Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rust-Oleum Corporation has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are distributed among 3 examiners and 2 art units, showing multiple examination assignments with some concentration by examiner and technical group.
CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel should compare those two records for consistent claim treatment while keeping the remaining matters aligned with their separate examiner assignments.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL | 2 | 53.1% | +41.2% |
| ETZEL, ALAN RAYMOND | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| GRUBY, RANDALL A | 1 | 62.4% | +43.2% |
| GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | 1 | 66.8% | +33.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18657300 | SPRAY NOZZLE APPARATUS | CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL | 62d |
| 18830878 | FLUID DISPENSING DEVICE | ETZEL, ALAN RAYMOND | — |
| 18698713 | FLUID DISPENSING DEVICE | GRUBY, RANDALL A | — |
| 16270768 | Wide Mouth Spray Actuator | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18657300 | SPRAY NOZZLE APPARATUS | CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL | 62d |
| 18657357 | SPRAY NOZZLE APPARATUS | CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL | 76d |
| 18698713 | FLUID DISPENSING DEVICE | GRUBY, RANDALL A | — |
| 16270768 | Wide Mouth Spray Actuator | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 3 |
| 3754 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18830878 | FLUID DISPENSING DEVICE | ETZEL, ALAN RAYMOND | 3754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18657357 | SPRAY NOZZLE APPARATUS | CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL | 3752 | §103 | Final Rejection | 76d | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18657300 | SPRAY NOZZLE APPARATUS | CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL | 3752 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18698713 | FLUID DISPENSING DEVICE | GRUBY, RANDALL A | 3754 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 16270768 | Wide Mouth Spray Actuator | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | 3752 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialRust-Oleum Corporation has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Steven Michael Cernoch has the most, with 2 of Rust-Oleum Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
