEPHINE | 2855 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18622636 | Armored Cable Cutter | MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18609100 | MULTI-NUT DRIVER | SCRUGGS, ROBERT J | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18216947 | Devices and Methods For Preparing Electrical Wiring | HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | 3723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 18141513 | CHALK LINE HOUSING WITH CARTRIDGE TEAR MOUNT | QUINN, DANIEL MICHAEL | 2855 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 01, 2023 |
| 17477689 | ACCESSORY MOUNT SYSTEM FOR USE WITH ELEVATED WORK PLATFORMS | EPPS, TODD MICHAEL | 3632 | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialKlein Tools Inc. has 10 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 10 examiners.
Hoai An D Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Klein Tools Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
