Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 55 patents granted in the last 365 days
Brady Worldwide Inc. is currently navigating 9 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 9 distinct examiners, which indicates that every pending matter is being handled by a different individual. Despite this distribution of personnel, the workload is concentrated within 6 distinct art units.
KIM, SANG K is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, although this examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution across the 9 distinct examiners suggests a decentralized prosecution environment where no examiner's tendencies dominate the portfolio's outcomes. Practitioners must prepare for 9 unique examiner perspectives while operating within the frameworks of the 6 distinct art units. The ratio of 9 pending office actions to 6 distinct art units implies some overlap in the technical subject matter being reviewed.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 5 (56%) |
| §112 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, SANG K | 1 | 81.4% | +10.3% |
| LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | 1 | 64.1% | +33.8% |
| RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ | 1 | 74.5% | +7.3% |
| MEGNA FUENTES, ANTHONY W | 1 | 81.3% | +25.6% |
| DO, AN H | 1 | 90.5% | +7.0% |
| DESAI, ANISH P | 1 | 45.3% | +6.9% |
| DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D | 1 | 45.0% | -13.9% |
| DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | 1 | 57.6% | +49.6% |
| RUDDIE, ELLIOT S | 1 | 66.3% | +42.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18619277 | METHODS FOR DETERMINING WATER CONTENT OF HYGROSCOPIC SOLVENTS | MEGNA FUENTES, ANTHONY W | — |
| 18435584 | PHOTORESIST IMAGING AND DEVELOPMENT FOR ENHANCED NOZZLE PLATE ADHESION | DO, AN H | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18479180 | SILCONE TAPE HAVING IMPROVED ADHESIVE PROPERTIES | DESAI, ANISH P | 56d overdue |
| 19033075 | CARTRIDGE STABILIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | KIM, SANG K | — |
| 18967010 | GLADHAND LOCKOUT SYSTEM AND METHOD | LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17507931 | NOSE CONE VENT DESIGN FOR INHALATION DEVICE | RUDDIE, ELLIOT S | 59d overdue |
| 19033075 | CARTRIDGE STABILIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | KIM, SANG K | — |
| 18967010 | GLADHAND LOCKOUT SYSTEM AND METHOD | LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | — |
| 18619277 | METHODS FOR DETERMINING WATER CONTENT OF HYGROSCOPIC SOLVENTS | MEGNA FUENTES, ANTHONY W | — |
| 17706702 | METHOD OF JETTING A FLUID THAT IS SYNCHRONIZED WITH BREATHING | DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1788 | 2 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19033075 | CARTRIDGE STABILIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | KIM, SANG K | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 18967010 | GLADHAND LOCKOUT SYSTEM AND METHOD | LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | 3679 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18790106 | RIBBON CARTRIDGE AUTOMATIC CENTERING SYSTEM AND METHOD | RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ | 3654 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18619277 | METHODS FOR DETERMINING WATER CONTENT OF HYGROSCOPIC SOLVENTS | MEGNA FUENTES, ANTHONY W | 2855 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18435584 | PHOTORESIST IMAGING AND DEVELOPMENT FOR ENHANCED NOZZLE PLATE ADHESION | DO, AN H | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18479180 | SILCONE TAPE HAVING IMPROVED ADHESIVE PROPERTIES | DESAI, ANISH P | 1788 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 56d overdue | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18124282 | FLOOR MARKING TAPE | DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D | 1788 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Mar 21, 2023 |
| 17706702 | METHOD OF JETTING A FLUID THAT IS SYNCHRONIZED WITH BREATHING | DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | 3700 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2022 |
| 17507931 | NOSE CONE VENT DESIGN FOR INHALATION DEVICE | RUDDIE, ELLIOT S | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 59d overdue | Pending | Oct 22, 2021 |
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