Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nordson Corporation has 9 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 8 distinct examiners and 8 distinct art units, indicating broad dispersion with only limited repetition in examiner and art-unit assignments.
GREENLUND, JOSEPH A is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That concentration is modest, so counsel should combine targeted examiner review with matter-specific analysis across the remaining assignments. A centralized technical glossary and claim-position record may help maintain consistency, but the figures do not show whether the matters concern a common device platform.
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.
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 | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (71%) |
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 | 2 | 66.8% | +33.8% |
| MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | 1 | 67.5% | +11.6% |
| GAMINO, CARLOS J | 1 | 35.3% | +45.7% |
| GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ | 1 | 69.0% | +43.7% |
| ABU-DAYEH, TAGWA MOHAMMAD | 1 | — | — |
| KURPLE, KARL | 1 | 52.0% | +63.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18998605 | USE OF ONE OR MULTIPLE CAMERAS TO DO REAL-TIME SOLDER NOZZLE PROCESS ANALYZATION | GAMINO, CARLOS J | — |
| 18997592 | POLYMER PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROCESS OF IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ | — |
| 18851585 | FULL COVER/FINE LINES SPRAY APPLICATION | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | — |
| 18848965 | POWDER SPRAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROL | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | — |
| 18709565 | WIPER SEAL FOR PISTON OF DISPENSING SYRINGE | ABU-DAYEH, TAGWA MOHAMMAD | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18415793 | DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR COATING AN ELECTRODE | KURPLE, KARL | 8d |
| 19059508 | IMPROVED FLUID DISPENSING PROCESS CONTROL USING MACHINE LEARNING AND SYSTEM IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | — |
| 18998605 | USE OF ONE OR MULTIPLE CAMERAS TO DO REAL-TIME SOLDER NOZZLE PROCESS ANALYZATION | GAMINO, CARLOS J | — |
| 18997592 | POLYMER PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROCESS OF IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ | — |
| 18851585 | FULL COVER/FINE LINES SPRAY APPLICATION | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | — |
| 18848965 | POWDER SPRAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROL | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 2 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19059508 | IMPROVED FLUID DISPENSING PROCESS CONTROL USING MACHINE LEARNING AND SYSTEM IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 18998605 | USE OF ONE OR MULTIPLE CAMERAS TO DO REAL-TIME SOLDER NOZZLE PROCESS ANALYZATION | GAMINO, CARLOS J | 1735 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18997592 | POLYMER PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROCESS OF IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ | 1748 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 18851585 | FULL COVER/FINE LINES SPRAY APPLICATION | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | 3752 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18848965 | POWDER SPRAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROL | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | 3752 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18709565 | WIPER SEAL FOR PISTON OF DISPENSING SYRINGE | ABU-DAYEH, TAGWA MOHAMMAD | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18415793 | DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR COATING AN ELECTRODE | KURPLE, KARL | 1717 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNordson Corporation has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
Joseph A Greenlund has the most, with 2 of Nordson Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
